Lakes and other water bodies of Victoria (Australia) explained

The following is a list of naturally occurring lakes and other water bodies in Victoria, Australia; outside the Greater Melbourne area, in alphabetical order, for those lakes with a surface area greater than :

Lake name	Type	Region	Primary inflow	Primary outflow	Area	Image	Notes
hectares	acres
Albacutya	Eutrophic	Wimmera	Outlet Creek	Evaporation	5500ha		^[1]
Barracoota	Freshwater	East Gippsland			240ha		^[2]
Beeac	Hypersaline	Western District Lakes		Evaporation	560ha		^[3]
Boga	Freshwater water storage	The Mallee		outfall channel to the Little Murray River	940ha		^[4]
Bookar		Barwon South West		Evaporation	450ha		^[5]
Borrie	Coastal wetland	Greater Geelong	Little River	Port Phillip Bay	70ha		^[6]
Bullen Merri	Brackish crater	Barwon South West		Evaporation	460ha		^[7] ^[8]
Buloke	Eutrophic	Wimmera	Richardson River	Evaporation	4300ha		^[9]
Burrumbeet	Eutrophic	Western Victoria	Burrumbeet Creek	Evaporation	2300ha		^[10]
Colac	Freshwater	Barwon South West	Barongarook Creek	Evaporation	2800ha		^[11]
Coleman	Freshwater	Gippsland	Latrobe River	Bass Strait	1300ha		^[12]
Colungulac	Saline	Western District Lakes		Evaporation	1500ha		^[13]
Condah	Crater lake	Barwon South West	Darlot Creek	Evaporation	250ha		^[14]
Connewarre	Estuarine	Bellarine Peninsula	Barwon River	Barwon River	880ha		^[15]
Coorong	Eutrophic	Wimmera	Yarriambiack Creek	Evaporation	100ha		^[16]
Coradgil	Freshwater	Western District Lakes		Evaporation	78ha		^[17]
Corangamite	Hypersaline, endorheic	Western District Lakes	Woady Yaloak River	Evaporation	17000ha		^[18]
Cundare	Hypersaline	Western District Lakes		Evaporation	280ha		^[19]
Deep	Freshwater	Western Victoria		Evaporation	85ha		^[20]
Elingamite	Freshwater	Western District Lakes	Elingamite Creek	Evaporation	300ha		^[21]
Gnarpurt	Saline	Western District Lakes		Evaporation	2350ha
Gnotuk
Hindmarsh	Eutrophic	Wimmera	Wimmera River	Outlet Creek	13500ha		^[22]
Hume	Reservoir	Hume	Murray River	Murray River	20190ha		^[23] ^[24]
Keilambete
King	Freshwater	Gippsland	Tambo River	to Bass Strait	4400ha		^[25]
Learmonth
Logan
Marmal		Wimmera		Evaporation	130ha		^[26]
Martin	Freshwater	Western District Lakes	Woady Yaloak River	Woady Yaloak River	2200ha		^[27]
Milangil	Saline	Western District Lakes			125ha
Mokoan	Reservoir	Hume	Broken River	Evaporation	9400ha		^[28]
Monbeong
Mulwala	Reservoir		Murray River	Murray River	6600ha		^[29]
Murdeduke	Saline	Western District Lakes			1550ha
Nagambie	Reservoir	Goldfields	Goulburn River	Goulburn River	170ha		^[30]
Narracan	Reservoir	West Gippsland	Latrobe River	Latrobe River	281ha		^[31]
Purrumbete	Crater lake	Western District Lakes		Evaporation	552ha		^[32]
Reedy	Freshwater	Bellarine Peninsula	Barwon River	Barwon River	550ha
Reeve	Freshwater	Gippsland	Carr Creek	to Bass Strait	5200ha		^[33]
Rosine
Round
Tali Karng	formed by a natural landslide	Alpine	Snowden Creek, Nigothoruk Creek	underground to Wellington River	14ha		^[34]
Terangoon	Freshwater	Western District Lakes			208ha
Tutchewop	Freshwater	The Mallee		Evaporation	760ha		^[35]
Tyrrell	Salt lake	Mallee	Tyrrell Creek	Evaporation	20860ha		^[36]
Tyers	Freshwater	Gippsland	Boggy Creek; Stony Creek	to Bass Strait	950ha		^[37]
Victoria (Bellarine)	Saline	Bellarine Peninsula		to Bass Strait	139ha		^[38]
Victoria (Gippsland)	Freshwater	Gippsland	Latrobe River; Mitchell River	to Bass Strait	15000ha		^[39]
Weeranganuk	Freshwater	Barwon South West		Evaporation	460ha		^[40]
Wellington	Freshwater	Gippsland		to Bass Strait	15000ha		^[41]
Wendouree	Freshwater	Goldfields	Gong Gong Reservoir	Evaporation	238ha		^[42]
William Hovell	Reservoir	Alpine	King River	King River	113ha		^[43]

