Lake · South Australia

Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre

-15 m-49 ft

Area: 8,182 km²
Max depth: 6 m
Tonight: 20°CPartly cloudy · Wind 40 km/h W

Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre is a lake at -15 m above sea level in South Australia, Australia, 8,182 km² in area and 178.1 km long.

All facts

Surface elevation: -15 m
Length: 178.1 km
Shoreline: 1,425.2 km

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3D map

Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre topographic map

1 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.

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Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Downloads

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Print & wall

JPGKati Thanda–Lake Eyre satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-03-22.

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GIS & GPS

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Lake

Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline: 1,425.2 km

Weather

Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre weather

Today · Fair · 20 / 38°C (68 / 100°F) · 0.2 mm · Wind 40 km/h W

Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre forecast for about -15 m.

Today20°38°0.2 mm40 km/h W
Sun13°25°–42 km/h S
Mon14°25°0.3 mm22 km/h S
Tue17°23°1.7 mm25 km/h S
Wed20°26°3.2 mm22 km/h NE
Thu20°27°4.0 mm25 km/h N
Fri16°28°0.2 mm31 km/h W
Sat17°29°–22 km/h SW
Sun21°30°–18 km/h NE
Mon29°35°–30 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 24, 01:17 UTC.

Slope

Share of the 20 × 20 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly gentle: 100% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°

100.0%

Moderate, 15–30°

0.0%

Steep, 30–45°

0.0%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.0%

Steeper than 30°: 0.0% of the 400 km² view
Relief in view: 20 m low point -16 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Bare rock / sparse 99.7%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Where it sits

Where Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre sits

Nearby

Nearby places

Lake Torrens30 m266 km SSE

Sources

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 2026-03-22)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
Wildlife: iNaturalist community observations, counts only
Forecast: Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources: Wikidata · GeoNames · Wikipedia