The lakes lie near the town of Manypeaks, and 35 km north-east of Albany, in the Great Southern region of south-west Western Australia.

They are characterised by closed communities of sedges forming freshwater marshes on peat substrates.

The lake margins support other species of wetland plants as well as saltwater paperbark open shrubland.

[1] The three lakes, with a collective area of 434 hectares (1,070 acres), have been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because they support a population of the endangered Australasian bittern, with up to ten breeding pairs present.

[2] The IBA supports large numbers of little grassbirds, while western rosellas, red-capped parrots, red-winged fairy-wrens, western thornbills, western spinebills and red-eared firetails occur in the surrounding bushland.