In 1972 Lake Pedder in south-west Tasmania was submerged under 15 metres of water as a result of the Tasmanian State Government’s Middle Gordon Hydro-electric Power Scheme. The lake was subsumed into a much larger artificial impoundment formed by three rockfill dams, making it the largest freshwater lake in Australia. The Tasmanian government transferred the name Lake Pedder to the new impoundment. Three species endemic to the original Lake Pedder were recorded as extinct as a consequence of the lake’s flooding. The Lake Pedder planarian, a species of carnivorous flatworm, the Lake Pedder earthworm, and the Pedder galaxias, a small freshwater fish, disappeared from the lake area after the inundation of this unique habitat, the site of a number of ecologically valuable faunal communities. The divergent fates of these animals, their status as lost species and their significance as creatures both meaningful and meaning-making, marks out an extinction matrix suggesting that the absence of specific animals and specific experiences and ways of life matter more than others, that specific deaths can be more readily incorporated into stories of loss and restoration, and that the perceived malleability of habitats invariably involves death inscribed as sacrifice or justifiable casualties. This paper seeks to retrieve some of the perspectives and experiences forgotten or written over in the lake’s stories of flooding and redemption.

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淹没，灭绝和湖泊生活

1972年，由于塔斯马尼亚州政府的戈登中部水力发电计划，塔斯马尼亚西南部的皮德湖被淹没在15米深的水下。该湖被包含在由三个堆石坝形成的更大的人工蓄水池中，使其成为澳大利亚最大的淡水湖。塔斯马尼亚州政府将名称“ Pedder湖”转移到新的水库中。据记录，原始的Pedder湖特有的三个物种由于该湖的洪水而灭绝。在这个独特的栖息地被淹没之后，湖上就消失了Pedder species虫（一种食肉扁虫），Pedder earth和一种淡水小鱼Pedder galaxias，这些栖息地是许多具有生态价值的动物群落的所在地。这些动物的命运不同，它们作为失落物种的地位以及作为有意义和有意义的生物的重要性，标志着一种灭绝矩阵，表明缺少特定动物，特定经验和生活方式比其他物种更为重要，特定死亡可以更容易地纳入有关丧失和恢复的故事，以及栖息地的可延展性总是涉及被称为牺牲或合理伤亡的死亡。本文力图找回在湖泊的洪水和救赎故事中被遗忘或覆盖的一些观点和经验。可以将特定的死亡更容易地纳入损失和恢复的故事中，并且栖息地的可感知性总是涉及被称为牺牲或合理伤亡的死亡。本文力图找回在湖泊的洪水和救赎故事中被遗忘或覆盖的一些观点和经验。可以将特定的死亡更容易地纳入损失和恢复的故事中，并且栖息地的可感知性总是涉及被称为牺牲或合理伤亡的死亡。本文力图找回在湖泊的洪水和救赎故事中被遗忘或覆盖的一些观点和经验。