Cirrus@Austlit

'They say that Lake St Clair Is the deepest lake in the continent. In his journals. George August Robinson recorded its traditional name as leeawulenna. which is translated into English as sleeping water; dozens of creeks and waterways flow into the heart of the island. filling a lake that holds the beginnings of the River Derwent. carrying millions of years of water that sifts from the clouds into the sea. Deep in the central highlands is a valley carved by ancient glaciers, fed by clouds, shaped by rivers that have lived for millennia where time stands still. poised at the water's edge. The saddle arc of Mt Olympus runnels between watersheds, the seasonal snowmelt gently weathering the island's channels. It's hard for me to imagine the lake's depth - more than one hundred and fifty metres — without draining the water in my imagination.' (Introduction)