Nhill-Murrayville Rd, Telopea Downs, Victoria 3419, Australia
The Big Desert is home to a wide variety of birds, reptiles and mammals. It offers visitors an opportunity to experience a landscape which has remained unaffected by human beings and provides a challenge for the experienced hiker.
The region is considered to be the best single area in Victoria for reptiles with over fifty species of lizards and snakes recorded. Ninety-three species of birds ha ...
At high water mark, the lake covers 5,850 hectares of the 8,300 hectare park. Ross Lake (470 hectares) and a 2.5 kilometre stretch of Outlet Creek were added to the park in 1991 and some former areas of the park were attached to Wyperfeld National Park.
The lake generally fills and empties on a 20-year cycle, the longest dry period on record being 27 years. It last filled in 1974 an ...
Located in the flat, semi-arid north-western corner of Victoria, Wyperfeld is one of Australia's most fascinating national parks. The central feature of this huge, 356,800 ha park, is a chain of lake beds connected by Outlet Creek, the northern extension of the Wimmera River. The lakes only fill when the Wimmera River over-supplies Lake Hindmarsh to the south of Lake Albacutya. When it rains the s ...
