The Pirie–Torrens corridor is an approximately 59 km (37 mi) long intermittent watercourse that serves as the only natural outlet of Lake Torrens, a large normally endorheic salt lake in central South Australia.
Pirie–Torrens corridor | |
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Location | |
Country | Australia |
State | South Australia |
Region | Far North |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | Lake Torrens |
• coordinates | 31°56′27.7″S 137°46′15.5″E |
• elevation | 30 m (98 ft) |
Mouth | Spencer Gulf |
• location | Emeroo |
• coordinates | 32°24′15.6″S 137°45′16.2″E |
• elevation | 0 m (0 ft) |
Length | 59 km (37 mi) |
Discharge | |
• location | Port Augusta[1] |
• average | 0.5 m3/s (18 cu ft/s)[1] |
Basin features | |
Tributaries | |
• right | Sandy Creek |
Only on two recorded occasions — in 1836, and again in March 1989 — has Lake Torrens filled high enough to flow out through the corridor to its outlet at the head of the Spencer Gulf.[2][3]
The Wikipedia Lake Torrens entry states that the corridor likekly flowed in 1897.[4]
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Rivers of South Australia | |
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Rivers that flow towards the coast | |
Rivers of the Murray–Darling basin | |
Rivers of the Lake Eyre basin | |
Rivers of Kangaroo Island |
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Rivers flowing into Lake Torrens |
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