Albert Park Lake

This guide to Albert Park Lake in Melbourne traces the transformation of a quiet lake that hosts a screaming Formula One weekend each March. It goes back to the swampy lagoon the Boonwurrung people gathered at for tens of thousands of years, the 1870s engineering that turned it into an ornamental lake for Prince Albert, and the lakeside races of the 1950s, when Stirling Moss took a checkered flag on these very roads. Local opposition shut the racing down after 1958, and the lake returned to swans, joggers and rowers for more than thirty years.