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St Leonards Salt Lagoon

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Type
  
Hypersaline, ephemeral

Basin countries
  
Australia

Area
  
50 ha

Catchment area
  
Local

Surface elevation
  
0 cm

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Location
  
Bellarine Peninsula, Victoria

Surface area
  
50 hectares (120 acres)

St Leonards Salt Lagoon is a former marine embayment, isolated by coastal deposition from Port Phillip Bay, at St Leonards, Victoria, Australia. It now forms a shallow and hypersaline lake, of about 50 hectares (120 acres), which is often dry. It is a Victorian Nature Reserve.

Map of Salt Lagoon, St Leonards VIC 3223, Australia

References

St Leonards Salt Lagoon Wikipedia