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The lake is approximately 30 metres (98 ft) above sea level, [4] with a maximum depth of 1 m. [3] It is located within the boundaries of Lake Torrens National Park. [5] Lake Torrens stretches approximately 250 kilometres (155 mi) in length [1] and 30 kilometres (19 mi) in average width.
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. The park's landscape provides opportunities for photography and studying geology. The national park is located ...
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.
Kuyani woman Regina McKenzie said that the Kuyani were "the law holders of what anthropologists would call the lake's culture people". [2] The Kuyani around Beltana and Leigh Creek were known as the Adjnjakujani from a word, adjna meaning "hill," while those near Lake Torrens were called plainspeople (Wartakujani.) [1] Their neighbours to the ...
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.
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.
Yadlamalka lies at the southern tip of Lake Torrens within the Pastoral Unincorporated Area, 60 kilometres north of Port Augusta. The area is an arid plain between the Flinders Ranges and Lake Torrens, and exhibits some salt flats.
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.