Lake King from Shaving Point in MetungLake Tyers, Gippsland Lakes, Victoria, AustraliaTrio of pelicans at Lake Tyers, Gippsland Lakes, Victoria, Australia
The Gippsland Lakes were formed by two principal processes. The first is river deltaalluvial deposition of sediment brought in by the rivers which flow into the lakes.[citation needed] Silt deposited by this process forms into long jetties which can run many kilometres into a lake, as exemplified by the Mitchell River silt jetties that run into Lake King. The second process is the action of sea current in Bass Strait which created the Ninety Mile Beach and cut off the river deltas from the sea.
Once the lakes were closed off a new cycle started, whereby the water level of the lakes would gradually rise until the waters broke through the barrier beach and the level would drop down until it equalised with sea-level.[citation needed] Eventually the beach would close-off the lakes and the cycle would begin anew. Sometimes it would take many years before a new channel to the sea was formed and not necessarily in the same place as the last one.
In 1889, a wall was built to fix the position of a naturally occurring channel between the lakes and the ocean at Lakes Entrance, to stabilise the water level, create a harbour for fishing boats and open up the lakes to shipping. This entrance needs to be dredged regularly, or the same process that created the Gippsland Lakes would render the entrance too shallow for seagoing vessels to pass through.
Due to flooding in 2011, Gippsland Lakes experienced blooms of bioluminescent Noctiluca scintillans.[5]
The Gippsland Lakes provide a major hub for tourism, particularly for recreational boating and fishing enthusiasts.[12] The lakes network can be explored by cruise, water taxi, or boat and kayak hire. On the fringes of the lakes are several tourist towns that swell to support the tourist trade, particularly in the summer months.
Lakes Entrance is the largest of the towns on the lakes with a population of 4,500.[13] The town is well serviced with resorts, hotels and facilities. It is located with easy access to both the lakes network and the surf beach on Ninety Mile Beach, which is patrolled each summer.
Metung is a small village located on the tip of a peninsula sitting in the Gippsland Lakes, surrounded almost completely by water. It is an upmarket[citation needed] tourist destination with many dining options and artisan galleries.
Much of Paynesville’s accommodation and infrastructure are located on the network of canals. One of the key attractions is Raymond Island, known for its koala population.
The diversity of the brine waters of the lakes, surf beaches along Ninety Mile Beach and fresh water streams that feed the lakes, make the Gippsland Lakes a popular fishing destination. Local fish varieties include bream, mullet, flathead, luderick and trevally.[14] Paynesville, Lakes Entrance and Metung all offer a number of jetties, boat ramps and berthing facilities.[15]
EnvironmentEdit
The lakes support numerous species of wildlife and there exist two protected areas within: The Lakes National Park and Gippsland Lakes Coastal Park. The Gippsland Lakes wetlands are protected by the international Ramsar Convention on wetlands. There are also approximately 400 indigenous flora species and 300 native fauna species. Three plants, two of them being orchid species, are listed as endangered. The numbers of southern right whales and humpback whales using the Lake Entrance area show increases in recent years, as the populations have started to recover from illegal hunts by the Soviet Union with help from Japan in 1960s-1970s.
Burrunan dolphinsEdit
The lakes are home to about 50 of the recently described species of bottlenose dolphin, the Burrunan dolphin (Tursiops australis). The other 150 or so of this rare species are to be found in Port Phillip.[16]
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The Gippsland Lakes are a network of coastal lakes marshes and lagoons in East Gippsland Victoria Australia covering an overall area of about 354 km2 137 sq mi 2 between the rural towns of Lakes Entrance Bairnsdale and Sale The largest of the lakes are Lake Wellington Gunai language Murla 3 Lake King Gunai Ngarrang 4 and Lake Victoria Gunai Toonallook 4 The lakes are collectively fed by the Avon Thomson Latrobe Mitchell Nicholson and Tambo Rivers and drain into the Bass Strait through a short canal about 2 km 1 2 mi southwest of Lakes Entrance town centre Gippsland LakesLake Wellington Lake Victoria Lake King Lake Reeve Lake Tyers Lake ColemanThe Entrance to Gippsland LakesGippsland LakesLandsat 7 imagery of the Gippsland Lakes Lakes Entrance is visible in the top right of the image LocationGippsland VictoriaCoordinates38 00 S 147 39 E 38 000 S 147 650 E 38 000 147 650Primary inflowsAvon Thomson Latrobe Mitchell Nicholson and Tambo riversPrimary outflowsBass StraitBasin countriesAustraliaSurface area354 km2 137 sq mi Surface elevation0 m 0 ft SettlementsLakes Entrance BairnsdaleRamsar WetlandDesignated15 December 1982Reference no 269 1 Lake King from Shaving Point in MetungLake Tyers Gippsland Lakes Victoria AustraliaTrio of pelicans at Lake Tyers Gippsland Lakes Victoria Australia Contents 1 History 2 Overview 3 Tourism 4 Environment 4 1 Burrunan dolphins 4 2 Birds 5 Photo 6 See also 7 References 8 External linksHistory EditThe Gippsland Lakes were formed by two principal processes The first is river delta alluvial deposition of sediment brought in by the rivers which flow into the lakes citation needed Silt deposited by this process forms into long jetties which can run many kilometres into a lake as exemplified by the Mitchell River silt jetties that run into Lake King The second process is the action of sea current in Bass Strait which created the Ninety Mile Beach and cut off the river deltas from the sea Once the lakes were closed off a new cycle started whereby the water level of the lakes would gradually rise until the waters broke through the barrier beach and the level would drop down until it equalised with sea level citation needed Eventually the beach would close off the lakes and the cycle would begin anew Sometimes it would take