Peery Lake

{{Short description|Lake in Australia}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}} {{Infobox body of water | name = Peery Lake | native_name = | native_name_lang = | other_name =  | image = Peerylake.JPG | alt = | caption = Peerylake | image_bathymetry = | alt_bathymetry = | caption_bathymetry =  | location = Far West, New South Wales, Australia | group = | coordinates = {{coord|30|46|S|143|36|E|display=inline,title|region:AU_type:waterbody_source:GNS-enwiki}} | type = ephemeral lake | etymology = | part_of = | inflow = | rivers = | outflow = | oceans = | catchment =  | basin_countries = | agency = | designation = | date-built =  | engineer = | date-flooded =  | length =  | width =  | area = {{convert|5026|ha}} | depth =  | max-depth =  | volume =  | residence_time = | salinity = | shore =  | elevation =  | temperature_high =  | temperature_low =  | frozen = | islands = | islands_category = | sections = | trenches = | benches = | cities =  | pushpin_map = New South Wales | pushpin_label_position = | pushpin_map_alt = Location of the lake in New South Wales, Australia. | pushpin_map_caption =  | website = | reference = }} [[File:Lophochroa leadbeateri - Major Mitchell's cockatoo.JPG|thumb|right|Three Major Mitchell's cockatoo's perched.<ref>Photographed within the Paroo River wetlands in north-western New South Wales, Australia</ref>]]

'''Peery Lake''' is a fresh water lake on the Paroo River, north of Wilcannia, New South Wales, Far West New South Wales.

Peery Lake is an ephemeral lake, {{convert|5026|ha}} in area and is a Ramsar site.

==Setting== The lake in North western New South Wales is between Paroo-Darling National Park and Nocoleche Nature Reserve. This region has a Köppen climate classification of BSh (Hot semi-desert)<ref name=Peel>{{cite journal | last1=Peel |first1=M. C. |last2=Finlayson |first2=B. L. |last3=McMahon |first3=T. A. | year=2007 | title= Updated world map of the Köppen–Geiger climate classification | journal=Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. | volume=11 |issue=5 | pages=1633–1644 |doi=10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007 |bibcode=2007HESS...11.1633P | url=https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00298818/file/hessd-4-439-2007.pdf | issn = 1027-5606| doi-access=free }} ''(direct: [http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/11/1633/2007/hess-11-1633-2007.pdf Final Revised Paper])''</ref> and is considered to be desert. This stretch of the Paroo River valley represents an oasis in the otherwise arid and featureless landscape of the northwest New South Wales.

==Significance== The area has been declared a Ramsar Site.<ref>Kingsford, R.T., and E. Lee. 2010. Ecological Character Description of the Paroo River Wetlands Ramsar Site. Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water NSW, Sydney.</ref>

The area is the traditional lands of the Wandjiwalgu<ref>David R Horton, Aboriginal Studies Press, AIATS and Sinclair Merz Knight 1996</ref><ref>Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. p196.</ref> <ref>David R Horton (creator), Aboriginal Studies Press, AIATSIS, and Auslig/Sinclair, Knight, Merz, 1996.</ref> and Paakantyi Aboriginal.<ref>NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service. 2012. Paroo Darling National Park and State Conservation Area Plan of Management. NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, Hurstville, New South Wales.</ref><ref>Westbrooke, M., J. Leversha, M. Gibson, M. O'Keefe, R. Milne, S. Gowans, C. Harding, and K. Callister. 2003. The vegetation of Peery Lake area, Paroo-Darling National Park, western New South Wales. Cunninghamia 8: 111–128.</ref>

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Category:Lakes of New South Wales Category:Ramsar sites in Australia Category:Far West (New South Wales)