St Leonards Salt Lagoon
St Leonards Salt Lagoon is a former marine embayment, isolated by coastal deposition from Port Phillip Bay, at St Leonards, Victoria, Australia. It now forms a shallow and hypersaline lake, of about 50 hectares (120 acres), which is often dry. It is a Victorian Nature Reserve.[1]
| St Leonards Salt Lagoon | |
|---|---|
 View from south-east | |
  St Leonards Salt Lagoon Location in Victoria | |
| Location | Bellarine Peninsula, Victoria |
| Coordinates | 38°09′32″S 144°42′40″E |
| Type | Hypersaline, ephemeral |
| Catchment area | Local |
| Basin countries | Australia |
| Surface area | 50 hectares (120 acres) |
| Surface elevation | 0 m (0 ft) AHD |
References
| |||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.