Lake Torrens Colonel Robert Torrens who was one of the founders of the South Australian colony. The lake filled in 1897 and again in April 1989. The 1989 filling resulted in the lake outflowing through the Pirie-Torrens Corridor to the Spencer Gulf, suggesting it likely did so in 1897 as well. It has a thin salt crust with red-brown clays beneath, which are soft and boggy. The area around the lake is sparsely vegetated with samphire, saltbush and bluebush. In April 2013, the full extent of Lake Torrens was gazetted by the Government of South Australia as a locality with the name
Parish of Torrens Parish of Torrens Torrens Parish, New South Wales located at 29°14′00″S 142°09′27″E is a rural locality in and a cadastral parish of Tongowoko County, two kilometers north east from the town of Tibooburra, New South Wales. The parish is north east of Tibooburra, within the Sturt National Park. The geography is typical of the flat, arid landscape of the Channel Country. The Geography, of the parish is mostly the flat, arid landscape of the Channel Country. The parish has a Köppen climate classification of BWh (Hot desert). The parish is barely inhabited with a population density of less than 1