Lake Macquarie
Lake Macquarie is a satellite city of Newcastle with the largest permanent saltwater lake in the Southern Hemisphere. It is a contemporary coastal city and natural adventure playground.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: local government area of New South Wales with 201,000 residents
- Description: local government area in New South Wales, Australia
- Also known as: “City of Lake Macquarie”, “Lake Macquarie City”, and “Lake Macquarie Shire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Awaba railway station and Eraring Power Station.
Awaba railway station
Railway station
Photo: AtholM, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Awaba railway station is located on the Main Northern line in New South Wales, Australia. It serves the City of Lake Macquarie town of Awaba opening on 15 August 1887.
Eraring Power Station
Power station
Eraring Power Station is a coal-fired power station consisting of four 720 MW Toshiba steam-driven turbo-alternators for a combined capacity of 2,880 MW.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Toronto.
Toronto
Suburb
Toronto is a lakeside suburb within the City of Lake Macquarie, Greater Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia, approximately 28 kilometres from Newcastle's central business district and is a commercial hub for the sprawling suburbs on the western shore of the lake.
Lake Macquarie
- Location: Hunter, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania
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Satellite Map
Discover Lake Macquarie from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Vietnamese—“Lake Macquarie” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Lake Macquarie Shire”
- Central Kurdish: “شاری دەریاچەی مەک کواری”
- Chinese: “麥覺理湖市”
- Dutch: “City of Lake Macquarie”
- Dutch: “Marks Point”
- Esperanto: “Lake Macquarie”
- French: “Ville de Lac Macquarie”
- Georgian: “მაკუორი”
- German: “City of Lake Macquarie”
- German: “Lake Macquarie City”
- Hebrew: “העיר לייק מקווארי”
- Hebrew: “עיריית לייק מקווארי”
- Hungarian: “City of Lake Macquarie”
- Indonesian: “Kota Lake Macquarie”
- Italian: “città di Lake Macquarie”
- Italian: “Città di Lake Macquarie”
- Japanese: “シティ・オブ・レイクマッコーリー”
- Japanese: “マッコーリー湖”
- Japanese: “レイク・マコーリー市”
- Japanese: “レイク・マッコーリー・シティ・カウンシル”
- Japanese: “レイク・マッコーリー・シティ”
- Japanese: “レイクマコーリー市”
- Kazakh: “Лейк-Маккуори”
- Lithuanian: “Leik Makvoris”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lake Macquarie”
- Norwegian: “Lake Macquarie”
- Portuguese: “Lake Macquarie”
- Russian: “Лейк-Маккуори”
- Sardinian: “tzitade de Lake Macquarie”
- Scots: “Ceety o Lake Macquarie”
- South Azerbaijani: “مککوری گؤلو”
- Spanish: “Ciudad de Lago Macquarie”
- Swedish: “City of Lake Macquarie”
- Swedish: “Lake Macquarie Shire”
- Turkish: “City of Lake Macquarie”
- Turkish: “Lake Macquarie City”
- Vietnamese: “City of Lake Macquarie”
- Vietnamese: “Lake Macquarie”
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Localities in the Area
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Lake Macquarie”. Photo: Tiimta, CC BY-SA 3.0.