Mike_Bailey
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Hi all, I suppose I could look this up in an Atlas but as there are so many of you Aussies on this forum I´ll ask the question here. My son has a world map on his wall and while I was helping him make his bed this a.m. I noticed a bloody big lake just south and to the east of the middle of Australia (the map maybe a bit of a distortion). What is it called, how big actually is it and has it got fish in it ? thx for the info, best, Mike (p.s excuse my ignorance)
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FATBOY404
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Lake Erye ?
If so it is very shallow and is dry more often than not.
http://www.lakeeyrebasin.org.au/
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500Nitro
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Lake Eyre.
Only has fish in it when it floods, which is like once in a hundred years, ecept it has flooded twice in the last few years so that theory went out of the window !!! LOL
FYI, It doesn't have to rain anywhere near Lake Eyre for it to flood, it just needs to rain up North in the river catchments that flow into it.
Gets deep enough to sail boats on but not much more.
It is a superb lake when full, the breeding ground of thousands of birds.
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gryphon
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Max recorded depth of LE was 20'
The place is full of brine shrimp also and when its full it sustains millions of birds.
Some great info here Mike for the lad (and you)
http://www.ilec.or.jp/database/oce/oce-04.html
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gryphon
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Gee I have to add that LE at 1,140,000 km2 Old England would drown in her very easily.
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FATBOY404
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Gee I have to add that LE at 1,140,000 km2 Old England would drown in her very easily.
Never new it could get to 20' deep.
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500Nitro
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Gryph
20 feet is in it's deepest parts, most other areas are a bit less and even more areas less than that.
It's a prick of a place to get stuck in when wet.
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Mike_Bailey
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Thanks for all that guys, that IS a bloody big lake, best
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Sville
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Interesting, I had to go in to Wikipedia and look it up.....
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NitroX
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South Australia has another of large inland lakes. Our inland is a paradise of lakes and water if viewed on a map. 
Dry salt lakes, of course.
I have seen Lake Eyre full of water once, but it was not a date history records it as being filled, 1983 (?). At least the bottom leg of the lake was filled.
Mike,
The early explorers looked for the "inland sea", which they believed existed. They were probably only a million years too late to find it.
Some of the these lakes are below sea level.
Also land speed records were once achieved or attempted on the salt lakes back in the 1950's or 60's.
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Oldbrit
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My daughter visited Alice Springs in September 2009. She was due to sleep out under the stars but it rained! Isn't that about as common as Lake Eyre being full?
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kamilaroi
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Nah, Alice can get quite wet as does much of inland OZ. The tropical monsoon season feeds moist air down through the centre.
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