Lake Beeac
| Lake Beeac | ||
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| Geographical location | Victoria ( Australia ) | |
| Tributaries | Barongarook Creek | |
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| Coordinates | 38 ° 12 ′ 19 ″ S , 143 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| surface | 560 ha | |
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The lake beeac located west of the city Beeac , 19 km from Colac away in Victoria in Australia .
The 560 ha large salt lake is an important bird area according to the Ramsar Convention for waterfowl such as the Cladorhynchus leucocephalus and Recurvirostra novaehollandiae , hoary-headed grebe and Whiskered Tern . The lake provides food for migrating birds through small crabs.
Cladorhynchus leucocephalus
Recurvirostra novaehollandiae
In 1868 a salt production facility was set up on the shores of the lake, as was the case at nearby Lake Cundare , which an H. Berry from Melbourne operated a few years before it was abandoned.
The lake fell completely dry in 2007 and was filled again by the rains of 2010.