Talk:Lake George (New South Wales)

History
history of Lake George (Australia) which was merged here. clarkk 11:01, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
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Lake George
I'm not aware of any scientific research that suggests water can drain from Lake George into the Yass River. No water draining cracks appear on the surface of Lake George and sediment coring has revealed there are 30 meters of sediment below the current bed surface of Lake George, which have been deposited over the lakes long existence.

Lake George is a long shallow with a very small catchment; resultant evaporation rates and an ability for the wind to blow the water back on itself fully explains its mysterious filling and drying episodes on both the short term (hours) and long term (years) time scales.

The average depth of the lake even when quite full is certainly not 8 metres. It is very shallow, in most spots no more than 1 metre. This I know, because I have waded the lake when fishing it in the very early 90s when it was quite full.

Aboriginal massacre???
As a Canberra resident who has read a lot of history on the region I have not heard of an aboriginal massacre at Lake George. I feel I would have read about this massacre in the historical books, publications etc I've looked at over the years if it had much credence. I can only suggest that the existence of this massacre is doubtful. So I have removed this: "It is the site of a notorious massacre of an entire tribe of Aborigines in the nineteenth century." until somebody can find a credible reference/quote/extract to support it. Codman 00:20, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Formation of Lake George
Saw the online newspaper article on which the information on age and postulated link to outside aqufiers came from. I'm fairly certain there are inaccuracies in this article. In particular, I'm fairly certain that the Lake George escarpment that rose and formed the lake is far older than 27,000 years old. With 30 metres of accumulated sediment, the lake almost has to be older. Unfortunately I don't any ready access to authoritive references, but the 27,000 years old thing should be checked ASAP. Codman 11:14, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Lake George is much older than 27,000 years old
http://wwwrses.anu.edu.au/environment/eePages/eeCurrentResearch/research_Chappell3.html

Reveals the lake is at least 140,000 years old, and I have have definitely read it is more than a million years old. Will modify the page accordingly. Codman 11:31, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Duntroon Cadets Drowned in 1958 in Lake George
See http://www.peacebus.com/Duntroon/

Aquatic Sheep?
Say what now? Is this some sort of Australian in-joke? Could it be marked as such? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wmcduff (talk • contribs) 23:41, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Fish in lake George
In the 1960's (not sure of the year) I read an article in the "Outdoors" magazine about fishing in Lake George. The article was titled "It's true what they say about Lake George". The front cover of the magazine had a picture of two men in a dingy that was full to the gunwales with Red Fin they had caught in the lake.

In the '70s the Queanbeyan Age had an historical article about Lake George. When the lake had dried up some years ago a boy from Bungendore discovered what he thought was a body of a person in a creek that led to the lake. He told the local policeman who found it was a huge Murray Cod. The same article mentioned fishing trawlers on the lake in bygone years. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sly (talk) 04:08, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Size
The article states that the lake holds 5e8m3 in contradiction to the infobox which indicates the capacity is less than 2.5e8m3 (based on the 1m mean depth and 1e4 x 2.5e5 m2 maximum bounding rectangle). Perhaps I'm misinterpreting the averaging method; can someone source or clarify this? Cesiumfrog (talk) 23:31, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

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Lake George, the Locality
Shouldn't the locality be a separate page 'Lake George, New South Wales'?

There are plenty of precedents for this: e.g. Little River, Victoria - the settlement and Little River (Greater Geelong) - the watercourse. TrimmerinWiki (talk) 09:46, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
 * I wasn't sure that there was enough extra material to warrant a separate page when I added the locality material. I wasn't sure at the time whether locality articles were necessarily notable, although now there are plenty of them.--Grahame (talk) 14:14, 16 August 2021 (UTC)