Lake Amadeus

The numbers

• 1,070km²Area, measured411 mi² · Natural Earth outline
• 1,030km²Area, publishedWikidata · 3.2% below our measure
• 10mGreatest depthWikidata
• 204mAbove sea levelSurface, Wikidata

The area is measured from the outline drawn above, on the WGS84 ellipsoid; the published figure is shown beside it, and a water body is kept only if the two are within 10%.

What the numbers say about Lake Amadeus

• The Caspian Sea (called a sea or a lake, depending on the definition), the largest of the 104 lakes ranked on sizeversus, is 356× the size of Lake Amadeus; Lake Amadeus ranks 93rd.
• Lake Amadeus sits between Lake Eyasi (1,070 km²) and Lake St. John (1,050 km²) in the ranking.
• Counted as a country, Lake Amadeus would be larger than 35 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 178th by area, between the Comoros (1,670 km²) and São Tomé and Príncipe (1,040 km²).
• It is larger than 1 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is Washington, D.C., 162 km²) and smaller than 50.
• It is smaller than every one of the 31 provinces and regions of China.
• The closest US state is Rhode Island (2,830 km²): Lake Amadeus is 38% of the size of Rhode Island.
• Wikidata records a greatest depth of 10 m.
• Its surface lies about 204 m above sea level (Wikidata).
• Lake Amadeus lies at 25°S, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.2×.
• Laid out flat, Lake Amadeus stretches about 52 km north to south and 107 km east to west.
• Our measured 1,070 km² is 3.2% above Wikidata’s published figure of 1,030 km². Published areas of lakes and seas move with the water level and with what is counted, so a few percent is expected.

About the same size as

On the shore

• Australia

Natural Earth’s outlines of Australia contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Lake Amadeus. That is what its geometry says, and it is not a statement about who owns the water or where any border runs in it.

Names

• Lake Amadeusthe name in this page’s titlesource: Wikidata’s English label
• Amadeusalso calledsource: Natural Earth