Lakes and other water bodies of Victoria (Australia)

The following is a list of naturally occurring lakes and other water bodies in Victoria, Australia; outside the Greater Melbourne area, in alphabetical order, for those lakes with a surface area greater than 70 hectares (170 acres):

Lake name	Type	Region	Primary inflow	Primary outflow	Area		Image	Notes
					hectares	acres
Albacutya	Eutrophic	Wimmera	Outlet Creek	Evaporation	5,500	14,000		[1]
Barracoota	Freshwater	East Gippsland			240	590		[2]
Beeac	Hypersaline	Western District Lakes		Evaporation	560	1,400		[3]
Boga	Freshwater water storage	The Mallee		outfall channel to the Little Murray River	940	2,300		[4]
Bookar		Barwon South West		Evaporation	450	1,100		[5]
Borrie	Coastal wetland	Greater Geelong	Little River	Port Phillip Bay	70	170		[6]
Bullen Merri	Brackish crater	Barwon South West		Evaporation	460	1,100		[7][8]
Buloke	Eutrophic	Wimmera	Richardson River	Evaporation	4,300	11,000		[9]
Burrumbeet	Eutrophic	Western Victoria	Burrumbeet Creek	Evaporation	2,300	5,700		[10]
Colac	Freshwater	Barwon South West	Barongarook Creek	Evaporation	2,800	6,900		[11]
Coleman	Freshwater	Gippsland	Latrobe River	Bass Strait	1,300	3,200		[12]
Colungulac	Saline	Western District Lakes		Evaporation	1,500	3,700		[13]
Condah	Crater lake	Barwon South West	Darlot Creek	Evaporation	250	620		[14]
Connewarre	Estuarine	Bellarine Peninsula	Barwon River	Barwon River	880	2,200		[15]
Coorong	Eutrophic	Wimmera	Yarriambiack Creek	Evaporation	100	250		[16]
Coradgil	Freshwater	Western District Lakes		Evaporation	78	190		[17]
Corangamite	Hypersaline, endorheic	Western District Lakes	Woady Yaloak River	Evaporation	17,000	42,000		[18]
Cundare	Hypersaline	Western District Lakes		Evaporation	280	690		[19]
Deep	Freshwater	Western Victoria		Evaporation	85	210		[20]
Elingamite	Freshwater	Western District Lakes	Elingamite Creek	Evaporation	300	740		[21]
Gnarpurt	Saline	Western District Lakes		Evaporation	2,350	5,800
Gnotuk
Hindmarsh	Eutrophic	Wimmera	Wimmera River	Outlet Creek	13,500	33,000		[22]
Hume	Reservoir	Hume	Murray River	Murray River	20,190	49,900		[23][24]
Keilambete
King	Freshwater	Gippsland	Tambo River; Mitchell River	to Bass Strait	4,400	11,000		[25]
Learmonth
Logan
Marmal		Wimmera		Evaporation	130	320		[26]
Martin	Freshwater	Western District Lakes	Woady Yaloak River	Woady Yaloak River	2,200	5,400		[27]
Milangil	Saline	Western District Lakes				310
Mokoan	Reservoir	Hume	Broken River	Evaporation	9,400	23,000		[28]
Monbeong
Mulwala	Reservoir		Murray River	Murray River	6,600	16,000		[29]
Murdeduke	Saline	Western District Lakes				3,800
Nagambie	Reservoir	Goldfields	Goulburn River	Goulburn River	170	420		[30]
Narracan	Reservoir	West Gippsland	Latrobe River	Latrobe River	281	690		[31]
Purrumbete	Crater lake	Western District Lakes		Evaporation	552	1,360		[32]
Reedy	Freshwater	Bellarine Peninsula	Barwon River	Barwon River	550	1,400
Reeve	Freshwater	Gippsland	Carr Creek	to Bass Strait	5,200	13,000		[33]
Rosine
Round
Tali Karng	formed by a natural landslide	Alpine	Snowden Creek, Nigothoruk Creek	underground to Wellington River	14	35		[34]
Terangoon	Freshwater	Western District Lakes			208	510
Tutchewop	Freshwater	The Mallee		Evaporation	760	1,900		[35]
Tyrrell	Salt lake	Mallee	Tyrrell Creek	Evaporation	20,860	51,500		[36]
Tyers	Freshwater	Gippsland	Boggy Creek; Stony Creek	to Bass Strait	950	2,300		[37]
Victoria (Bellarine)	Saline	Bellarine Peninsula		to Bass Strait	139	340		[38]
Victoria (Gippsland)	Freshwater	Gippsland	Latrobe River; Mitchell River	to Bass Strait	15,000	37,000		[39]
Weeranganuk	Freshwater	Barwon South West		Evaporation	460	1,100		[40]
Wellington	Freshwater	Gippsland	Latrobe River; Avon River	to Bass Strait	15,000	37,000		[41]
Wendouree	Freshwater	Goldfields	Gong Gong Reservoir	Evaporation	238	590		[42]
William Hovell	Reservoir	Alpine	King River	King River	113	280		[43]

See also

• Lakes and Reservoirs in Melbourne

References

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