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Lake Eyre in 1990, as seen from the Space Shuttle Columbia. The 2009 Lake Eyre flood peaked at 1.5 m (5 ft) deep in late May, which is a quarter of its maximum recorded depth of 6 m (20 ft). 9 km 3 (2 cu mi) of water crossed the Queensland–South Australian border with most of it coming from massive floods in the Georgina River.
Lake Eyre is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located about 718 kilometres (446 miles) north of the state capital of Adelaide and 134 kilometres (83 miles) north of the town of Marree and which is associated with the occasional body of water known as Lake Eyre.
The Lake Eyre basin (/ ɛər / AIR) is a drainage basin that covers just under one-sixth of all Australia.It is the largest endorheic basin in Australia and amongst the largest in the world, covering about 1,200,000 square kilometres (463,323 sq mi), including much of inland Queensland, large portions of South Australia and the Northern Territory, and a part of western New South Wales.
The Warburton River (or Warburton Creek) is a freshwater stream in the far north of South Australia that flows southwest and discharges into the eastern side of Lake Eyre. It is one of the state's largest rivers, and is part of the Lake Eyre Basin .
Its source is near Mount Rose in the northern Flinders Ranges and it discharges into the south-eastern side of the northern part of Lake Eyre. [2] The river was named by the British explorer, Edward John Eyre on 27 August 1840 after Captain Edward Frome who was the Surveyor General of South Australia at the time. [3]
Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre National Park (formerly Lake Eyre National Park) is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia. It is located 697 km north of the state capital of Adelaide within the gazetted locality of Lake Eyre. [3] It contains both the North and South sections of Lake Eyre as well as sections of the Tirari Desert. [4]
Dumbleyung Lake Nature Reserve: 5,200 12,849: 18: Lake Dundas: Saline: Goldfields-Esperance: 19: Forrestdale Lake: Brackish seasonal groundwater: Perth: Forrestdale Lake Nature Reserve; Forrestdale and Thomsons Lakes Ramsar Site: 245 605 [45] 20: Lake Gore: Seasonal freshwater: Goldfields-Esperance: Lake Gore Nature Reserve; Lake Gore Ramsar ...
A false-colour satellite photo of Australia's Lake Eyre Image credit: NASA's Earth Observatory. Lake Eyre Basin (Queensland, New South Wales, Northern Territory, South Australia), which drains into the highly variable Lake Eyre and includes Lake Frome. Lake Gairdner (South Australia) Lake Torrens (South Australia) Lake Corangamite (western ...