Located in southwestern Tasmania National Park (Southwest National Park), Gordon Dam is a 140m-high hyperbolic arch dam, the tallest dam in Tasmania and the fifth highest dam in Australia.
Located on the Gorden River (Gordon River), Gordon Dam was designed by Dr. Sergio Quidditch, chief engineer of HEC, a hydraulic company in Tasmania, with a narrow terrain and a hard quartzite foundation with strong folds. The abutment is chlorite metamorphic quartz rock which extends from the top of the dam to at least 91 meters below the river bed. When it was completed, Gordon Dam intercepted the Gorden River and formed two artificial lakes, Lake Gordon (Lake Gordon) and Lake Pade (Lake Pedder), covering an area of 272 square kilometers and storing eleven billion three hundred and sixteen million cubic meters of water, which is said to be Australia's largest freshwater reservoir. The lakes are mountainous, forested and quietly mapped in beautiful reservoirs, making up another beautiful tourist attraction on Tasmania.
