Lake George

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Lake George

Coordinates-35.10°, 149.37°

Demographic figures from Australian Bureau of Statistics. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Lake George is an endorheic lake in south-eastern New South Wales, Australia. It is approximately 40 kilometres (25 mi) north-east of Canberra located adjacent to the Federal Highway en route to Canberra and Sydney. Lake George is also the name of a locality on the western and southern edges of the lake, within the area of the Queanbeyan–Palerang Regional Council.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Wildlife & biodiversity

Citizen-science & research observations from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

Earthquake history

Events from the USGS Earthquake Catalog (global) (FDSN Event Web Service).

Notable people from here

Pope Cooper

Australian judge and politician (1848-1923)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in New South Wales

• Bellmount Forest
  14.6 mi away
• Croppers Point
  26.2 mi away
• Little Bombay
  27.2 mi away
• Euradux
  30.3 mi away
• Coolalie
  31 mi away
• Greendale
  31.3 mi away · pop. 348
• Cavan
  31.5 mi away · pop. 47
• Kangaroo Flat
  31.8 mi away
• Webo Willows
  35.1 mi away
• Bannister
  35.6 mi away · pop. 141
• McGraths Flats
  38.2 mi away
• Kindervale
  38.4 mi away

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Lake George

An Australian language as spoken by the Awabakal, the people of Awaba, or lake Macquarie (near Newcastle, New South Wales)

L. E. Threlkeld · 1892

Alfred Stieglitz

Alfred Stieglitz · 1976

The effect of construction of proposed lake at Chipping Norton on behaviour of Georges River

Crawford Hugh Munro · 1967

The Worst Journey in the World

Apsley Cherry-Garrard · 1922

[Collected works

West, William · 1889

History of the World's Fair

Benjamin Cummings Truman · 1893

The history of Detroit and Michigan

Silas Farmer · 1884

International handbook of underwater archaeology

Carol V. Ruppe · 2002

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

Fiddler Beetle

Eupoecila australasiae

Seen 2026-08-23

False Sarsaparilla

Hardenbergia violacea

Seen 2026-08-23

Black Swan

Cygnus atratus

Seen 2026-08-22

Welcome Swallow

Hirundo neoxena

Seen 2026-08-22

Pied Stilt

Himantopus leucocephalus

Seen 2026-08-22

pink-sorrel

Oxalis articulata

Seen 2026-08-17

Eastern Three-toed Earless Skink

Hemiergis talbingoensis

Seen 2026-08-16

Swamp Wallaby

Wallabia bicolor

Seen 2026-08-15

Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo

Zanda funerea

Seen 2026-08-09

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).

Official Identifiers