Lake Pedder was once a natural lake, located in the southwest of Tasmania, Australia but the name is now used in an official sense to refer to the much larger artificial impoundment and diversion lake formed when the original lake was expanded by damming in 1972 by the Hydro Electric Commission of Tasmania. The new Lake Pedder has an area of about 242 km² and it is considered to be the largest freshwater lake in Australia.
Read more about Lake Pedder: Old Lake Pedder and The New Lake Pedder, Damming, Flooding, Community Response, A Controversial and Contested Name, Lake Pedder Extinctions
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