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Tinaroo is located on the shore of Lake Tinaroo, a man-made reservoir created by the impoundment of the Barron River by the Tinaroo Dam. [4]Despite the town's name, the waterfall of the same name is not in the town nor the locality, but it is very close by in the neighbouring locality of Lake Tinaroo, which includes the dam wall, the lake it impounds and the shoreline around the lake.
Lake Tinaroo is a rural locality in the Tablelands Region of Queensland, Australia. [2] In the 2021 census, Lake Tinaroo had "no people or a very low population". [1]
Lake Eacham (Yidyam) and Lake Barrine are lakes inside volcanic craters. [citation needed] Mount Hypipamee Crater is a diatreme (crater). [citation needed] Tinaroo Dam submerged the old town of Kulara is visible, on whose cricket-pitch, when drought conditions drastically lower the water-level, locals play cricket matches. [5]
The dam is located close to Lake Barrine and Lake Eacham (Yidyam).. Tinaroo Dam spillway Tinaroo Dam spilling. The dam wall, constructed with 223,000 thousand cubic metres (7,900 × 10 ^ 6 cu ft) of concrete, is 42 metres (138 ft) high and 533 metres (1,749 ft) long.
The Barron River (Indigenous: Bibhoora [citation needed]) is located on the Atherton Tablelands inland from Cairns in North Queensland, Australia.With its headwaters below Mount Hypipamee, the 165-kilometre (103 mi)-long river with a catchment area of approximately 2,138 square kilometres (825 sq mi) forms through run off from the Mount Hypipamee National Park, flows through Lake Tinaroo, and ...
The Atherton Tableland is a fertile plateau, which is part of the Great Dividing Range in Queensland, Australia. It has very deep, rich basaltic soils and the main industry is agriculture. The principal river flowing across the plateau is the Barron River, which was dammed to form the irrigation reservoir named Lake Tinaroo. Unlike many other ...
Danbulla National Park and Danbulla State Forest are on the central part of the Atherton Tableland.The Danbulla forest is a spectacular part of the Atherton Tableland. covering 12.000ha between the Tinaroo and Lamb ranges. and bordering Lake Tinaroo. It includes eucalypt and acacia forests. pine plantations and Wet Tropics World Heritage ...
The Tinaroo Falls, a waterfall on the Barron River, is located in the below the Lake Tinaroo dam wall in Far North region of Queensland, Australia. [ 3 ] The traditional custodians of the land surrounding the waterfall are the indigenous Yidinji people .