Lake Wendouree
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Lake Wendouree is an artificially created and maintained shallow urban lake located adjacent to the suburb of the same name in the city of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. The name Wendouree comes from
The lake pictured in 2006, looking towards central Ballarat and beyond to Mount Warrenheip
Sailboats on the lake in 1905
A dry Lake Wendouree in 2006, due to the Millennium Drought
Swimming is not recommended
Yarrowee River
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The Yarrowee River is a perennial river of the Corangamite catchment, in the Central Highlands region of the Australian state of Victoria.
Lake Wendouree
…originally a stream which flowed to the west but a lava flow caused it to be dammed on three sides and it now drains to the east, eventually into the Yarrowee River. The swamp was known to Europeans as "Black Swamp" due to its dense dark reeds. It was later known as "Yuille's Swamp" after William Cross Yuille who…
View of the Yarrowee River between Black Hill and East Ballarat west toward Peel Street. The Ballarat railway station clock tower is visible in the distance
Yarrowee River in flood in Redan, January 2011