Lake Borrie Wetlands

Lake Borrie

Lake Borrie Wetlands
Lake Borrie
Location in Victoria
Location Greater Geelong region, Victoria
Coordinates 38°0′15″S 144°34′25″E / 38.00417°S 144.57361°E / -38.00417; 144.57361Coordinates: 38°0′15″S 144°34′25″E / 38.00417°S 144.57361°E / -38.00417; 144.57361
Type Coastal wetland
Primary inflows Little River
Primary outflows to Port Phillip Bay
Basin countries Australia
Surface area 70 ha (170 acres)
References [1]

Lake Borrie Wetlands is a coastal wetland that is located in the Greater Geelong region of Victoria, Australia. The wetland is situated within the Western Treatment Plant at Werribee; administered by Melbourne Water.

Fed by run off from the Little River, the 70-hectare (170-acre) wetland forms part of the Port Phillip Bay (Western Shoreline) and Bellarine Peninsula Ramsar Site as a wetland of international importance.[2] Thousands of birds amongst more than 270 different species can be found there.[3] The lake is part of the Werribee and Avalon Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because of its importance for wetland and waterbirds as well as for orange-bellied parrots.[4]

The lake was named in honour of Edwin Fullarton Borrie, a civil engineer and town planner in Melbourne.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Map of Lake Borrie, VIC". Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
  2. ↑ Melbourne Water : Sewerage : Western Treatment Plant : Lake Borrie Webcam
  3. ↑ Australia Advances - Waste Water Wetlands
  4. ↑ "Werribee and Avalon". Important Bird Areas factsheet. BirdLife International. 2011. Retrieved 23 November 2011.
  5. ↑ "Borrie, Edwin Fullarton (1894 - 1968)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian National University.


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