Gippsland Lakes

Gippsland Lakes
Gippsland Lakes
Lake Wellington, Lake Victoria, Lake King, Lake Reeve, Lake Tyers, Lake Coleman
	The Entrance to Gippsland Lakes
	Gippsland Lakes
	Landsat 7 imagery of the Gippsland Lakes. Lakes Entrance is visible in the top right of the image.
Location	Gippsland, Victoria
Coordinates	38°00′S 147°39′E / 38.000°S 147.650°E
Primary inflows	Avon, Thomson, Latrobe, Mitchell, Nicholson and Tambo rivers
Primary outflows	Bass Strait
Basin countries	Australia
Surface area	354 km2 (137 sq mi)
Surface elevation	0 m (0 ft)
Settlements	Lakes Entrance, Bairnsdale
Ramsar Wetland
Designated	15 December 1982
Reference no.	269

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 Bass Strait through a short canal about 2 km (1.2 mi) southwest of Lakes Entrance town centre.

^ "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.