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 | |
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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 | 125 | 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 | 1,550 | 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] |
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