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.

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 are 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:

Coastal lakes and lagoons

An aerial view of Lake Alexandrina, South Australia, 2004.

Landsat 7 imagery of the Gippsland Lakes, Victoria, 2005.

Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, 2004.

Tuggerah Lake as viewed from Kanwal, New South Wales, 2006.

Perched lakes

Lake McKenzie on Fraser Island, Queensland is a perched lake, 2004.

Freshwater lakes

Lake Bonney in South Australia, 2010.

Dove Lake in Tasmania.

Menindee Lakes, in New South Wales, viewed from 16,000 feet (4,900 m), 2009.

Glacial lakes

Lake Cootapatamba, New South Wales, 2008.

Salt lakes

Lake Buchanan, Queensland, as seen from space, 2010.

Lake Eyre, South Australia, 2007.

Lake Mungo, part of the Willandra Lakes, New South Wales, 2005.

Volcanic lakes

Blue Lake near Mount Gambier, South Australia, 2009.

See also

• List of lakes in Western Australia - a complete list of all gazetted lakes in Western Australia
• List of reservoirs and dams in Australia

References

External links

Media related to Lakes of Australia at Wikimedia Commons