[2][3] It is a seaside suburb of the Milton-Ulladulla district, a part of the City of Shoalhaven local government area and surrounds the lake of the same name.

[2] The first inhabitants and traditional land owners of the area surrounding Burrill Lake were the Murramarang Indigenous people of the Yuin nation.

In 1931, members of the Anthropological Society of New South Wales excavated an Aboriginal rock shelter believed to be in excess of 20,000 years old, the oldest known site on the Australian East Coast.

The Big 4 Holiday Parks on the southern side of the lake also offers mini-golf, bird feeding and pedalo hire to the public.

The estuary provides the angler with good fishing with many species encountered including snapper, flathead, bream, blackfish, whiting and blue swimmer crabs.