Lake Barlee

The Lake Barlee is a salt lake in the west of the Australian state of Western Australia, about 500 kilometers northeast of Perth and 240 km north- west of Kalgourlie on the border between the Local Government Areas Sandstone Shire and Menzies Shire. The Lake Barlee is has an east- west distance of about 108 km and a north- south extent of about 80 km. Normally the lake is dry. He fills on average every 10 years; then it takes a little longer than 1 year, until all the water has evaporated. Is water in the lake, this is an important breeding site for waterfowl dar.

The following settlements found on the shores of Lake Barlee Lake Barlee in the West, Cashmere Downs a few miles from the northern shore, Perinvale O / C on the peninsula, which penetrates from the south into the lake on the eastern shore and Mount Elvire. All settlements can be reached only through unpaved roads. The southern peninsula is part of the Mount Elvire Conservation Area.

History

The Lake Barlee was discovered in 1869 by John Forrest. Forrest's expedition that was searching for the already long lost Ludwig Leichhardt, sank in the mud, as if to cross the salt lake on March 19. After they had freed the horse from the mud, she painted almost a week around the lake. On March 25, Forrest climbed a hill in the area and saw from there the great expanse of the lake. He named him then to Frederick Barlee (1827-1884), Colonial Secretary of Western Australia.

The Lake Barlee was declared along with several smaller satellite lakes of BirdLife International in a 1937 km ² Important Bird Area (IBA ) because there one of the largest ever found hotbeds of Banded Stilt ( Cladorhynchus leucocephalus ) was found from the family of the avocet with 179,000 nests. Other water birds that have demonstrably been brooding on this lake, are mourning swans, Australian shelduck, rose ear ducks, bald stilts (Himantopus leucocephalus) and Rotkappendotterels (Charadrius ruficapillus ).

External links and sources

  • Commons: Lake Barlee - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Lake Barlee - WA. ExplorOz.com
  • Map of Lake Barlee, WA. Bonzle.com
  • Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas. Steve Parish Publishing Pty.. Ltd.. Archerfield QLD (2007). ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4. S. 85
Local government areas of Western Australia Shire of Sandstone Shire of Menzies
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