Lake Illawarra is a large coastal lagoon, near the city of Wollongong about 100 km south of Sydney, New South Wales. The towns of Dapto and Shellharbour are near the lake, which receives the runoff from the Illawarra escarpment through the Macquarie Rivulet. Matthew Flinders and George Bass called the lake Tom Thumb's Lagoon on Flinders' chart, named after their little boat the Tom Thumb, when they were there in Mar. 1796 (216 years ago). The book "Lake Illawarra: an ongoing history" by Joseph Davis was published by the Lake Illawarra Authority in 2005 (7 years ago) and provides a wide-ranging environmental and historical 'biography' of the Lake and its foreshores. It also contains many images (wallpaper) and photographs depicting the lake. Lake Illawarra has a narrow tidal entrance to the sea at Windang. The lake is shallow (2-3 metres average) and vulnerable to pollution and urban run-off. It was used as a source of cooling water for Tallawarra Power Station at Mount Brown. Birds found at the lake include pelicans, cormorants, musk ducks, hoary headed grebes, black swans, black ducks, grey teal ducks, herons, ibises and spoonbills. On 12 Jan. 2009 (3 years ago), it is suspected a man was bitten by a bull shark whilst snorkelling at Windang near the mouth of Lake Illawarra.

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