Angove Lake Explained

Angove Lake
Pushpin Map:	Australia Western Australia
Pushpin Label Position:	top
Pushpin Map Caption:	Location in Western Australia
Location:	Great Southern, Western Australia
Coords:	-34.9422°N 118.165°W
Type:	Freshwater
Inflow:	Angove River
Outflow:	Gardner Creek
Catchment:	29km2
Basin Countries:	Australia
Designation:	Two Peoples Bay Nature Reserve
Length:	900m (3,000feet)
Width:	400m (1,300feet)
Area:	33ha^[1]
Embedded:	Stroke-Colour: C60C30 Stroke-Width: 3 Marker: water Marker-Colour: 1F2F57 Zoom: 15

Angove Lake is a permanent fresh water lake in the Great Southern region of Western Australia, within the Two Peoples Bay Nature Reserve.

Description

The lake is part of the Moates Lake System, along with Moates Lake and Lake Gardner.^[2] All of these lakes were linked to form a large estuarine system during the last interglacial period approximately 120,000 years ago.^[3]

The main waterbody covers a maximum area of 40ha but the associated wetlands cover an area closer to 100ha. The area south of the lake was drained with a 30NaN0 channel being constructed to connect it with Gardner Creek. The water in the lake is fresh and low in tannin, water from the river system that supplies the lake is also used pumped to Albany as part of the town's water supply.^[4]

Environment

The lake lies within the Two Peoples Bay Nature Reserve.^[5] Very little of the catchment is cleared so the stream system and the lake are in almost pristine condition. The lake itself is essentially a large sedge swamp with large stands of Baumea articulata with a fringing forest of paperbark and Agonis. The lake forms part of the Two Peoples Bay and Mount Manypeaks Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because of its significance in the conservation of several rare and threatened bird species.^[6]

The critically endangered Spotted galaxias (Galaxias truttaceus hesperius) is only found in the Angove River, the lake and the Goodga River.^[7]

See also

• List of lakes of Western Australia

Notes and References

1. Web site: Bonzle Digital Atlas – Map of Lake Angove. 2009. 4 March 2009.
2. Web site: Southern Prospects – The South Coast Regional Strategy for Natural Resource Management . 2004 . 15 October 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110219141404/http://www.southcoastnrm.com.au/files/1/files/SouthProspRS_web.pdf . 19 February 2011 .
3. Web site: Two Peoples Bay Nature Reserve Management Plan . 1995 . 8 March 2009 . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20080730213845/http://www.dec.wa.gov.au/pdf/nature/management/two_peoples_bay.pdf . 30 July 2008 .
4. Web site: Catchment Management of the Wetlands of the Two Peoples Bay Nature. 2004. 15 October 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20110221090835/http://www.greenskills.org.au/pub/two/two.pdf. 21 February 2011. dead.
5. Web site: Two Peoples Bay Management Plan 1995–2005 . 1995. National Parks and Nature Conservation Authority (WA). 2 April 2022.
6. BirdLife International. (2011). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Two Peoples Bay and Mount Manypeaks. Downloaded from Web site: BirdLife International – conserving the world's birds . 2013-05-07 . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20070710124603/http://www.birdlife.org/ . 10 July 2007 . on 18 November 2011.
7. Web site: Galaxias truttaceus hesperius – Spotted Galaxias (western subspecies), Western Spotted Galaxias, Western Trout Galaxias. Species Profile and Threats Database. 6 September 2015. Australian Government.