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Blue Lake / Warwar (The Blue Lake) is a large, monomictic, crater lake located in a dormant volcanic maar associated with the Mount Gambier maar complex. The lake is situated near Mount Gambier in the Limestone Coast region of South Australia , and is one of four volcanic crater lakes originally on Mount Gambier maar.
Mount Gambier is one of Australia's youngest volcanoes, but estimates of the age have ranged from over 28,000 to less than 4,300. [1] The most recent estimate, based on radiocarbon dating of plant fibres in the main crater ( Blue Lake ) suggests an eruption a little before 6000 years ago.
The Boandik (or Bungandidj) people occupied the area before the colonisation of South Australia. [2]Centenary Tower (2013) When Stephen Henty of Portland happened upon the dormant Mount Gambier volcano in 1839, the Valley Lake and the Blue Lake were considered a good source of water for future settlers in the new colony of South Australia.
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The lake is located approximately 20 kilometres (12 mi) south of the City of Mount Gambier, on the north side of Mount Salt Road (near Mount Schank) about 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi) west of the Riddoch Highway, which is the main road between Mount Gambier and the coastal fishing township of Port MacDonnell.
English: Mount Gambier's BLue Lake, taken in late-December of 2016. Image is taken from a peaked viewing platform to the North-West of the lake. ... F-number: f/2.4 ...
The town of Mount Gambier is as of October 2022 not yet dual-named, but is being signposted "Berrin / Mount Gambier", Berrin being the name by which the town is known to its present-day Indigenous inhabitants. [2] The names include: Blue Lake / Warwar, meaning "crow country", [17] or "the sound of many crows" [18]
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