Lake Terang Explained

Lake Terang was a lake near Terang, Victoria. Following European settlement of the area surrounding the lake in the 19th century the lake began to dry out. It was drained in the 1960s^[1] and is now used as a recreation area, for agriculture and as part of the Terang Golf Course.^{[2] [3]}

The sediments of Lake Terang go back 350,000 years and are of significant interest for palaeoecology and the geologic history of western Victoria.^{[4] [5] [6]}

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-38.25°N 197°W

Notes and References

1. http://www.corangamite.vic.gov.au/index.php/council-services/environmental-management/environmental-places-of-interest#TerangPark the former Lake Terang that was drained for public health reasons in the early 1960s
2. http://www.smh.com.au/news/victoria/terang/2005/02/17/1108500207466.html Terang - Victoria - Australia - Travel
3. http://www.standard.net.au/story/3240867/water-returns-to-lake-terang/ Water returns to Lake Terang under revitalisation project
4. http://vro.agriculture.vic.gov.au/dpi/vro/glenregn.nsf/pages/gh_eruption_points_terang Lake Terang - OLD
5. D'Costa . D.M. . Kershaw . A.P. . A Late Pleistocene and Holocene pollen record from Lake Terang, Western Plains of Victoria, Australia . Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology . January 1995 . 113 . 1 . 57–67 . 10.1016/0031-0182(95)00062-Q . 1995PPP...113...57D .
6. https://web.archive.org/web/20120318185110/http://www.aqua.org.au/AQUA/meetings/Bowlerfest/Kershaw.html The last million years around Lake Keilambete