Torrens, LAKE, sometimes a brackish lake, at others merely a vast salt-marsh, in South Australia. It lies 90 miles N. of Spencer's Gulf. Usual length, about 130 miles by 20 miles broad. It is named after Sir R. R. Torrens (1814-84), who between 1841 and 1874 held many important offices in the colony, and is best known for his Land Titles Registration Act.
Torrens, LAKE
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 249
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