See also

• Lakes and Reservoirs in Melbourne

Notes and References

1. News: Parched lake may end 15-year dry. The Age. Ker, Peter. 25 January 2011. 28 October 2014.
2. Web site: Map of Lake Barracoota, VIC . Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia . 6 January 2014 .
3. Web site: Map of Lake Beeac, VIC. Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. 27 October 2014 .
4. Web site: Lake Boga: Recreational Guide. Goulburn–Murray Water. PDF. October 2012. 7 November 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20150321072101/http://www.g-mwater.com.au/downloads/Storages/Boga_Sliced-small.pdf. 21 March 2015. dead.
5. Web site: Map of Lake Bookar, VIC. Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. 27 October 2014 .
6. Web site: Map of Lake Borrie, VIC. Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. 27 October 2014 .
7. Web site: Map of Lake Bullen Merri, VIC. Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. 27 October 2014 .
8. Web site: Volcanic landforms in the Camperdown area of Victoria. UniServe Science. 16 June 2007.
9. Web site: Map of Lake Buloke, VIC. Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. 27 October 2014 .
10. Web site: Map of Lake Burrumbeet, VIC. Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. 27 October 2014 .
11. Web site: Map of Lake Colac, VIC. Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. 27 October 2014 .
12. Web site: Map of Lake Coleman, VIC. Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. 27 October 2014 .
13. Web site: Map of Lake Colungulac, VIC. Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. 27 October 2014 .
14. Book: Crook, D.. Macdonald, J.. Belcher, C.. O’Mahony, D.. Dawson, D.. Lovett, D.. Walker, A.. Bannam, L.. 2008. Lake Condah Restoration Project: Biodiversity Assessments. PDF. Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research Technical Report Series No. 180. Department of Sustainability and Environment, Government of Victoria. Heidelberg, Victoria. 27 October 2014. 1835-3835. 3 .
15. Web site: Map of Lake Connewarre, VIC. Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. 27 October 2014 .
16. Web site: Map of Lake Coorong, VIC. Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. 27 October 2014 .
17. Web site: Map of Lake Coradgill, VIC. Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. 27 October 2014 .
18. Web site: Map of Lake Corangamite, VIC. Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. 27 October 2014 .
19. Web site: Map of Lake Cundare, VIC. Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. 27 October 2014 .
20. Web site: Map of Deep Lake, VIC. Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. 27 October 2014 .
21. Web site: Map of Elingamite Lake, VIC. Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. 27 October 2014 .
22. Web site: Map of Lake Hindmarsh, VIC. Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. 27 October 2014 .
23. Web site: Hume Dam. PDF brochure. State Water Corporation. 2009. 19 April 2013.
24. Web site: Hume Dam . Water delivery: dams . State Water Corporation . 19 April 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130410023713/http://www.statewater.com.au/Water%20delivery/Dams/Hume%20Dam . 10 April 2013 .
25. Web site: Map of Lake King, VIC. Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. 27 October 2014 .
26. Web site: Map of Lake Marmal, VIC. Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. 27 October 2014 .
27. Web site: Map of Lake Martin, VIC. Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. 27 October 2014 .
28. Web site: Map of Lake Mokoan, VIC. Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. 27 October 2014 .
29. Web site: Map of Lake Mulwala, VIC. Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. 27 October 2014 .
30. Web site: Map of Lake Nagambie, VIC. Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. 27 October 2014 .
31. Web site: Lake Narracan. Southern Rural Water. 27 October 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20141030135050/http://www.srw.com.au/page/page.asp?page_id=146. 30 October 2014.
32. Web site: Map of Lake Purrumbete, VIC. Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. 27 October 2014 .
33. Web site: Map of Lake Reeve, VIC. Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. 27 October 2014 .
34. Web site: Map of Lake Tali Karng, VIC. Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. 27 October 2014 .
35. Web site: Map of Lake Tutchewop, VIC. Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. 27 October 2014 .
36. Web site: Map of Lake Tyrell, VIC. Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. 27 October 2014 .
37. Web site: Map of Lake Tyres, VIC. Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. 27 October 2014 .
38. Web site: Map of Lake Victoria, VIC. Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. 27 October 2014 .
39. Web site: Map of Lake Victoria, VIC. Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. 27 October 2014 .
40. Web site: Map of Lake Weeranganuk, VIC. Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. 27 October 2014 .
41. Web site: Map of Lake Wellington, VIC. Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. 27 October 2014 .
42. Web site: Map of Lake Wendouree, VIC. Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. 27 October 2014 .
43. Web site: Register of Large Dams in Australia. Excel (requires download). Australian National Committee on Large Dams. 2010. 11 July 2014. Dams information.