Pink Lake is an outer western suburb of Esperance, a town in south-eastern

Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...

. Its local government area is the

Shire of Esperance The Shire of Esperance is a local government area in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia, about south of the town of Kalgoorlie and about east-southeast of the state capital, Perth. The Shire covers an area of , and its seat ...

, and it is located west-northwest of Esperance's central business district. It is named for

Pink Lake A pink lake is a lake that has a red or pink colour. This is often caused by the presence of salt-tolerant algae that produces carotenoids, such as ''Dunaliella salina'', usually in conjunction with specific bacteria, which may vary from lake ...

, a pink-blue lake located within its boundaries.

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{{Suburbs of Esperance Suburbs of Esperance, Western Australia