Lake Bullen Merri
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Lake Bullen Merri is a brackish crater lake
near Camperdown
in Victoria
, Australia
. It has a maximum depth of 66 metres, with a clover leaf outline indicating that it was probably formed by two overlapping maar
volcanoes. The lake is depicted in beautiful work by Eugene von Guerard
. The edge of the lake was marked by a stone in the late 1800s by James Dawson (activist); from this and von Guerard's painting it is obvious that the level of the lake has dropped considerably in the last 100 years.
Crater lake
A crater lake is a lake that forms in a volcanic crater or caldera, such as a maar; less commonly and with lower association to the term a lake may form in an impact crater caused by a meteorite. Sometimes lakes which form inside calderas are called caldera lakes, but often this distinction is not...
near Camperdown
Camperdown, Victoria
Camperdown is an historically significant rural town in southwestern Victoria, Australia, south west of the state capital, Melbourne. At the 2006 census, Camperdown had a population of 3,165.-History:...
in Victoria
Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. It has a maximum depth of 66 metres, with a clover leaf outline indicating that it was probably formed by two overlapping maar
Maar
A maar is a broad, low-relief volcanic crater that is caused by a phreatomagmatic eruption, an explosion caused by groundwater coming into contact with hot lava or magma. A maar characteristically fills with water to form a relatively shallow crater lake. The name comes from the local Moselle...
volcanoes. The lake is depicted in beautiful work by Eugene von Guerard
Eugene von Guerard
Johann Joseph Eugene von GuérardHis first name is variously spelled "Eugen", "Eugene", "Eugène", one source mentions "Jean" ; his surname is spelled "Guerard" or "Guérard". The most frequent combination is that used by the National Gallery of Australia: "Eugene von Guérard"...
. The edge of the lake was marked by a stone in the late 1800s by James Dawson (activist); from this and von Guerard's painting it is obvious that the level of the lake has dropped considerably in the last 100 years.