Lake Euramoo
The Lake Euramoo is a maar in northern Queensland, Australia. The Maar in Atherton Tablelands originated about 10,000 years ago as the red-hot magma came into contact with groundwater and caused an explosion. The resulting crater was filled later with rain water.
Description of the Lake
The crystal clear lake is not the typical round shape of the crater lakes, but a dumbbell. This unusual shape was created by the overlap of two craters that may have arisen at the same time.
The area around the lake is determined by the timber industry, having penetrated into the 1880s, European settlers to the area. The vegetation on the lake consists of subalpine rainforest or was planted with original rain forest plants and the Guinea - araucaria (Araucaria cunninghamii ) and exotic conifers.
The maar is located in Danbulla National Park, a park in the Wet Tropics of Queensland, registered in the list of UNESCO World Heritage.
Aboriginal
In the area of the National Park for thousands of years lived the Aborigines of Ngadjonji that have preserved the emergence of this and other crater lakes of their country in their oral tradition over 10,000 years: It is said that two newly -initiated men broke a taboo and angered the rainbow serpent, major spirit of the area ... As a result ' the camping -place began to change, the earth under the camp roaring like thunder. The wind started to blow down, as if a cyclone were coming. The camping -place began to twist and crack. While this what happening there something in the sky a red cloud, of a hue never seen before. The people tried to run from side to side but were swallowed by a crack Which opened in the ground ' ....
According to the ideas of the local Aboriginal Dreamtime Rainbow Serpent formed the earth, where they created the four that are close together Maare Lake Eacham, Lake Barrine, Mount Hypipamee Crater Lake, including the Euromoo with underground connections. This has not been confirmed by dives. The maar is called by the Aborigines of Yidinji Ngimun and from the neighboring Ngadjonji nutation.