many years before a new channel to the sea was formed and not necessarily in the same place as the last one In 1889 a wall was built to fix the position of a naturally occurring channel between the lakes and the ocean at Lakes Entrance to stabilise the water level create a harbour for fishing boats and open up the lakes to shipping This entrance needs to be dredged regularly or the same process that created the Gippsland Lakes would render the entrance too shallow for seagoing vessels to pass through Due to flooding in 2011 Gippsland Lakes experienced blooms of bioluminescent Noctiluca scintillans 5 Overview EditLake Gunai name Area km2 sq mi ReferenceLake Wellington Murla 150 58 6 Lake Victoria Toonallook 150 58 7 Lake Reeve Walmunyee ra 52 20 8 Lake King Ngarrang 44 17 9 Lake Coleman 13 5 10 Lake Tyers Wannang gatty 9 5 3 7 11 Tourism EditThe Gippsland Lakes provide a major hub for tourism particularly for recreational boating and fishing enthusiasts 12 The lakes network can be explored by cruise water taxi or boat and kayak hire On the fringes of the lakes are several tourist towns that swell to support the tourist trade particularly in the summer months Lakes Entrance is the largest of the towns on the lakes with a population of 4 500 13 The town is well serviced with resorts hotels and facilities It is located with easy access to both the lakes network and the surf beach on Ninety Mile Beach which is patrolled each summer Metung is a small village located on the tip of a peninsula sitting in the Gippsland Lakes surrounded almost completely by water It is an upmarket citation needed tourist destination with many dining options and artisan galleries Much of Paynesville s accommodation and infrastructure are located on the network of canals One of the key attractions is Raymond Island known for its koala population The diversity of the brine waters of the lakes surf beaches along Ninety Mile Beach and fresh water streams that feed the lakes make the Gippsland Lakes a popular fishing destination Local fish varieties include bream mullet flathead luderick and trevally 14 Paynesville Lakes Entrance and Metung all offer a number of jetties boat ramps and berthing facilities 15 Environment EditThe lakes support numerous species of wildlife and there exist two protected areas within The Lakes National Park and Gippsland Lakes Coastal Park The Gippsland Lakes wetlands are protected by the international Ramsar Convention on wetlands There are also approximately 400 indigenous flora species and 300 native fauna species Three plants two of them being orchid species are listed as endangered The numbers of southern right whales and humpback whales using the Lake Entrance area show increases in recent years as the populations have started to recover from illegal hunts by the Soviet Union with help from Japan in 1960s 1970s Burrunan dolphins Edit The lakes are home to about 50 of the recently described species of bottlenose dolphin the Burrunan dolphin Tursiops australis The other 150 or so of this rare species are to be found in Port Phillip 16 Birds Edit The wetlands provide habitat for about 20 000 waterbirds including birds from as far afield as Siberia and Alaska The lakes have been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area IBA because they regularly support over 1 of the global populations of black swans chestnut teals and musk ducks as well as many fairy terns 17 Photo Edit nbsp Gippsland LakesSee also Edit nbsp Australia portalBanksia Swamp Gippsland Lakes Coastal ParkReferences Edit Gippsland Lakes Ramsar Sites Information Service Retrieved 25 April 2018 Gippsland Lakes Australian Ramsar site no 21 www environment gov au Retrieved 20 June 2015 Wurruk by Vaughan Nikitin ChaosFilter com Online Publishing A Story Written in an Aboriginal Ganai Kurnai Language Mountain Cattlemen Victoria Gippsland Aboriginal History Myth Legend Archived from the original on 8 October 2007 Retrieved 2 March 2008 a b Clark Ian Heydon Toby 2002 Dictionary of Aboriginal Placenames of Victoria Melbourne Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages Bioluminescence in the Gippsland Lakes Phil Hart Map of Lake Wellington VIC Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia Retrieved 27 October 2014 Map of Lake Victoria VIC Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia Retrieved 27 October 2014 Map of Lake Reeve VIC Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia Retrieved 27 October 2014 Map of Lake King VIC Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia Retrieved 27 October 2014 Map of Lake Coleman VIC Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia Retrieved 27 October 2014 Map of Lake Tyres VIC Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia Retrieved 27 October 2014 The economic value of boating and marine industries associated with the use of Gippsland Lakes PDF www gippslandports vic gov au Archived from the original PDF on 9 March 2015 Retrieved 15 December 2017 Lakes Entrance Population VIC lakes entrance localstats com au Retrieved 21 June 2015 Lake fishing Gippsland Victoria Australia Tourism Victoria home Retrieved 21 June 2015 Corner Inlet Anderson Inlet Slipways Boatyards Port Authority www gippslandports vic gov au Retrieved 21 June 2015 Researcher discovers new dolphin species in Victoria Monash University 15 September 2011 IBA Gippsland Lakes Birdata Birds Australia Archived from the original on 6 July 2011 Retrieved 2011 06 24 External links Edit nbsp Media related to Gippsland Lakes at Wikimedia Commons Official East Gippsland tourism website Gippsland Lakes Coastal Park webpage at Parks Victoria Gippsland Coastal Board The Lakes National Park amp Gippsland Lakes Coastal Park Plan Gippsland Ports Authority website Gippsland Lakes Ministerial Advisory Committee website East Gippsland Catchment Management Authority 2013 East Gippsland regional catchment strategy 2013 2019 PDF Bairnsdale East Gippsland Catchment Management Authority ISBN 978 0 9758164 6 2 Archived from the original PDF on 14 January 2014 Retrieved 13 January 2014 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Gippsland Lakes amp oldid 1153615903, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
