Lake Terang

Lake Terang was a lake near Terang, Victoria. Following European settlement of the area surrounding the lake in the 19th century the lake began to dry out. It was drained in the 1960s[1] and is now used as a recreation area, for agriculture and as part of the Terang Golf Course.[2][3]

The sediments of Lake Terang go back 350,000 years and are of significant interest for palaeoecology and the geologic history of western Victoria.[4][5][6]

References

  1. ^ the former Lake Terang that was drained for public health reasons in the early 1960s Archived 7 March 2017 at the Wayback Machine, Terang Park, Environmental Places of Interest - Corangamite Shire Council
  2. ^ Terang - Victoria - Australia - Travel, smh.com.au, ...Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet...spent much time studying the life in and around Lake Terang (now drained)...
  3. ^ Water returns to Lake Terang under revitalisation project, By Kate Zwagerman, 28 Jul 2015, The Standard
  4. ^ Lake Terang - OLD, VRO, ...Lake Terang is a dry (drained) lake just over 1 km in diameter...
  5. ^ D'Costa, D.M.; Kershaw, A.P. (January 1995). "A Late Pleistocene and Holocene pollen record from Lake Terang, Western Plains of Victoria, Australia". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 113 (1): 57–67. Bibcode:1995PPP...113...57D. doi:10.1016/0031-0182(95)00062-Q.
  6. ^ The last million years around Lake Keilambete

38°15′S 142°55′E / 38.250°S 142.917°E / -38.250; 142.917


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