Lake Macquarie

The name of Lake Macquarie indicates sometimes the Australian lake, sometimes the city which surrounds it.

The lake

The lake Macquarie with its 110 km ² of surface, is the largest lagoon of Australia. It is located at 150 km in the north of Sydney, in Nouvelle Wales of the South. It is connected to the Pacific Ocean by a short channel and is separated from the ocean by a strip of land of a few kilometers broad. Its form is irregular. A deserted island, Pulbah Island (the name Pulbah wants to say island in indigenous language local), occupies its center. It is a very popular tourist resort but the camp-site is prohibited there. It is impossible to have a complete sight of the lake and of his 350 km of coasts but one can have a splendid point of view starting from the Watagan Mountains all close relations.

The lake was accidentally discovered in 1800 by the captain William Reid and then baptized name of Macquarie in the honor of the governor Lachlan Macquarie. Its indigenous name is Awaba Lake .

City

City off Lake Macquarie had in June 2003 a population of 189.150 inhabitants (Australian Bureau off Statistics) what made the fourth or more important fifth of it Zone of local government of the Nouvelle Wales of the South by its number of inhabitants. Three of the four first: Sutherland, Blacktown and Fairfield belongs to the agglomeration of Sydney. Its population is slightly more important than that of City off Newcastle and the same order as that of City off Wollongong.

The economy of the city is based on the extraction of the coal, food agriculture and the processing industries. Powerplants ( Eraring and Vales Not ) fed with coal and taking their cooling water in the lake provide 25% of the electricity of News-Wales of the South.

External bonds

Lake Macquarie City Council
Lake Macquarie Yacht Club
Belmont 16ft Sailing Club
Clickable map off New South Wales LGAs (NSW Dept. off Local Government)
* Panoramic photographs of the lake

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