coongie sunrise - a photo on Flickriver

coongie sunrise

            sunrise on the shore of the coongie lake, coongie lakes national park, south australia

drowned coolabah tree - Eucalyptus coolabah

this lake is an oasis of permanent freshwater in the centre of australia (in fact, it's considerably fresher than the murray, australia's largest river) 

bear in mind that this area gets 125mm average annual rainfall and 3.6 metres of annual evaporation - temperatures of 50C are common in summer!

the queensland government must never be allowed to issue irrigation licences on the cooper creek upstream from these magnificent wetlands, as this would dramatically diminish flows to the ramsar listed coongie lakes system, and ultimately to lake eyre itself

Taken in: Australia / South Australia / Coonaie (show map)

Taken on: October 24, 2006

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