Former lakes and wetlands in Melbourne

Created 04/06/2025

Updated 10/06/2025

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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Title Former lakes and wetlands in Melbourne
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/b2db634d-4262-4556-b754-226b4b581424
Remote Last Updated 26/02/2023
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Reference Period 26/02/2023
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
Data Portal Melbourne Data

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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/