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Lake Argyle

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Shire of Wyndham-East Kimberley WA, PO Box 614, Lake Argyle, WA 6743
08 9168 4100

Description

Lake Argyle is Western Australia's largest and Australia's second largest freshwater man-made reservoir by volume.

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.

The primary inflow is the Ord River, while the Bow River and many other smaller creeks also flow into the dam.

The lake is a DIWA-listed wetland. Lake Argyle and Lake Kununurra were listed in 1990 as Ramsar Convention protected wetlands.

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Type: Rural areas

Population: 101-1000

Time zone: UTC +08:00

Area: 9263.148 km2

Elevation: 51-200 metres

Town elevation: 87 m

Population number: 221

Local Government Area: Shire of Wyndham-East Kimberley

Location

Shire of Wyndham-East Kimberley WA, PO Box 614, Lake Argyle, WA 6743

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This article contains content imported from the English Wikipedia article on Lake Argyle, Western Australia

Lake Argyle - Localista

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