Fairbairn Dam
The Fairbairn Dam is an earth-filled embankment dam across the Nogoa River, located southwest of Emerald in Central Queensland, Australia. Constructed in 1972 for the primary purpose of irrigation, the impoundment created by the dam serves as one of the major potable water supplies for the region and assists with some flood mitigation.- Type: Dam
- Description: dam in Australia
- Also known as: “Lake Maraboon”
Fairbairn Dam
Latitude
-23.64919° or 23° 38′ 57″ south
Longitude
148.06923° or 148° 4′ 9″ east
Elevation
211 metres (692 feet)
Operator
SunWater
Open location code
5R8C9329+8M
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=dam
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Fairbairn Dam” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Lake Maraboon”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سد فيربيرن”
- French: “barrage de Fairbairn”
- French: “Barrage de Fairbairn”
- German: “Fairbairn Dam”
- German: “Lake Maraboon”
- Italian: “diga di Fairbairn”
- Polish: “Faibairn Dam”
- Polish: “Fairbairn Dam”
- Swedish: “Lake Maraboon”
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