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Panorama of the dam wall and power station at Lake Dartmouth, Victoria, Australia. Lake Dartmouth is a reservoir on the Mitta Mitta River in the Victorian Alps, about 80 kilometres south-east from Wodonga. The earth core rockfill dam is with 180 metres the highest dam in Australia and can store 4 million megalitres of water.
The Dartmouth Hydroelectric Power Station is the largest single hydro generator in Victoria with a capacity of 180MW but due to water seasonal variations, the average output is only 217 GWh.
Victoria is Australia's second smallest State and covers only 3% of Australia's land area but has the second highest population of all States and Territories. Victoria's mainland and islands have a total length of 2,512 kilometres coastline which is about 4.2% of Australia's 59,736 kilometres of coastline. Australia is the driest inhabited continent and Victoria is no exception although the state capital Melbourne has the reputation to have 4 seasons in one day. Victoria is located in the southeast of mainland Australia and includes the most southern point on mainland Australia at Wilsons Promontory National Park.
