Lake Macquarie
lagoon, New South Wales, Australia
Lake Macquarie, seaboard lagoon, New South Wales, Australia. It lies 60 miles (97 km) northeast of Sydney. Measuring 15 miles long and 5 miles wide (24 km long and 8 km wide), with 108 miles (174 km) of shoreline and an area of 45 square miles (117 square km), it was formed by sandbars closing off three small branching estuaries of the Hunter River (leaving one narrow passage open to the Pacific that is the...