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Lake Argyle Aerial, Western Australia

Steven David Miller

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Lake Argyle was created when the Ord River was dammed in 1971. The tiny dam wall, 335m long and 98m high, holds back 10.7 million mega litres of fresh water and spans 1000 square kilometres. Below the dam, the lower Ord continues on to Kununurra and eventually empties in the Cambridge Gulf.

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