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Lake Dora
Lake DoraLocation in Tasmania
Location	Western Tasmania
Coordinates	41°57′S 145°39′E / 41.950°S 145.650°E / -41.950; 145.650
Basin countries	Australia
Surface area	48 ha (120 acres)
Surface elevation	756 m (2,480 ft)
References

Lake Dora is a 48-hectare (120-acre) lake and also short-lived mining area of the late 1890s located in the West Coast Range of Western Tasmania, Australia. It has a surface level of 756 metres (2,480 ft) AHD.

Features and location

It has two adjacent tarns just west of it, Maxfield and Michael Tarns, and numerous unnamed smaller lakes and water features.

The nearest named features are Walford Peak at 1,009 metres (3,310 ft), approximately one kilometre (zero point six two miles) to the north west; and Farquhar Lookout at 935 metres (3,068 ft), located 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) to the south west. It is 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) north north west of Eldon Peak

Located east of the Mount Tyndall area, it was the site of a transient gold-mining rush in the late 1890s. Lake Dora is not generally accessible by road, but only via trails or by helicopter. Lake Dora lies north of Lake Spicer – into which it drains.

Charles Whitham wrote of the mining rush: Lake Dora, Royal Dora, Lady Dora, North Dora, and, of course Dora Reward. The Government put in a good track from Mount Read, with a telephone line (1897).

See also

• List of reservoirs and dams in Tasmania
• List of lakes in Tasmania

References

1. "Map of Lake Dora, TAS". Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. n.d. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
2. Kirkpatrick, J. B. (1975). "Plant species diversity of the Lake Dora Islands, Tasmania". Retrieved 24 May 2016.
3. "THE WEST COAST OF TASMANIA". The Argus. Melbourne. 3 August 1898. p. 9. Retrieved 21 June 2012 – via National Library of Australia.
4. "TASMANIA". Zeehan and Dundas Herald. Hobart, Tasmania. 1 February 1898. p. 2. Retrieved 21 June 2012 – via National Library of Australia.

Further reading

• Whitham, Charles (2003). Western Tasmania – A land of riches and beauty (Reprint 2003 ed.). Queenstown: Municipality of Queenstown.

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