Lake Beeac

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Salt lake

The Lake Beeac lies to the west of the city Beeac, 19 km from Colac away in Victoria, Australia.

The 560 -acre salt lake is an important bird area in accordance with the Ramsar Convention for water birds such as the Cladorhynchus leucocephalus and recurvirostra novaehollandiae, head of hair divers and Whiskered Tern. The lake offers migratory birds food by small crabs on.

Recurvirostra novaehollandiae

Head of hair divers

Whiskered Tern

1868 salt production was built on the banks of the lake, as well as to the nearby Lake Cundare that a H. Berry from Melbourne operation several years before it was abandoned.

The lake was completely dry in 2007 and was filled by the rains of 2010.