{{Short description|Salt lake in Western Australia}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}} {{Use Australian English|date=July 2022}} {{Infobox lake | name = Lake Hopkins | image = File:Lake Hopkins WA 0117.svg | caption = | location = [[Northern Territory]] | coords = {{coord|24|15|S|128|50|E|region:AU_type:waterbody|display=inline,title}} | type = [[Salt lake]] | basin_countries = [[List of lakes of Australia|Australia]] | length = {{convert|42|km|abbr=on}} | width = {{convert|35|km|abbr=on}} |pushpin_map=Western Australia | area = | depth = | max-depth = | volume = | residence_time = | shore = | elevation = {{convert|441|m|abbr=on}} | mapframe = yes | mapframe-zoom = 12 }} '''Lake Hopkins''' is a [[salt lake]] in the east of [[Western Australia]] very close to the [[Northern Territory]] border.<ref>World Aeronautical Chart ICAO - 1:1000000 Petermann Ranges (3344) Jan 1972</ref> It is located to the west of [[Lake Neale]], which together with [[Lake Amadeus]] forms part of a chain of salt lakes that stretches about {{convert|500|km|abbr=on}}, from Lake Hopkins in the west to the [[Finke River]] in the east.<ref name="mccomb">{{cite book|title=The Conservation of Australian wetlands|author=A. J. McComb, P. S. Lake|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kUTwAAAAMAAJ|page=113|publisher=World Wildlife Fund Australia|year=1988|isbn=9780949324139}}</ref> This [[drainage basin]] is known as the Amadeus Basin.<ref name="lazarides">{{cite book|title=The grasses of Central Australia|year=1970|publisher=Australian National University Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oks2AAAAMAAJ|author=Michael Lazarides|page=xvi}}</ref> The lake is usually a dry [[Salt pan (geology)|salt pan]], and only holds water for short periods after heavy rainfall. Lake Hopkins has an elevation of 441 metres (1447 feet) above mean sea level.<ref>[http://www.ga.gov.au/elvis/ Geoscience Australia elevation data portal]</ref> The lake proved to be quite an obstacle to progress for [[Len Beadell]] during construction of the [[Sandy Blight Junction Road]] in 1960.<ref>{{cite book | author=Beadell, Len | title= Beating About the Bush | publisher=New Holland Publishers(Australia) | year=1976 |page=155| isbn=1876622156}}</ref> ==See also== * [[Lake Amadeus]] * [[Lake Neale]] * [[Sandy Blight Junction Road]] {{commons}}
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==External links== * [http://austhrutime.com/central_australian_groundwater_discharge_zone.htm Central Australian groundwater discharge zone] {{DEFAULTSORT:Hopkins}}
[[Category:Saline lakes of Western Australia]] [[Category:Lakes of Goldfields–Esperance (Western Australia)]]