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Former lakes and wetlands in Melbourne

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

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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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Field Value
Title Former lakes and wetlands in Melbourne
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/fcf9fe7a-1bf5-4cd1-a311-67a1005a3581
Remote Last Updated
Contact Point
City of Melbourne Open Data
opendata@melbourne.vic.gov.au
Reference Period
Geospatial Coverage Melbourne
Data Portal Melbourne Data

Data Source

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