Lake Dora (Tasmania)

Lake Dora is a 48-hectare (120-acre) lake and also short-lived mining area of the late 1890s located in the West Coast Range of Western Tasmania, Australia.

[2] The nearest named features are Walford Peak at 1,009 metres (3,310 ft), approximately one kilometre (zero point six two miles) to the north west; and Farquhar Lookout at 935 metres (3,068 ft), located 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) to the south west.

It is 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) north north west of Eldon Peak Located east of the Mount Tyndall area, it was the site of a transient gold-mining rush in the late 1890s.

Lake Dora is not generally accessible by road, but only via trails or by helicopter.

The Government put in a good track from Mount Read, with a telephone line (1897).