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
Torrens Trophy "Torrens". He was also Vice Chairman of the Royal Automobile Club (RAC). The trophy was first awarded in 1978, the first winner being Lieutenant-Colonel Fredrick Lovegrove OBE. The trophy is only awarded when the nomination committee deem it necessary, and as of 2018 there have only been a total of eleven recipients. The current holder of the award is World Superbike Champion Jonathan Rea. Torrens Trophy The Torrens Trophy is awarded by the Royal Automobile Club to an individual or organisation considered to have made an outstanding contribution to the cause of safe and skillful motorcycling in the United Kingdom