Lake Bathurst (New South Wales)
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Features and location
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The lake was named by surveyor James Meehan in honour of Earl Bathurst, Secretary of State for the Colonies,[1] and the nearby village was named after the lake.
Birds
The lake is an important site for Australasian shovellers. A Script error: No such module "convert". area of the lake and its immediate surrounds has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it regularly supports significant numbers of near threatened blue-billed ducks and over 1% of the world population of Australasian shovellers. It is an important drought refuge, sometimes supporting over 1% of the world populations of freckled ducks, black swans, chestnut teals and sharp-tailed sandpipers.[2][3]
Locality
Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Lake Bathurst is also the name of a very small village, located on the Goulburn-Braidwood Road, Script error: No such module "convert". west of the lake.[5] At the Template:CensusAU, the Lake Bathurst area had a population of 228.[4]
Lake Bathurst station
Lake Bathurst had a railway station (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) on the Bombala railway line from 1884 to 1975.[6][7]
Inveralochy station
Another station (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) was established under the name of Inveralochy in the northern part of the locality in 1890 and was closed in 1974.[8][9]
Military history
During World War II, Lake Bathurst was the location of RAAF No.16 Inland Aircraft Fuel Depot (IAFD), completed in 1942 and closed on 29 August 1944. Usually consisting of 4 tanks, 31 fuel depots were built across Australia for the storage and supply of aircraft fuel for the RAAF and the US Army Air Forces at a total cost of £900,000 ($1,800,000).[10]
References
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Further reading
- McDonald, J. Kay. (1985). Exploring the ACT and Southeast New South Wales. Kangaroo Press: Sydney. Template:ISBN
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