Lake Selina

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

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Lake Selina is a natural glacial lake located to the east of Mount Read, in the West Coast Range, on the west coast of Tasmania, Australia.

In the 1890s it was the location of mineral exploration{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154082986 |title=MINING MEETINGS |newspaper=Daily Telegraph |volume=XVII |issue=299 |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=15 December 1897 |accessdate=26 April 2023 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39705203 |title=LAKE SELINA COMPANY. |newspaper=Launceston Examiner |volume=LVII |issue=280 |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=26 November 1897 |accessdate=26 April 2023 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}} along with nearby Lake Dora.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article232581088 |title=THE LAKE DORA SECTIONS. |newspaper=The Mount Lyell Standard And Strahan Gazette |volume=1 |issue=61 |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=1 December 1897 |accessdate=26 April 2023 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}

Its location and conditions have led it to be a location of research into Pleistocene and Holocene environments.{{cite journal|author1=Colhoun, Eric A.|author2=Polaa, Jeremy S.|author3=Bartonb, Charles E.|author4=Heijnisc, Henk|title=Late Pleistocene vegetation and climate history of Lake Selina, Western Tasmania|journal=Quaternary International|volume=57-58|date=June 1999|issue=1 |pages=5–23|doi=10.1016/s1040-6182(98)00046-9|bibcode=1999QuInt..57....5C }}{{cite journal|author1=Mackenzie, L. L.|author2=Moss, P. T.|author3=Petherick, L. M.|author4=Marx, S. K.|title=Late Holocene vegetation and environments of Lake Selina, Western Tasmania|journal=Australasian Quaternary Association Biennial Conference|date=7–12 December 2008|volume=17|location=Victor Harbour, Australia}}

It has an estimated surface area of 185,000 square meters and is located close to the Anthony Road B28 that travels between Tullah and Queenstown.{{cite web |url=http://www.tco.asn.au/oac/local_attractions.cgi?oacID=15 |title=Tullah Online Access Centre |access-date=2010-10-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110312163019/http://www.tco.asn.au/oac/local_attractions.cgi?oacID=15 |archive-date=12 March 2011 |df=dmy-all }}

From the east, Lake Selina with an elevation of {{convert|516|m}} {{AHD}} is the furthest east adjacent to Anthony Road; then Lake Westwood, and then Lake Julia with the elevation of {{convert|619|m}}; with Mount Julia to the west at {{convert|827|m}} {{AHD}}.