Lake Torrens National Park

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Lake Torrens
Location South Australia
Coordinates 31°02′40″S, 137°51′35″ECoordinates: 31°02′40″S, 137°51′35″E
Lake type dried, endorheic saline rift lake
Basin countries Australia
Max length 240 km
Surface area 5,700 km²

Lake Torrens is a 5,700 square kilometre endorheic saline rift lake in South Australia. It forms part of the same rift valley that includes Spencer Gulf to the south and is approximately 240 km long. It is in the Lake Torrens National Park, and a permit is required to visit.

Lake Torrens is usually a dry salt flat. It has only been filled with water once in the past 150 years. It lies 345 km north of Adelaide. Discovered by Edward John Eyre in 1839, for the following twenty years it was believed that Lake Torrens was an enormous horseshoe-shaped saltpan encircling the northern Flinders Ranges and blocking any path to the interior. The first European to penetrate the mythical barrier was A. C. Gregory from the north in March 1858; later the same year, an expedition under B. H. Babbage and Major Warburton in the north-west also crossed the non-existent barrier near modern Marree. Eyre's horseshoe lake was actually composed of Lake Frome, Lake Callabonna, Lake Blanche, Lake Gregory, Lake Eyre South, and Lake Torrens itself.

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National Parks:
Belair | Canunda | Coffin Bay | Coorong | Flinders Chase | Flinders Ranges | Gawler Ranges | Innes | Lake Eyre | Lake Gairdner | Lake Torrens | Lincoln | Mount Remarkable | Murray River | Naracoorte Caves | Nullarbor | Onkaparinga River | Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges | Witjira

Conservation Parks:
Acraman Creek | Billiatt | Black Hill | Cape Gantheaume | Cleland | Cox Scrub | Danggali | Deep Creek | Fairview | Kelly Hill | Hacks Lagoon | Lake Gilles | Mamungari | Marino | Monarto | Morialta | Naracoorte Caves | Ngarkat group | Scott Creek | Seal Bay | Simpson Desert | Spring Gully | Talisker | Telowie Gorge

Recreation Parks:
Brownhill Creek | Cobbler Creek | Onkaparinga River | Totness

Regional Reserves:
Lake Frome | Nullarbor | Simpson Desert | Strzelecki 

Conservation Reserves:
Chadinga | Naracoorte Caves

Wilderness Protection Areas:
Cape Gantheaume | Ravine des Casoars 

Game Reserves:
Bool Lagoon
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