Lakes and Reservoirs in Victoria (Australia)
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This is a list of lakes and reservoirs in Victoria, Australia outside the Greater Melbourne area.
- Lake AlbacutyaLake AlbacutyaLake Albacutya is in Victoria, Australia. The postcode there is 3424. It has been designated a wetland of international importance under the Ramsar Convention....
- Lake Batyo Catyo
- Lake Bookar
- Lake Bullen MerriLake Bullen MerriLake Bullen Merri is a brackish crater lake near Camperdown in Victoria, Australia. It has a maximum depth of 66 metres, with a clover leaf outline indicating that it was probably formed by two overlapping maar volcanoes. The lake is depicted in beautiful work by Eugene von Guerard...
- Lake BurrumbeetLake BurrumbeetLake Burrumbeet is a large but shallow eutrophic lake in central Western Victoria, Australia. Located 20 km west of Ballarat and 140 km west of Melbourne, the lake has been progressively emptying since 1997 and has been declared completely dry since 2004...
- Lake ColacLake ColacLake Colac is situated to the north of the Colac town centre in Victoria, Australia. The lake provides a home for the Yacht Club, Rowing Club and water skiers during the summer months and has many birds. The foreshore has a playground, boat ramp and the Colac Botanical Gardens. Midway through...
- LakeColungulac
- Lake Condah
- Lake ConnewarreLake ConnewarreLake Connewarre is a shallow estuarine lake located on the Barwon River, on the Bellarine Peninsula near Geelong, Victoria. It is adjacent to, and downstream from, the freshwater Reedy Lake...
- Lake Coradgil
- Lake CorangamiteLake CorangamiteLake Corangamite is Victoria’s largest natural lake, located near Colac in south-west Victoria, Australia in the Lakes and Craters region of the Victorian Volcanic Plains. The lake is hypersaline, and salinity levels have increased dramatically as the lake level has dropped in recent decades...
- Deep LakeDeep LakeDeep Lake is the name of many lakes. Lakes by this name include:in the United States*Deep Lake , a lake in Siskiyou County, California*Deep Lake , a lake in White River National Forest, in Colorado...
- Lake EildonLake EildonLake Eildon is the impoundment created by Eildon Weir on the Goulburn River in southern Victoria, Australia. At 3,334,158 megalitres when full, it contains six times as much water as Sydney Harbour and is the second largest water storage in Victoria after Dartmouth Dam...
- Lake Elingamite
- Lake EppalockLake EppalockLake Eppalock is a man-made lake located in North Central Victoria, Australia. It's situated on the Campaspe River between the city of Bendigo and the town of Heathcote and serves as a major water storage facility for both places...
- Lake Gnarpurt
- Lake Gnotuk
- Lake HindmarshLake HindmarshLake Hindmarsh in western Victoria is the state’s largest natural freshwater lake. The nearest towns are Jeparit to the south and Rainbow to the north.The lake has filled after more than a decade of drought, due to floods in early 2011.-History:...
- Lake HumeLake HumeLake Hume is an artificial lake in Australia formed by the Hume Weir east of Albury-Wodonga on the Murray River just downstream of its junction with the Mitta River. The small towns of Tallangatta, Bonegilla and Bellbridge are located on the shores of Lake Hume...
- Lake Keilambete
- Lake Learmonth
- Lake Logan
- Lake Marmal
- Lake MartinLake MartinLake Martin is located in Tallapoosa, Elmore, and Coosa counties in Alabama. It is a 44,000-acre lake with over 750 miles of wooded shoreline. An artificial reservoir, Lake Martin was formed by the construction of Martin Dam on the Tallapoosa River. The Martin Dam powerhouse is used to generate...
- Lake Milangil
- Lake MokoanLake MokoanLake Mokoan is an artificial lake in Victoria, Australia. It was created in 1971 when water from Broken River and Hollands Creek was diverted into Winton Swamp roughly 7 km from Benalla. The lake is characterized by dozens of dead trees emerging from its depths...
- Lake Monbeong
- Lake MulwalaLake MulwalaLake Mulwala was created in 1939 by building a dam across the Murray River between Yarrawonga in Victoria and Mulwala in New South Wales to provide irrigation water for the surrounding district...
- Lake NagambieLake NagambieLake Nagambie is a lake in Victoria, Australia. The town of Nagambie is on its shores....
- Lake NarracanLake NarracanLake Narracan is an artificial lake on the Latrobe River built to supply cooling water for the nearby brown coal fired power stations.-Location:...
- Lake PurrumbeteLake PurrumbeteLake Purrumbete is a volcanic lake located in the Western District of Victoria . Lake Purrumbete is approximately 15 km east of the town of Camperdown.The lake is a popular trout fishing spot and is a wildlife sanctuary....
- Reedy LakeReedy LakeReedy Lake, historically also known as Lake Reedy, is a shallow 5.5 km2 freshwater lake or swamp on the lower reaches of the Barwon River, on the Bellarine Peninsula near the city Geelong, Victoria, Australia. It is included in the Lake Connewarre State Game Reserve, which is managed by Parks...
- Lake Rosine
- Lake Round
- Lake Tali KarngLake Tali KarngTali Karng is the only natural lake in the Victorian Alps. It is the only deep lake in Victoria, and is 14 ha in area. Unlike alpine lakes in the Snowy Mountains, it was not created by glaciers; rather than being made 10,000 years ago, it was formed by a landslide 1500 years ago, this falling from...
- Lake Terangoon
- Lake TutchewopLake TutchewopLake Tutchewop is a lake near Kerang, Victoria, Australia. The name Tutchewop is derived from Wembawemba Kutyewap....
- Lake Weeranganuk
- Lake WendoureeLake WendoureeLake Wendouree is an artificially-created and maintained shallow urban lake located in the suburb of the same name in the city of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia...
- Lake William HovellLake William HovellLake William Hovell is a man-made lake in north-eastern Victoria, Australia. Formed by a dam on the King River, the water level in the lake can vary considerably. It is situated south of Whitfield on the edge of the Alpine National Park....