Lake · South Australia

Lake Torrens

31 m102 ft

Area: 5,666 km²
Max depth: 8 m
Tonight: 17°CLight rain · Wind 36 km/h SW

Lake Torrens is a lake at 31 m above sea level in South Australia, Australia, 5,666 km² in area and 203.3 km long.

All facts

Surface elevation: 31 m
Length: 203.3 km
Shoreline: 1,320.0 km

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3D map

Lake Torrens 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Lake Torrens topographic map

5 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.

Index contours every 25 mShowing west → east through the centre

Lake Torrens elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Downloads

Lake Torrens downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Print & wall

JPGLake Torrens satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-03-09.

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

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Lake

Lake Torrens in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline: 1,320.0 km

Weather

Lake Torrens weather

Today · Light rain at night · 17 / 36°C (63 / 97°F) · 3.4 mm · Wind 36 km/h SW

Lake Torrens forecast for about 31 m.

Today17°36°3.4 mm36 km/h SW
Sun9°21°1.8 mm36 km/h SW
Mon10°21°0.1 mm15 km/h SE
Tue14°26°–16 km/h S
Wed18°29°–20 km/h SE
Thu20°33°8.0 mm36 km/h N
Fri17°24°–37 km/h W
Sat13°26°–23 km/h SW
Sun18°28°–17 km/h SE
Mon27°33°–33 km/h N

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: 114 m low point 29 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Bare rock / sparse 65.9%Grassland 27.4%Shrubland 6.7%

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

Where it sits

Where Lake Torrens sits

Nearby

Nearby places

Kati Thanda–Lake EyreLake · -15 m275 km N

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 2026-03-09)
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