Blue Lake
- Area
- 0.60 km²
- Max depth
- 75 m
- Tonight
- 11°CRain · Wind 19 km/h S
Blue Lake is a lake at 20 m above sea level in South Australia, Australia, 0.60 km² in area and 1.1 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 20 m
- Length
- 1.1 km
- Shoreline
- 3.2 km
Blue Lake in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 3.2 km≈45 min to walk around
Blue Lake 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 4 × 4 km
Blue Lake terrain and contours
10 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.
Blue Lake elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Blue Lake weather
Today · Rain · 11 / 21°C (52 / 70°F) · 12.4 mm · Wind 19 km/h S
Blue Lake forecast for about 20 m.
- Today11°21°12.4 mm19 km/h S
- Sun7°12°1.1 mm22 km/h SW
- Mon7°12°2.4 mm21 km/h W
- Tue10°12°0.4 mm17 km/h SW
- Wed7°16°0.3 mm17 km/h W
- Thu13°20°12.7 mm17 km/h NE
- Fri14°21°2.3 mm17 km/h NE
- Sat9°15°1.1 mm22 km/h SW
- Sun7°14°–14 km/h S
- Mon14°16°0.2 mm17 km/h NE
Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 23, 23:18 UTC.
Camping & parking near Blue Lake
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Blue Lake, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
0.5 km NW
Nearest caravan site
Blue Lake Holiday Park
Nearest campsite
Mt Gambier Showgrounds
All mapped places 7
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 0.5 km NW |
| Parking | 0.6 km W |
| Parking | 0.6 km N |
| Blue Lake Holiday ParkCaravan site | 0.9 km W |
| Pine Country Caravan ParkCaravan site | 1.7 km SW |
| Mt Gambier Central Caravan ParkCaravan site | 1.8 km NNE |
| Mt Gambier ShowgroundsCampsite | 2.0 km ENE |
Slope
Share of the 4 × 4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 93% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 3.0% of the 16 km² view
- Relief in view
- 170 m low point 11 m
Land cover
ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.
Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 2 km; 275 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Superb Fairywren72
- Swamp Wallaby49
- Australasian Swamphen47
- Red Wattlebird33
- Australian Magpie31
- Crimson Rosella29
Where Blue Lake sits
- Region
- South Australia9Australia156Oceania282
Nearby places
Blue Lake downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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Data sources
- Terrain
- Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-01-17)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Camping & parking, Geometry
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
- Wildlife
- iNaturalist community observations, counts only
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)