Tooms Lake
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| Coordinates | 42 ° 13 '48 " S , 147 ° 47' 51" O | ||||||||||
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| Altitude (at congestion destination ) | 469 m | ||||||||||
| Water surface | 6.6 km² | ||||||||||
| Reservoir length | 4.2 km | ||||||||||
| Reservoir width | 3.2 km | ||||||||||
| Storage space | 25.362 million m³ | ||||||||||
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The Tooms Lake is an artificial lake in the east of the Australian state of Tasmania . The small village on its west bank bears the same name.
The shallow lake covers an area of 6.6 km² and has a water content of 25.362 million m³. The catchment area is 60.2 km². The Tooms River leaves the lake at its northwest end. The seawater has an electrical conductivity of 74 μS / cm (measured at the outlet).
The lake and village are accessed through the unpaved Tooms Lake Road . Land several times a year seaplanes on the lake.
Fishing
The lake is used for sport fishing. You can catch brown trout and rainbow trout there . The brown trout were introduced to Tooms Lake in 1904, the rainbow trout in 1908. The trout weigh an average of 1–1½ kg; the largest weighed 2½ kg.
There are also galaxies ( Galaxis maculatus ) in the lake.
Facilities
A campsite and a slipway for boats have been created on Tooms Lake. There are also public toilets and waste paper bins there. There are no shops or public phones.
history
On December 6, 1828, there was a massacre of Tasmanian Aborigines , in which ten indigenous people were killed by nine soldiers from the 40th regiment. Jon Danvers , the leader of the group, reported to the Oatlands Police Department :
One of them getting up from a small fire to a large one, discovered us and gave the alarm to the rest, and the whole of them jumpt (sic) up immediately and attempted to take up their spears in defense, and seeing that, we immediately fired and repeated it because we saw they were on the defensive part, they were about twenty in number and several of whom were killed, two only were, unfortunately taken alive. (Translation: "One of them, getting up from a small campfire and walking over to a larger one, spotted us and alerted the rest of the group. Everyone immediately jumped up and tried to use their spears in defense. When we saw that, we fired." immediately and continued shooting because we saw that they wanted to defend themselves; there were about 20 in number and several of them were killed. Only two were unfortunately captured alive. ")
A woman and a boy were arrested; the rest of the group escaped.
The small dam at the end of the lake was built by 40 men.
Sources and web links
- Tooms Lake - TAS . ExplorOz.com
- Map of Tooms Lake, TAS . Bonzle.com
- Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing, Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 61
- Archives Office of Tasmania
Individual evidence
- ^ RL Croome & PA Tylor: Phytoplankton biomass and primary productivity of Lake Leake and Tooms Lake, Tasmania
- ^ Lake Level Database - Tooms Lake . Northern Midlands Council (2008) ( Memento of the original from 6 July 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Macquarie Catchment - Hydrology . Government of Tasmania (PDF; 516 kB)
- ^ Tooms Lake Suburb Profile . Domain.com.au ( Memento of the original from June 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Seaplane concerns on Tooms Lake . ABC Rural Homepage. ABC.net.au
- ^ Fact Sheet for Tooms Lake . Government of Tasmania.
- ↑ Marine and Safety Tasmania - Northern Midlands - Tooms Lake . MAST. Government of Tasmania ( Memento of the original from July 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Lyndall Ryan: Abduction and Multiple Killings of Aborigines in Tasmania 1804-1835 . in: Electronic Encyclopedia of Genocide and Massacre. ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ( MS Word ; 2.6 MB)
