{{Short description|Body of water in Northern Territory, Australia}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Infobox lake | name = Lake Neale<br/>''(Pantu)'' | image = File:Lake Neale NT 0117.svg | caption = | location = [[Petermann, Northern Territory]]<ref name="NT-Placenames"/> | coords = {{coord|24.25|S|129.8667|E|region:AU_type:waterbody|format=dms|display=inline,title}}<ref name="NT-Placenames">{{cite web| title=Search results for 'Lake Neale' |url=http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/placenames/view.jsp?id=14320|website= NT Place Names Register|publisher=Northern Territory Government|accessdate= 20 January 2020}}</ref> | type = [[Salt lake]] | basin_countries = [[List of lakes of Australia|Australia]] | length = {{convert|64|km|abbr=on}} | width = | area = {{convert|300|km2|abbr=on}} | depth = | max-depth = | volume = | residence_time = | shore = | elevation = {{convert|457|m|abbr=on}} | pushpin_map = Australia Northern Territory | pushpin_label_position = bottom | pushpin_map_alt = | pushpin_map_caption= | website = | reference = }} '''Lake Neale''' (together with Lake Amadeus, [[Pitjantjatjara dialect|Pitjantjatjara]]: '''''Pantu'''''<ref>{{cite web |title=Ngura Nganampa Kunpu Kanyinma Keep on Looking After Our Country Strongly |url=https://www.clc.org.au/files/pdf/FINAL_CLC_KP_ManagementPlan2015webversion.pdf |accessdate=14 October 2020 |archive-date=24 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210324151550/https://www.clc.org.au/files/pdf/FINAL_CLC_KP_ManagementPlan2015webversion.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> ("salt lakes")) is a [[salt lake]] in the southwest corner of the [[Northern Territory]] of [[Australia]]. It is on the north-western side of [[Lake Amadeus]]. The two lakes form 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"/> This [[drainage basin]] is known as the Amadeus Basin.<ref name="lazarides"/> The lake is usually a dry [[Salt pan (geology)|salt pan]], and only holds water for short periods after heavy rainfall. Lake Neale is on [[Aboriginal Australians|Aboriginal]] land, held in the Petermann Aboriginal Land Trust. The [[Haasts Bluff, Northern Territory|Haasts Bluff]] lands are nearby to the north.<ref name="ntgov"/>
==Description== Lake Neale was named after [[Frank Neale]], one of the pilots of an aerial expedition to accurately survey the desert regions northwest of [[Alice Springs]] in 1930. Neale flew one of the two planes that had been hired by explorer [[Donald George Mackay|Donald Mackay]] for the expedition. The team made 15 survey flights over 24 days, in which they mapped the dimensions of Lakes Amadeus and Neale and found the even larger [[Lake Mackay]], further to the north.<ref name="corke"/><ref name="meggs"/>
The first [[White people|European]] to see Lake Neale was the explorer [[Ernest Giles]] in 1872. He was travelling towards [[Kata Tjuta]] after sighting the peak from a distance, but Lake Amadeus blocked his path.<ref name="stanton"/> He sighted Lake Neale when he tried to reach [[Mount Unapproachable]], on the northern side of the lake. He was coming from the east, and did not notice a land bridge between Neale and Amadeus, mistaking them as the one lake. [[William Tietkens]] corrected this mistake in an expedition of his own seventeen years later.<ref name="feeken"/>
==References== {{reflist|2|refs= <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> <ref name="corke">{{cite web|url=http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/aviation-the-adventures-of-love-bird-and-diamond-bird.htm|title=Aviation: The adventures of ''Love Bird'' and ''Diamond Bird''|author=David Corke|date=22 March 2010|work=Australian Geographic|access-date=13 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120922104509/http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/aviation-the-adventures-of-love-bird-and-diamond-bird.htm|archive-date=22 September 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> <ref name="meggs">{{cite book|title=Australian-built aircraft and the industry|volume=1|author=Keith Raymond Meggs|page=198|year=2009|publisher=Four Finger|isbn=9781920892777|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y0UeAQAAMAAJ}}</ref> <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|isbn=9780708103883 }}</ref> <ref name="ntgov">{{cite web|title=Lake Amadeus and Lake Neale|publisher=Government of the Northern Territory, Department of Natural Resources, Environment, the Arts and Sport|page=175|url=http://lrm.nt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/13882/59_lakeamadeus.pdf|work=Sites of conservation significance|accessdate=30 March 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130518142437/http://lrm.nt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/13882/59_lakeamadeus.pdf|archivedate=18 May 2013}}</ref> <ref name="stanton">{{cite book|title=The Australian Geographic Book of the Red Centre|author=Jenny Stanton|year=2000|work=Australian Geographic|location=Terrey Hills, New South Wales|isbn=1862760136|page=44}}</ref> <ref name="feeken">{{cite book|title=The discovery and exploration of Australia|year=1970|publisher=Thomas Nelson|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tzs8AAAAMAAJ|author=Erwin Herman Josef Feeken, Gerda Elisabeth Emma Feeken|page=191|isbn=9780170018128 }}</ref> }}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Neale}} [[Category:Saline lakes of the Northern Territory]]