District of Lochaber 1975 to 1996 Highland council area shown as one of the council areas of Scotland Lochaber (Scottish Gaelic Loch Abar)'s one of the 16 ward management areas of the Highland Council of Scotland and one of eight former local government districts of the two-tier Highland region. There're also earlier senses of Lochaber as a district within the county of Inverness (Inverness-shire), as a district within the county of Argyll and as simply a district of Scotland. All senses o… (More on Lochaber)