Lake Amadeus
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| Geographical location | Northern Territory , Australia | |
| Location close to the shore | Yulara | |
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| Coordinates | 24 ° 44 ′ S , 130 ° 52 ′ E | |
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| surface | 1 032 km² | |
| length | 160 km | |
| width | 30 km | |
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The Lake Amadeus is a salt lake in the southwestern region of the Australian Northern Territory , of the 275 kilometers southwest of Alice Springs is located. The lake is located north of the Ulu r u-Kata-Tju t a National Park ( Ulu r u , Kata Tju t a , Mount Conner ) in the Amadeus Basin , a sedimentary basin of around 170,000 square kilometers .
history
The British-Australian explorer Ernest Giles was the first European to come across the salt lake in 1872 during one of his expeditions into the interior of Australia. He planned to name him after Baron Ferdinand von Mueller , in whose debt he was indebted. However, Giles urged Giles to name the lake after the Spanish king Amadeus, to whom he was in turn obliged.
landscape
Lake Amadeus is part of a series of salt flats that stretch for 500 kilometers from Lake Hopkins to the Finke River . The area around the lake is an important source of drinking water with numerous springs. The lake is surrounded by other small salt lakes and, when the water level is high, reaches an extent of around 160 kilometers in length and around 30 kilometers in width, but sometimes dries out almost completely due to the climate and forms salt crusts. Lake Amadeus and the lakes surrounding it are owned by the three Aboriginal agricultural societies Petermann , Katiti and Haasts Bluff . A small area at the western end of the lake is used for agriculture by the Curtin Springs Farm .
From 1997 to 2005, the area was ravaged by bushfires that burned 93 percent of the area around the lake. Numerous camels live in this area and find water and suitable forage there. They threaten the existence of the desert plant Quandong , a subspecies of the Santalum acuminatum , which bears sweet fruits from October to February.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Lake Amadeus and Lake Neale - Sites of conservations significance. (PDF; 610 kB) (No longer available online.) In: Northern Territory Government: Natural Resources, Environment, The Arts and Sport. Archived from the original on March 25, 2012 ; accessed on September 3, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Quandong on nullarbornet.com.au . Retrieved December 10, 2010
