词条 | Lake Harris (South Australia) |
释义 |
| name = Lake Harris | image = | image_size = | caption = | pushpin_map = Australia South Australia | pushpin_map_alt = | pushpin_label_position = top | pushpin_map_caption = Location in South Australia | image_bathymetry = | caption_bathymetry = | location = South Australia | coords = {{coord|31.07|S|135.24|E|region:AU-SA_type:waterbody|display=inline,title}} | type = Endorheic, salt lake | inflow = | outflow = evaporation[1] | catchment = | basin_countries = Australia | designation = Lake Gairdner National Park[2] | length = {{convert|20|mi|km|order=flip}}[3] | width = {{convert|10|mi|km|order=flip}}[3] | area = {{convert|300|km2}}[4] | depth = | max-depth = | volume = | residence_time = | shore = | elevation = | islands = “a number of islands”[5] | cities = }}Lake Harris is a endorheic salt lake in the Australian state of South Australia to the north of the Eyre Peninsula located about {{convert|530|km}} northwest of the state capital of Adelaide within the gazetted localities of Lake Harris and Wilgena.[3][6] Lake Harris was named by the Government of South Australia after the surveyor, Charles Hope Harris, who discovered and mapped it in 1874.[7] Lake Harris is aligned in a north-easterly direction with an overall length of about {{convert|20|mi|km|order=flip}} and a maximum width of about {{convert|10|mi|km|order=flip}}.[3][8] It extent includes “a number of Islands” described as being formed from “Quaternary deposits with extensive sand cover.”[5] Its bed consists of “gypsiferous muds, clays and silts with some gypsum crystals” topped with a salt crust of thickness in the range of {{convert|30|mm}} to {{convert|75|mm}}, although parts of the lake have a surface with “no identifiable salt crust”.[5] The lake bed contains a dune field of gypsum sands which vegetated with both “low samphire shrubland and tall shrubland with a chenopod shrub understorey.”[9] Lake Harris along with the nearby lakes of Everard and Gairdner, form the extent of the protected area known as the Lake Gairdner National Park.[2] See also{{stack|{{portal|South Australia}}}}
Citations and references
1. ^DEH, 2004, page 5 2. ^1 DEH, 2004, page 5 3. ^1 2 3 {{cite web|title=Search result for " Lake Harris (Lake)" (Record no SA0029447) with the following layers selected - "Suburbs and Localities" and " Place names (gazetteer)" |url=http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/# |work=Property Location Browser|publisher=Government of South Australia |accessdate=22 September 2016}} 4. ^DEH, 2004, page ii 5. ^1 2 DEH, 2004, page 13 6. ^DEH, 2004, pages 5-7 7. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article166447794 |title=OFFICERS IN THE CIVIL SERVICE. |newspaper=Quiz And The Lantern |volume=X, |issue=503 |location=South Australia |date=11 May 1899 |accessdate=23 September 2016 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}} 8. ^DEH, 2004, page 6 9. ^DEH, 2004, page 13
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