Lakes and other water bodies of Victoria (Australia)

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 70 hectares (170 acres):

Lake name Type Region Primary inflow Primary outflow Area Image Notes
hectares acres
Albacutya Eutrophic Wimmera Outlet Creek Evaporation 5,500 14,000 [1]
Barracoota Freshwater East Gippsland 240 590 [2]
Beeac Hypersaline Western District Lakes Evaporation 560 1,400 [3]
Boga Freshwater water storage The Mallee outfall channel to the Little Murray River 940 2,300 [4]
Bookar Barwon South West Evaporation 450 1,100 [5]
Borrie Coastal wetland Greater Geelong Little River Port Phillip Bay 70 170 [6]
Bullen Merri Brackish crater Barwon South West Evaporation 460 1,100 [7][8]
Buloke Eutrophic Wimmera Richardson River Evaporation 4,300 11,000 [9]
Burrumbeet Eutrophic Western Victoria Burrumbeet Creek Evaporation 2,300 5,700 [10]
Colac Freshwater Barwon South West Barongarook Creek Evaporation 2,800 6,900 [11]
Coleman Freshwater Gippsland Latrobe River Bass Strait 1,300 3,200 [12]
Colungulac Saline Western District Lakes Evaporation 1,500 3,700 [13]
Condah Crater lake Barwon South West Darlot Creek Evaporation 250 620 [14]
Connewarre Estuarine Bellarine Peninsula Barwon River Barwon River 880 2,200 [15]
Coorong Eutrophic Wimmera Yarriambiack Creek Evaporation 100 250 [16]
Coradgil Freshwater Western District Lakes Evaporation 78 190 [17]
Corangamite Hypersaline, endorheic Western District Lakes Woady Yaloak River Evaporation 17,000 42,000 [18]
Cundare Hypersaline Western District Lakes Evaporation 280 690 [19]
Deep Freshwater Western Victoria Evaporation 85 210 [20]
Elingamite Freshwater Western District Lakes Elingamite Creek Evaporation 300 740 [21]
Gnarpurt Saline Western District Lakes Evaporation 2,350 5,800
Gnotuk
Hindmarsh Eutrophic Wimmera Wimmera River Outlet Creek 13,500 33,000 [22]
Hume Reservoir Hume Murray River Murray River 20,190 49,900 [23][24]
Keilambete
King Freshwater Gippsland Tambo River; Mitchell River to Bass Strait 4,400 11,000 [25]
Learmonth
Logan
Marmal Wimmera Evaporation 130 320 [26]
Martin Freshwater Western District Lakes Woady Yaloak River Woady Yaloak River 2,200 5,400 [27]
Milangil Saline Western District Lakes 310
Mokoan Reservoir Hume Broken River Evaporation 9,400 23,000 [28]
Monbeong
Mulwala Reservoir Murray River Murray River 6,600 16,000 [29]
Murdeduke Saline Western District Lakes 3,800
Nagambie Reservoir Goldfields Goulburn River Goulburn River 170 420 [30]
Narracan Reservoir West Gippsland Latrobe River Latrobe River 281 690 [31]
Purrumbete Crater lake Western District Lakes Evaporation 552 1,360 [32]
Reedy Freshwater Bellarine Peninsula Barwon River Barwon River 550 1,400
Reeve Freshwater Gippsland Carr Creek to Bass Strait 5,200 13,000 [33]
Rosine
Round
Tali Karng formed by a natural landslide Alpine Snowden Creek, Nigothoruk Creek underground to Wellington River 14 35 [34]
Terangoon Freshwater Western District Lakes 208 510
Tutchewop Freshwater The Mallee Evaporation 760 1,900 [35]
Tyrrell Salt lake Mallee Tyrrell Creek Evaporation 20,860 51,500 [36]
Tyers Freshwater Gippsland Boggy Creek; Stony Creek to Bass Strait 950 2,300 [37]
Victoria (Bellarine) Saline Bellarine Peninsula to Bass Strait 139 340 [38]
Victoria (Gippsland) Freshwater Gippsland Latrobe River; Mitchell River to Bass Strait 15,000 37,000 [39]
Weeranganuk Freshwater Barwon South West Evaporation 460 1,100 [40]
Wellington Freshwater Gippsland Latrobe River; Avon River to Bass Strait 15,000 37,000 [41]
Wendouree Freshwater Goldfields Gong Gong Reservoir Evaporation 238 590 [42]
William Hovell Reservoir Alpine King River King River 113 280 [43]

See also

References

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  4. "Lake Boga: Recreational Guide" (PDF). Goulburn–Murray Water (PDF). October 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 March 2015. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
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  22. "Map of Lake Hindmarsh, VIC". Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
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  30. "Map of Lake Nagambie, VIC". Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
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  33. "Map of Lake Reeve, VIC". Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
  34. "Map of Lake Tali Karng, VIC". Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
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  40. "Map of Lake Weeranganuk, VIC". Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
  41. "Map of Lake Wellington, VIC". Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
  42. "Map of Lake Wendouree, VIC". Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
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