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Lake Paterson was the most significant wetland complex in the Paterson Valley. The lake was on the eastern side of the river. It was part of a wetland that stretched from Iona, Woodville through to Wallalong, covering virtually all the eastern side of the river within the flood plain. The wetland complex has now been completely drained and to the casual observer there is no remaining evidence of it.[1]
In Lycett's painting below, Mount Johnstone can be seen in the background.
'Lake Patterson, near Pattersons Plains, Hunters River' by Joseph Lycett, 1824.
Other parts of the Paterson wetland complex are clearly evident in Dangar's map of 1828, and have been reconstructed in the following diagram. Lake Paterson is on the bottom right.[2]
Notes and references
1. Archer, Cameron. "Social and Environmental Change as Determinants of Ecosystem Health: A Case Study of Social Ecological Systems in the Paterson Valley NSW Australia" 
. Ph.D. thesis, University of Newcastle, 2007, p42.
2. As above, p180.
External links
Joseph Lycett in wikipedia ; and in Aust. Dict. Biography .
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