List of lakes of Australia

There are not many natural freshwater lakes in Australia. This is because there was not a lot of glacial or tectonic activity in Australia.

Types

their are six main types of lake in Australia:

• coastal lakes and lagoons including perched lakes;
• natural freshwater inland lakes. These are often ephemeral and part of wetland or swamp areas;
• glacial lakes
• salt lakes, usually dry, in the flat desert regions of the country.
• lakes which have formed in the remains of volcanoes.
• lakes made for water storage and other purposes.

A list of the notable lakes in Australia includes:

Coastal lakes and lagoons

An aerial view of Lake Alexandrina, South Australia, 2004.

Landsat 7 imagery of the Gippsland Lakes, Victoria, 2005.

Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, 2004.

Tuggerah Lake as viewed from Kanwal, New South Wales, 2006.

Lake name	State/territory
Lake Alexandrina	South Australia
Avoca Lake	New South Wales
Blue Lake	Queensland
Brown Lake	Queensland
Lake Broadwater
Budgewoi Lake	New South Wales
Lake Como	Queensland
Lake Cooloola
Lake Cooroibah
Lake Cootharaba	Queensland
Lake Bonney	South Australia
Dee Why Lagoon	New South Wales
Gippsland Lakes	Victoria
Glenrock Lagoon	New South Wales
Lake Illawarra	New South Wales
Mallacoota Inlet
Lake Macquarie	New South Wales
Lake Munmorah	New South Wales
Myall Lakes	New South Wales
Narrabeen Lagoon	New South Wales
Orielton Lagoon	Tasmania
Smiths Lake	New South Wales
St Georges Basin	New South Wales and the Jervis Bay Territory
Tabourie Lake	New South Wales
Terrigal Lagoon	New South Wales
Tuggerah Lake	New South Wales
Lake Victoria	New South Wales
Wallis Lake	New South Wales
Wamberal Lagoon	New South Wales
Lake Weyba	Queensland
Lake Wollumboola	New South Wales
Wonboyn Lake	New South Wales

Perched lakes

Lake McKenzie on Fraser Island, Queensland is a perched lake, 2004.

Lake name	State/territory
Lake McKenzie	Queensland
Lake Wobby	Queensland

Freshwater lakes

Lake Bonney in South Australia, 2010.

Dove Lake in Tasmania.

Menindee Lakes, in New South Wales, viewed from 16,000 feet (4,900 m), 2009.

Lake name	State/territory
Lake Awoonga	Queensland
Lake Bathurst	New South Wales
Lake Batyo Catyo	Victoria
Blue Lake	New South Wales
Boobera Lagoon	Queensland
Lake Bonney (Riverland)	South Australia
Lake Bryde-East Lake Bryde	Western Australia
Lake Colac	Victoria
Corella Lake	Northern Territory
Lake Cowal	New South Wales
Lake Dunn	Queensland
Lake Elphinstone	Queensland
Lake George	New South Wales
Glenbrook Lagoon	New South Wales
Lake Hindmarsh	Victoria
Lake Magenta	Western Australia
Lake Miranda	South Australia
Menindee Lakes	New South Wales
Narran Lakes	New South Wales
Lake Nuga Nuga	Queensland
Tarrabool Lake	Northern Territory
Lake Sylvester	Northern Territory
Lake St Clair	Tasmania
Wallaga Lake	New South Wales
Lake Woytchugga	New South Wales

Glacial lakes

Lake Cootapatamba, New South Wales, 2008.

Lake name	State/territory
Blue Lake	New South Wales
Club Lake	Australian Antarctic Territory
Dove Lake	Tasmania
Headley Tarn
Lake Albina	New South Wales
Lake Cootapatamba	New South Wales
Lake Selina	Tasmania

Salt lakes

Lake Buchanan, Queensland, as seen from space, 2010.

Lake Eyre, South Australia, 2007.

Lake Mungo, part of the Willandra Lakes, New South Wales, 2005.

Lake name	State/territory
Lake Amadeus	Northern Territory
Lake Barlee	Western Australia
Lake Buchanan	Queensland
Lake Cadibarrawirracanna	South Australia
Lake Carey	Western Australia
Lake Disappointment	Western Australia
Dumbleyung Lake	Western Australia
Lake Dundas	Western Australia
Lake Eyre	South Australia
Lake Frome	South Australia
Lake Gairdner	South Australia
Lake Galilee	Queensland
Lake Gregory	South Australia
Goyder Lagoon	South Australia
Hutt Lagoon	Western Australia
Lake Hart	South Australia
Island Lake
Lake Lefroy	Western Australia
Murtnaghurt Lagoon	Victoria
Lake Mungo	New South Wales
Lake Torrens	South Australia
Lake Urana	New South Wales
Willandra Lakes	New South Wales
Lake Yamma Yamma	Queensland

Volcanic lakes

Blue Lake near Mount Gambier, South Australia, 2009.

Lake name	State/territory
Blue Lake	South Australia
Lake Barrine	Queensland
Lake Eacham	Queensland
Lake Euramoo	Queensland
Valley Lake	South Australia

Related pages

• List of reservoirs and dams in Australia