List of lakes of Australia
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Natural freshwater lakes in Australia are rare due to the general absence of glacial and tectonic activity in Australia.[citation needed]
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[edit] Types
Most lakes in Australia fall within one of five categories. Excluding lakes created by man-made dams for water storage and other purposes, one can identify the following:
- coastal lakes and lagoons including perched lakes;
- natural freshwater inland lakes, often ephemeral and some part of wetland or swamp areas;
- the Main Range containing mainland Australia's five glacial lakes.[1] In Tasmania, due to glaciation, there is a large number of natural freshwater lakes on the central plateau, many of which have been enlarged or modified by hydro-electric developments;
- predominantly dry, salt lakes in the flat desert regions of the country lacking organised drainage; and
- lakes created in volcanic remnants.
A list of the notable lakes in Australia includes:
[edit] Coastal lakes and lagoons
- Lake Alexandrina in South Australia
- Blue Lake (Queensland)
- Brown Lake
- Lake Broadwater
- Lake Como
- Lake Cooloola
- Lake Cooroibah
- Lake Cootharaba
- Lake Bonney
- Dee Why Lagoon
- Gippsland Lakes in Victoria
- Glenbrook Lagoon
- Glenrock Lagoon
- Lake Illawarra
- Mallacoota Inlet
- Lake Macquarie
- Myall Lakes
- Narrabeen Lagoon
- Orielton Lagoon
- Smith's Lake
- St George's Basin
- Tabourie Lake
- Tuggerah Lake
- Lake Victoria
- Lake Weyba
[edit] Perched lakes
[edit] Freshwater lakes
- Lake Awoonga (Queensland)
- Lake Batyo Catyo (Victoria)
- Blue Lake (New South Wales)
- Boobera Lagoon
- Lake Bonney
- Lake Bryde-East Lake Bryde
- Corella Lake (Northern Territory)
- Dove Lake
- Lake Elphinstone
- Lake George, New South Wales
- Lake Hindmarsh
- Lake Nuga Nuga
- Lake Magenta
- Lake Miranda, South Australia
- Menindee Lakes
- Tarrabool Lake (Northern Territory)
- Lake Sylvester (Northern Territory)
- Lake St Clair (Tasmania)
- Wallaga Lake
[edit] Glacial lakes
[edit] Salt lakes
- Lake Amadeus in Northern Territory
- Lake Barlee
- Lake Buchanan
- Lake Cadibarrawirracanna
- Lake Carey, Western Australia
- Lake Disappointment, Western Australia
- Dumbleyung Lake, Western Australia
- Lake Dundas in Western Australia
- Lake Eyre in South Australia
- Lake Frome in South Australia
- Lake Gairdner in South Australia
- Lake Galilee
- Lake Gregory (South Australia)
- Goyder Lagoon
- Hutt Lagoon
- Lake Hart, Australia in South Australia
- Island Lake
- Lake Lefroy
- Murtnaghurt Lagoon
- Lake Mungo in New South Wales
- Lake Torrens
- Willandra Lakes in New South Wales
- Lake Yamma Yamma
[edit] Volcanic lakes
- Blue Lake, South Australia
- Lake Barrine, Queensland
- Lake Eacham, Queensland
- Little Blue Lake, South Australia
- Lake Euramoo, Queensland
- Valley Lake, South Australia
[edit] See also
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Lakes of Australia |
- List of lakes in Western Australia - a complete list of all gazetted lakes in Western Australia
- List of reservoirs and dams in Australia
[edit] References
- ^ Powell, Greg (1990). The Snowy Mountains: A bushwalker's diary. Hampton, Victoria: Macstyle. pp. 10. ISBN 1875293086.
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