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Former lakes and wetlands in Melbourne

Created 26/06/2025

Updated 26/06/2025

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This shapefile delineates historic water bodies including wetlands, the old Yarra River and Moonee Ponds Creek alignments and lakes (presumably seasonal and generally estuarine). The polygons are digitised from the 1855 map "Melbourne and its Suburbs" compiled by James Kearney, draughtsman ; engraved by David Tulloch and James D. Brown. http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/89107

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Title Former lakes and wetlands in Melbourne
Language English
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/49ee2d05-ad61-49a0-860c-61811ebf0978
Remote Last Updated 13/06/2024
Contact Point
City of Melbourne
contact@dpc.vic.gov.au
Reference Period 09/07/2014
Geospatial Coverage Victoria
Data Portal Victoria Government

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Victoria Government "Former lakes and wetlands in Melbourne". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/former-lakes-and-wetlands-in-melbourne