St Leonards Salt Lagoon

St Leonards Salt Lagoon

St Leonards Salt Lagoon is a former marine embayment, now isolated by coastal deposition from Port Phillip Bay, at St Leonards, Victoria, Australia. It now forms a shallow and hypersaline lake, of about 50 ha, which is often dry. It is a State Nature Reserve. [ [http://www.nre.vic.gov.au/dpi/vro/portregn.nsf/pages/port_lf_sig_sites_leondards1 Victorian Respurces Online: St Leonards Lagoon] ]

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