Alkaline lake
Lake Gairdner
Natural Earth’s outline of Lake Gairdner measures about 4,240 km² (1,640 mi²), the 37th largest of the 104 lakes on sizeversus, and 1.08× the size of Cape Verde.
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- Lake Gairdner
- Cape Verde
The numbers
- 4,240km²Area, measured1,640 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 4,350km²Area, publishedWikidata · 2.6% above our measure
- 100mAbove 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 Gairdner
- The Caspian Sea (called a sea or a lake, depending on the definition), the largest of the 104 lakes ranked on sizeversus, is 89.5× the size of Lake Gairdner; Lake Gairdner ranks 37th.
- Lake Gairdner sits between Lake of the Woods (4,380 km²) and Great Salt Lake (4,120 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, Lake Gairdner would be larger than 41 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 172nd by area, between Trinidad and Tobago (5,120 km²) and Cape Verde (3,930 km²).
- It is larger than 2 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is Rhode Island, 2,830 km²) and smaller than 49.
- It is smaller than every one of the 31 provinces and regions of China.
- The closest US state is Delaware (5,170 km²): Lake Gairdner is 82% of the size of Delaware.
- Its surface lies about 100 m above sea level (Wikidata).
- On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 32°S is drawn about 1.4× too large in area, so Lake Gairdner looks bigger there than it is.
- Laid out flat, Lake Gairdner stretches about 144 km north to south and 87 km east to west.
- Our measured 4,240 km² is 2.6% below Wikidata’s published figure of 4,350 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
Countries
Chinese provinces
On the shore
Natural Earth’s outlines of Australia contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Lake Gairdner. 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 Gairdnerthe name in this page’s titlesource: Wikidata’s English label
- Gairdneralso calledsource: Natural Earth
Where Lake Gairdner ranks
Lake Gairdner is the 37th largest of the 104 lakes on sizeversus, ranked by measured area.
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Sources and method
- Outline
- Natural Earth, 1:10m Lakes + Reservoirs, public domain (Lakes + Reservoirs). Outlines of lakes are drawn at 1:10 million.
- Boundary
- A lake or a sea has no legal boundary of its own. The outline is a cartographic one, and the page says so by showing the measured area beside the published one.
- Area basis
- Measured outline: computed on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outline and shown rounded. Published figure: Wikidata (CC0), fetched 2026-11-11. An outline is kept within 10% of the published figure and matched to other places automatically within 5%.
- Depth, volume, height
- As recorded in Wikidata; a volume that cannot be right for the area and depth is left out.
- Shore
- Countries whose Natural Earth outline contains or comes close to the water's outline; computed, not a statement of ownership.
- Drawing
- Each outline is projected with an equal-area projection centred on its own centroid, so areas stay true and two can be laid over each other.
- Data built
- 2026-11-11