🌊 Lake Argyle

Australia · Oceania · 40 m · 16.34°S, 128.74°E

Lake Argyle is Western Australia's largest and Australia's second largest freshwater man-made reservoir by volume. The reservoir is part of the Ord River Irrigation Scheme and is located near the East Kimberley town of Kununurra. The lake flooded large parts of the Shire of Wyndham-East Kimberley on the Kimberley Plateau about 80 kilometres (50 mi) inland from the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf, close to the border with the Northern Territory.

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Quick facts

Country	Australia
Continent / region	Oceania
Surface elevation	40 m above sea level
Coordinates (approx.)	16.34°S, 128.74°E · view on map

Lake Argyle sits at 40 m in Australia, in Oceania. The full story of this lake is described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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