Lake George

Lake George (or Weerewaa in the indigenous language) is a lake in south-eastern New South Wales, about 30 minutes drive north-east of Canberra along the Federal Highway enroute to Sydney.

South of Goulburn is Australia's largest freshwater lake, Lake George which is a Wildlife Refuge. This lake holds its place in local folklore with many interesting stories abounding, including those of mysterious disappearings of the lake's waters (and occasionally its visitors!)

It is renowned for emptying and filling on a cyclical basis, and for the treachery of its waters when full (a number of people have drowned).

Lake George is a freak phenomenon. It has been known to disappear virtually overnight. The lake has been totally dry in 1837, 1870, 1902, most of the1930s and the early1980s. It has been completely full in 1852, 1897, 1925, the 1950s and the mid-1980s. There is no pattern to this strange phenomenon.