Talk:List of lakes of Australia

earlier comment
The placing of Lake Pedder and Lake Gordon in Freshwater is spurious - they are both man made lakes, as the new Lake Pedder has little or no resemblance to the original. Lake Margaret is the same as Pedder - freshwater but modified - for a list like this I think there should be qualifications of the category - they are too simple in this list - despite the disclaimer like phrase at the head of the list SatuSuro 01:15, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Lakes on e.g. Fraser Island?
Any reason why they're not listed? e.g. Lake MacKenzie and Lake Birrabeen (both freshwater lakes AFAIK)(unsigned message)

Dams and reservoirs
I would like to suggest that all man-made structures that have resulted in a lake being formed, be removed from this list and be placed on the List of reservoirs and dams in Australia if not there already. - Shiftchange (talk) 05:58, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Good idea - support that SatuSuro 06:00, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Little Blue lake
This is not so much a lake as a open sinkhole typical of a karst kandscape. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.164.113.1 (talk) 09:00, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

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Just estimates
There is no mention of Lake Argyle WA – artificial, but still the largest freshwater lake in Australia (by area and volume).

I estimate Lake Gairdner (3rd in SA) at 3400 km² and Lake Mckay at 2900 km² (is 3494 on Wiki) – so Gairdner is probably c3900 km². Lake Yamma Yamma at 690 km² looks to be the largest in Qld.

(I’m guessing) Great Lake in Tasmania was the largest freshwater lake, before any dams were built, and was about 80 km².

I estimate 12-15% of Lake McKay is in NT. MBG02 (talk) 08:04, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

The largest in NSW looks like Lake Garnpung c380 km², and might occasionally join with Leaghur c100 km², and maybe sometimes with Mungo c80 km² (= c560 km²). MBG02 (talk) 02:12, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Lake Awoonga, Central Queensland - not ephemeral
Lake Awoonga was created on the Boyne River, Central Queensland beginning with a small dam in the 1950s, raised in further stages until a 30m dam with a spillway was built in the mid 1990s. It was raised a further 10m around 2003, increasing its capacity significantly and it has not run dry, even during severe drought at the 30m level. Raising the dam to 40m increased the dam capacity from 282,743ML to 776,854ML, an increase of more than 270%. My question is, shouldn't the word 'ephemeral' be removed from its description if 'ephemeral' means the lake can sometimes evaporate /disappear completely? Tzali (talk) 01:06, 16 October 2022 (UTC)