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The Lake Hawdon System Important Bird Area comprises an area of covering a series of five coastal lakes in the Limestone Coast of South Australia. They are the most important of a string of regional lakes occupying swale corridors between modern and historical sand dunes. ==Description== The Important Bird Area (IBA) lies between the towns of Robe and Beachport. It includes the following lakes listed in order from north to south - Hawdon, Robe, Eliza, St Clair and George, and the area extending for a distance of inland from each in order to include habitat used by critically endangered orange-bellied parrots. Characteristics of the lakes are:〔 * Lake Hawdon – shallow, semi-permanent, brackish lake which is divided into a northern basin measuring and a southern basin measuring with a maximum water depth of about ; * Lake Robe – much smaller than Lake Hawdon * Lake Eliza – hypersaline coastal lake with maximum depth of ; * Lake St Clair – similar to Lake Eliza but more saline * Lake George – about with maximum depth of ; naturally hypersaline but functions as an estuary with an outlet to the sea. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lake Hawdon System Important Bird Area」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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