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Lake Borrie Wetlands

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Type
  
Coastal wetland

Primary outflows
  
to Port Phillip Bay

Surface area
  
70 ha (170 acres)

Outflow location
  
Port Phillip

Primary inflows
  
Little River

Basin countries
  
Australia

Area
  
70 ha

Inflow source
  
Little River

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Lake Borrie Wetlands is a coastal wetland that is located in the Greater Geelong region of Victoria, Australia. The wetland is situated within the Western Treatment Plant at Werribee; administered by Melbourne Water.

Fed by run off from the Little River, the 70-hectare (170-acre) wetland forms part of the Port Phillip Bay (Western Shoreline) and Bellarine Peninsula Ramsar Site as a wetland of international importance. Thousands of birds amongst more than 270 different species can be found there. The lake is part of the Werribee and Avalon Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because of its importance for wetland and waterbirds as well as for orange-bellied parrots.

The lake was named in honour of Edwin Fullarton Borrie, a civil engineer and town planner in Melbourne.

References

Lake Borrie Wetlands Wikipedia