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Lake Torrens stretches approximately 250 kilometres (155 mi) in length [1] and 30 kilometres (19 mi) in average width. It is Australia's second largest lake when filled with water [1] and encompasses an area of 5,745 square kilometres (2,218 sq mi). [2] [6] Usually the Lake Torrens catchment is an endorheic basin, having no outflow of water to ...
The stark wilderness and the salt lake that stretches 250km in length make up the Lake Torrens National Park. Lake Torrens is usually a dry salt flat. It has only been filled with water once in the past 150 years. Thunderstorms occasionally provide a small amount of water in the lake, when this occurs the area attracts a variety of birdlife.
Torrens Lake (with row boats) around 1889. The 470 ML (17 million cu ft) [54] Torrens Lake was created in 1881 with the construction of a weir, landscaping of Elder Park and modification of the river's bank and surrounds into an English formal park. The lake forms a centrepiece of many Adelaide events and postcard scenes.
This so-called extension of the gulf consists of a land depression and occasional watercourse known as the Pirie–Torrens corridor, and the inland waterbody Lake Torrens. The northern end of the gulf is spanned by the Joy Baluch AM Bridge between Port Augusta and Port Augusta West and further north by Yorkey Crossing.
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 ...
The Pirie–Torrens corridor is an approximately 59 km (37 mi) long intermittent watercourse that serves as the only natural outlet of Lake Torrens, a large normally endorheic salt lake in central South Australia.
Lake Torrens Station is a rural locality in central South Australia. Lake Torrens Station is located between the Lake Torrens foreshore and The Ghan railway line. The area is part of an arid plain between the Flinders Ranges and Lake Torrens, and the post code is 5713.
In 1938, boys from Prince Alfred College hired Popeye to celebrate their win in the annual "Head of the River" rowing eight race against St. Peter's College. [9]In 1942, Popeye was employed as a gunship, when police with a shotgun attempted to rid Torrens Lake of cormorants (possibly the great cormorant), which had become a pest, attacking the lake's population of swans.