Lake Buchanan (Queensland)
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| Satellite photo of Lake Buchanan | ||
| Geographical location | Queensland (Australia) | |
| Tributaries | Thomson River | |
| Drain | drainless | |
| Location close to the shore | 163 km southwest of Charters Towers | |
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| Coordinates | 21 ° 31 '57 " S , 145 ° 50' 56" E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 300 m | |
| surface | 117 km² | |
| length | 28 km | |
| width | 8 kilometers | |
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particularities |
very high salt lake |
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The Lake Buchanan is a shallow salt lake in the Pentland in northern Queensland of Australia. It's in the Barkly Tableland . It is about 28 km long and at its widest point 8 km wide with a total of 117 km². It belongs to the Thomson River catchment area and is part of the Desert Uplands Bioregion . The lake differs from all other salt lakes in Australia in that it is very high in the Great Dividing Range . It is not very deep and the water is slightly salty. There is grassland around the lake. On average, 60 mm of rain falls per year. The lake was named after the discoverer Nathaniel Buchanan .
The lake is home to a number of significant species that have recently been discovered and are likely endemic . Little bearded dragons live around the lake .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Distribution area dwarf bearded dragon ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 29, 2015
