Lake Mackay
| Lake Mackay | ||
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| Lake Mackay from Space (November 1989) | ||
| Geographical location | Western Australia / Northern Territory ( Australia ) | |
| Drain | drainless | |
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| Coordinates | 22 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ S , 128 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| surface | 3,494 km² | |
The Lake Mackay is a dried-up of many salt lakes , which in Western Australia and the Northern Territory is located. It was discovered during an overflight on July 9, 1930 and named after Donald George Mackay , who organized the large-scale land exploration by air.
location
Lake Mackay is located in the Great Sand Desert , Gibson Desert, and Tanami Desert . It extends about 100 kilometers in an east-west, south-west and north-east direction and is the largest lake in Western Australia with an area of about 3494 km².
In aerial photos , Lake Mackay is characterized by different colors: The darker areas on the lake floor indicate desert vegetation or algae , some moisture in the bottom of the dry lake and the lowest areas where some water collects. In this arid region, salts and other minerals are brought to the surface by capillary effects triggered by evaporation , creating the white, reflective surface. There are numerous brown hills in the eastern half of the lake and sand drifts south of the lake running east to west.
Lake Mackay is known for tales from the dreamtime and its importance to the Aborigines of the Western Desert . The main mythology consists of three themes, all of which deal with the bushfires that devastated and shaped the land.
The salt lake is called Wilkinkarra by the local Aborigines and is the birthplace of the famous Aboriginal artist Linda Syddick Napaltjarri .
The hare- sized Central Australian hare kangaroo lived in the Northern Territory between Mt. Farewell and Lake Mackay. It became extinct in the 1930s to 1940s. The Aborigines only showed the Europeans a skull of this animal, which is now in the South Australian Museum .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ australiangeographic.com.au ( Memento of the original from September 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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. : David Corke: Aviation: The adventures of Love Bird and Diamond Bird , March 22, 2010, in English, accessed November 14, 2012
- ↑ Largest Waterbodies. In: ga.gov.au. Archived from the original on February 26, 2009 ; accessed on April 28, 2019 (English).
- ^ Lloyd D. Graham: The Creation of Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay) in Pintupi / Kukatja Dreamings . In: Australian Aboriginal Studies . No. 1/2003 . Aboriginal Studies Press, 2003, ISSN 0729-4352 , pp. 30-38 (English).
- ↑ Margo Birnberg, Janusz Kreczmanski: Aboriginal Artist Dictionary of Biographies: Australian Western, Central Desert and Kimberley region . JB Publishing, Marleston, South Australia 2004, ISBN 1-876622-47-4 , p. 216.
- ↑ Lake mackay Hare-wallaby, South Australian Museum ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.6 MB), accessed on April 2, 2010
