Talk:Lake Argyle

Second largest artificial lake
There seems to be no discussion on this, however I don't think you can call it the largest artificial lake when you have the Lake Gordon / Pedder system in Tasmania. This is acknowledged further down in the article as Lake Argyle being the 'second largest reservoir'. This is the link to the Bureau of Statistics site on the lakes.

This may be an argument about an 'artificial lake' versus a 'reservoir'. - Ctbolt 05:05, 3 February 2007 (UTC)


 * That link is the ABS Year Book 2007. It says;


 * Australia has no natural, unmodified, permanent freshwater lake larger than 100 sq km. Many artificial lakes, or lakes expanded by artificial means, also exist in all states and territories. The combined Lakes Gordon and Pedder in south-western Tasmania are the largest of these, both in surface area (513 sq km) and volume (11,320 megalitres (ML)), while other very large artificial lakes include Lake Argyle on the Ord in northern Western Australia (5,720 ML) and Lake Eucumbene in the Snowy Mountains Scheme (4,870 ML).


 * All three cited ML figures should be Gigalitres. (513 km² and 11,320 ML or 11.32 GL gives an average depth of 0.022 metres: so it should be 11.32 Teralitres).


 * NB: the same error is in previous Year Books.


 * NB2: 1 TL = 10¹² Litre = 10⁹ m³ = 1 km³.


 * So Argyle (at 10.763 TL) is a close 2nd by volume, and (at a conservative 1,000 km²) is a clear 1st by area. MBG02 (talk) 01:20, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

Water levels
According to Department of water figures the dam is current at 97.94% capacity, exceeded capacity 4 times since June 2003 Gnangarra 03:40, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

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Traditional Owners
There is no mention in this article of the traditional owners of the land on which Lake Argyle was originally built or of the continuing pain it causes for the Miriwoong peoples. There needs to be a history section added to include the impact this had on the Miriwoong peoples. Lake Argyle country is remembered by residents living in Kununurra today and the upset that this lake caused needs to be acknowledged.
 * So fix it...
 * Or post some links here to reliable sources describing the traditional owners etc, and perhaps another editor will do it. Mitch Ames (talk) 11:42, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ Done, put at start of history section, or could have a new section on traditional owners with a bit more text on the native title decision. Hughesdarren (talk) 02:31, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

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Length and width
Max. length 67 metres (220 ft) Max. width 10 metres (33 ft) Lake Argyle is definitely bigger than this! Maybe it should be kilometres not metres. 49.196.226.163 (talk) 00:16, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

Picture form space mirrored
Can somebody please verify my observation that the picture of the lake from space is mirror imaged (flipped), and if verified, correct it? Comparing with maps, I see that in the space picture north is lower left, west upper left, south upper right and east lower right. WikiPidi (talk) 13:51, 18 January 2023 (UTC)