Bronte Lagoon

{{Short description|Lake in Tasmania, Australia}}

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Bronte Lagoon is a lake that was created by Hydro Tasmania in the 1950s along with Bradys Lake, Lake Binney and Tungatinah Lagoon as water storages for the Tungatinah Power Station on the Nive River.{{cite web |url=http://www.ifs.tas.gov.au/ifs/IFSDatabaseManager/WatersDatabase/bronte-lagoon |title=Bronte Lagoon — IFS Portal |website=www.ifs.tas.gov.au |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060820025230/http://www.ifs.tas.gov.au/ifs/IFSDatabaseManager/WatersDatabase/bronte-lagoon |archive-date=2006-08-20}}

It is located in the Central Highlands of Tasmania south of Lyell Highway, connected to Brady's Lake by Woodwards Canal.{{Citation | author1=Felton, Heather | author2=Hydro Tasmania | title=Ticklebelly tales and other stories from the people of the Hydro | year=2008 | publication-date=2008 | publisher=Hydro Tasmania | isbn=978-0-646-47724-4 }} see page 122 for map of details of related canals and lakes - where it is grouped with Nive River and Lake Echo developments

It is an area where holiday shacks have been made on crown land.{{Citation | author1=Glazik, Rae | title=A botanical survey of crown land shack sites on the western side of Bronte Lagoon, Central Tasmania | publication-date=2000 | publisher=[The author] | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/34819994 | accessdate=3 April 2012 }}

Bronte Park, the location north of this lake, on the other side of the Lyell Highway, was in the late 1940s and early 1950s a Hydro Tasmania construction village for the Nive Development (later known as the Tarraleah Power Development){{Citation | author1=Tasmania. Hydro-Electric Commission | title=Power in Tasmania | publication-date=1980 | publisher=Public Relations Dept., H.E.C | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/16882550 | accessdate=4 April 2012 }} page 10 - 11