Key facts
- Location
- South Australia
- Type
- Salt lake
- Primary outflows
- Pirie–Torrens corridor
- Basin countries
- Australia
- Designation
- Lake Torrens National Park
- Max length
- 250 km (160 mi)
- Max width
- 30 km (19 mi)
- Surface area
- 5,745 km (2,218 sq mi)
- Max depth
- 1 m (3.3 ft)
- Surface elevation
- 30 m (98 ft)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Lake Torrens (Kuyani: Ngarndamukia) is a large ephemeral, normally endorheic salt lake in central South Australia. After sufficiently extreme rainfall events, the lake flows out through the Pirie-Torrens corridor to the Spencer Gulf.
Islands on the lake include Andamooka Island and Murdie Island, both near the western shore; Trimmer Inlet runs between Andamooka Island and the shore, and Carrapateena Arm is an arm extending westwards south of Murdie Island.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lake Torrens” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.