Tooms Lake Explained

Type:town
Tooms Lake
State:tas
Coordinates:-42.2333°N 195°W
Pushpin Label Position:right
Lga:Northern Midlands, Southern Midlands, Glamorgan-Spring Bay
Region:Central, South-east
Postcode:7209
Pop:nil
Pop Year:2016 census
Pop Footnotes:[1]
Elevation:464
Stategov:Lyons
Fedgov:Lyons
Dist1:83
Dir1:N
Location1:Hobart
Location2:Triabunna
Dist2:47
Dir2:N
Near-Nw:Ross
Near-N:Swansea
Near-Ne:Swansea, Lake Leake
Near-E:Little Swanport
Near-W:Lemont, Ross
Near-Sw:Lemont
Near-S:Lemont
Near-Se:Triabunna

Tooms Lake is a rural locality and a lake in the local government areas (LGA) of Northern Midlands, Southern Midlands, and Glamorgan-Spring Bay in the Central and South-east LGA regions of Tasmania. The locality is about north of the town of Triabunna. The 2016 census has a population of nil for the state suburb of Tooms Lake.[1]

The lake is artificial and shallow,[2] covering 6.6km2.[3]

The lake was once a wetland and was an Aboriginal meeting place.[4] The indigenous name for this place was moyantaliah (moy.en.tel.eea).[5]

The lake can hold 25.362 gigaliters of water.[6] The catchment area is 60.2 km2. It is drained by the Tooms River, which flows into the Macquarie River. The lake is reached by the gravel Tooms Lake Road,[7] 83 km from Hobart.[8] Seaplanes land on the lake several times per year.[9]

The lake is used for recreational fishing, for brown and rainbow trout.[10] Brown trout were introduced in 1904 and rainbow trout were released around 1908. Trout are usually 1kgtoNaNkgkg (02lbto-2,147,483,648lbkg) with the largest NaNkg (-2,147,483,648lb).[3] Kuth Energy is drilling a geothermal energy exploration borehole in the area called Tooms1.[11]

Other creatures found in Tooms Lake are Galaxias maculatus or jollytail.

Amenities

Amenities include a camping ground, boat ramp, public toilet and rubbish bin. There are no shops or public phone service.[12] The lake is 468 m above sea level.[13]

Water flowing from the Tooms Lake has an average electrical conductivity of 74 μS/cm.[14]

Align:left
Tooms Lake
Pushpin Map:Tasmania
Image Bathymetry:Tooms Lake map.png
Caption Bathymetry:map with settlement
Coords:-42.232°N 147.796°W
Inflow:Jimmys Creek
Outflow:Tooms River
Catchment:60.2km2
Basin Countries:Australia
Area:6.6km2
Elevation:468m (1,535feet)
Islands:none
Frozen:no

History

On 6 December 1828 a massacre of Aboriginal Tasmanians occurred, in which ten were killed by nine soldiers from the 40th regiment.[15] John Danvers, the guide of the group, reported to the Oatlands police magistrate:

One of them getting up from a small fire to a large one, discovered us and gave the alarm to the rest, and the whole of them up immediately and attempted to take up their spears in defence, and seeing that, we immediately fired and repeated it because we saw they were on the defensive part, they were about twenty in Number and several of whom were killed, two only were, unfortunately taken alive.
A woman and a boy were captured and the rest of the group escaped.[16]

The dam on the lake was built by 40 men.

Tooms Lake is a confirmed locality.[17]

Geography

The Little Swanport River forms part of the southern boundary. The lake is fully contained within the locality.

Resources

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2016 Census Quick Stats Tooms Lake (Tas.) . . 23 October 2017 . quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au . Australian Bureau of Statistics . 13 September 2020 .
  2. R L Croome and P A Tylor: Phytoplankton biomass and primary productivity of Lake Leake and Tooms Lake, Tasmania
  3. Web site: Archived . 2023-05-23 . search.frdc.com.au . https://web.archive.org/web/20110706104052/http://search.frdc.com.au/search/cache.cgi?collection=ifc&doc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ifc.tas.gov.au%2Fpdf%2520files%2FTooms%2520%2520FPA.pdf.pan.txt . 2011-07-06.
  4. Book: Plomley. Brian. Friendly Mission. 2008. Quintus. Hobart. 9780977557226. 2.
  5. Book: Plomley. Brian. Tasmanian Aboriginal place names. 1992. QVMAG. Hobart. 40.
  6. http://www.northmidlands.tas.gov.au/lakes/lake.asp?lake=2&styled=y Lake Levels Database
  7. Web site: Tooms Lake suburb profile . www.domain.com.au . 22 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110615181854/http://www.domain.com.au/Public/suburbprofile.aspx?mode=research&searchTerm=Tooms%20Lake . 15 June 2011 . dead.
  8. Web site: Welcome to Tooms Lake(7209) . https://web.archive.org/web/20120325060436/http://myboot.com.au/7209/Tooms%20Lake/suburb.aspx . 2012-03-25 .
  9. http://www.abc.net.au/rural/tas/stories/s764358.htm TAS Country Hour | ABC Rural (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
  10. http://www.ifs.tas.gov.au/ifs/IFSDatabaseManager/WatersDatabase/tooms-lake Tooms Lake — IFS Portal
  11. Web site: Business | the Australian.
  12. http://www.mast.tas.gov.au/domino/mast/facweb.nsf/v-web-facilities-area/6F590803F098E786CA256BBF0027A9C0?OpenDocument Facilities - Tooms Lake
  13. http://www.weatherzone.com.au/station.jsp?lt=site&lc=92079&list=rb Tooms Lake daily rain summaries
  14. Web site: Macquarie Catchment . 12 September 2008 . 10 August 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080810115110/http://www.dpiw.tas.gov.au/inter.nsf/Attachments/WWEB-64P8A8/$FILE/STH%20ESK%20BASIN%207%20Macquarie%201.pdf . dead .
  15. News: The Country Post. 13 Dec 1828. The Hobart Town Courier.
  16. "Abduction and Multiple Killings of Aborigines in Tasmania:1804-1835" by Lyndall Ryan in Electronic Encyclopedia of Genocide and Massacre
  17. Web site: Placenames Tasmania – Tooms Lake . . Placenames Tasmania . 13 September 2020 . Select “Search”, enter "38090G", click “Search”, select row, map is displayed, click “Details”.