Lake Manchester, Queensland
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Lake Manchester is an outer suburb of Brisbane
, Australia
. It is 30 kilometres (18.6 mi) west of the CBD next to Brisbane Forest. The suburb Lake Manchester is named after the Lake Manchester Dam
constructed between 1912–1916.
Brisbane
Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. It is 30 kilometres (18.6 mi) west of the CBD next to Brisbane Forest. The suburb Lake Manchester is named after the Lake Manchester Dam
Lake Manchester Dam
Lake Manchester is built on Cabbage Tree Creek in the suburb of the same name, not far above its confluence with the Brisbane River in South East Queensland, Australia. The dam wall is a concrete gravity-section type. Its original purpose was to supplement supplies when the flow of the Brisbane...
constructed between 1912–1916.