Description
Lake Wivenhoe is the name both a lake formed by the Wivenhoe Dam and the locality which contains it in the Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia.
Lake Wivenhoe is the name both a lake formed by the Wivenhoe Dam and the locality which contains it in the Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census, Lake Wivenhoe had a population of three people.
History
The name Wivenhoe comes from the name of the pastoral property established circa 1845 by Edmund Blucher Uhr, which took its name from the town of Wivenhoe in Essex, England.The heritage-listed Caboonbah Homestead was located on to the north-west of the lake (near but not within the locality of Caboonbah) where it was a tourist attraction operated by the Brisbane Valley Historical Society until the homestead burned down in 2009.In the 2016 census Lake Wivenhoe had a population of 3 people.
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Population: 1-100
Time zone: UTC +10:00
Area: 202.444 km2
Elevation: 51-200 metres
Town elevation: 87 m
Population number: 3
Local Government Area: Somerset Regional Council