Lake-Torrens-Nationalpark

The Lake Torrens National Park is a national park in the center of the Australian state of South Australia, 345 kilometers north of Adelaide, about 180 km north of Port Augusta and about 65 km west of Leigh Creek. The National Park includes the Lake Torrens, the second largest salt lake in Australia.

Geology and provincial nature

The Torrens Lake with 5,700 sq km area is an endorheic salt lake in the same grave breach as the Spencer Gulf in the south. Usually, the lake is only a dry salt flat. In the last 150 years, he was once filled with water.

Discovery

The salt lake was discovered in 1839 by Edward John Eyre, who held him for the western part of a huge, horseshoe-shaped salt pan which enclosed the Flinders Ranges in the north and made ​​every access impossible. It was not until almost 20 years later, in March 1858, AC Gergory reached the Flinders Ranges from the north and later in the same year took a guided Benjamin H. Babbage and Peter Warburton expedition of the Northwest ( at the present town of Marree ) in the mountains. Eyres " Horseshoe " was actually from the Lake Frome, Lake Callabonna, Lake Blanche, Lake Gregory, Lake Eyre South and Lake Torrens.

Driveway

Access to the lake is only possible with special government approval. The best way is from the west via Roxby Downs and Andamooka, where there are opal fields. Andamooka is also of Leigh Creek Lyndhurst about to reach Farina Ruins and Mulgaria station from the northeast.