Lake Torrens Lake Torrens. The full extent of Lake Torrens has been protected as a national park under the "National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972" since 1991. Lake Torrens is part of an area known as the "Inland Saline Lakes" which has been listed in the Directory of Important Wetlands in Australia since at least 1995. Lake Torrens has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area known as the "Lake Torrens Important Bird Area" (IBA) because it supported up to 100,000 breeding banded stilts during the major filling event of 1989. It may occasionally support over 1% of the
HMAS Torrens (D67) 1917, "Torrens" operated throughout Maritime Southeast Asia. In June, the destroyer docked at Singapore for a refit. after which "Torrens" and the other five River class vessels sailed for the Mediterranean. After escorting a convoy from Port Said to Malta, and refits at the island, "Torrens" was assigned to Brindisi as part of the anti-submarine patrol force. The heavy but monotonous workload forced the destroyer to visit Malta in December for another refit. On the night of 22–23 April 1919, "Torrens" was one of six Allied ships patrolling the Adriatic. A force of five Austrian destroyers attacked, seriously damaging the