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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.
C. maculosus is endemic to the three largest dry salt lakes of inner South Australia (Lake Eyre, Lake Callabonna, and Lake Torrens), with the densest population found in Lake Eyre. [3] [5] Three habitat characteristics characterize its distribution: a surface crust, a thick layer of dry sand or clay under the crust, and a constant source of ...
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.
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.
Mundowdna was offered along with neighbouring Lake Torrens station. Together the leases occupied an area of approximately 1,260 square miles (3,263 km 2) and were stocked with 15,000 sheep, 65 horses and 18 cattle.
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 ...