# Lake Neale

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Body of water in Northern Territory, Australia

Lake Neale (Pantu) Lake Neale (Pantu) Location Petermann, Northern Territory[1] Coordinates 24°15′00″S 129°52′00″E / 24.25°S 129.8667°E / -24.25; 129.8667[1] Type Salt lake Basin countries Australia Max. length 64 km (40 mi) Surface area 300 km2 (120 sq mi) Surface elevation 457 m (1,499 ft)

**Lake Neale** (together with Lake Amadeus, [Pitjantjatjara](/source/Pitjantjatjara_dialect): ***Pantu***[2] ("salt lakes")) is a [salt lake](/source/Salt_lake) in the southwest corner of the [Northern Territory](/source/Northern_Territory) of [Australia](/source/Australia). It is on the north-western side of [Lake Amadeus](/source/Lake_Amadeus). The two lakes form part of a chain of salt lakes that stretches about 500 km (310 mi), from [Lake Hopkins](/source/Lake_Hopkins) in the west to the [Finke River](/source/Finke_River) in the east.[3] This [drainage basin](/source/Drainage_basin) is known as the Amadeus Basin.[4] The lake is usually a dry [salt pan](/source/Salt_pan_(geology)), and only holds water for short periods after heavy rainfall. Lake Neale is on [Aboriginal](/source/Aboriginal_Australians) land, held in the Petermann Aboriginal Land Trust. The [Haasts Bluff](/source/Haasts_Bluff%2C_Northern_Territory) lands are nearby to the north.[5]

## Description

Lake Neale was named after [Frank Neale](/source/Frank_Neale), one of the pilots of an aerial expedition to accurately survey the desert regions northwest of [Alice Springs](/source/Alice_Springs) in 1930. Neale flew one of the two planes that had been hired by explorer [Donald Mackay](/source/Donald_George_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](/source/Lake_Mackay), further to the north.[6][7]

The first [European](/source/White_people) to see Lake Neale was the explorer [Ernest Giles](/source/Ernest_Giles) in 1872. He was travelling towards [Kata Tjuta](/source/Kata_Tjuta) after sighting the peak from a distance, but Lake Amadeus blocked his path.[8] He sighted Lake Neale when he tried to reach [Mount Unapproachable](/source/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](/source/William_Tietkens) corrected this mistake in an expedition of his own seventeen years later.[9]

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-NT-Placenames_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-NT-Placenames_1-1) ["Search results for 'Lake Neale'"](http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/placenames/view.jsp?id=14320). *NT Place Names Register*. Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 20 January 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Ngura Nganampa Kunpu Kanyinma Keep on Looking After Our Country Strongly"](https://web.archive.org/web/20210324151550/https://www.clc.org.au/files/pdf/FINAL_CLC_KP_ManagementPlan2015webversion.pdf) (PDF). Archived from [the original](https://www.clc.org.au/files/pdf/FINAL_CLC_KP_ManagementPlan2015webversion.pdf) (PDF) on 24 March 2021. Retrieved 14 October 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-mccomb_3-0)** A. J. McComb, P. S. Lake (1988). [*The Conservation of Australian wetlands*](https://books.google.com/books?id=kUTwAAAAMAAJ). World Wildlife Fund Australia. p. 113. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780949324139](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780949324139).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-lazarides_4-0)** Michael Lazarides (1970). [*The grasses of Central Australia*](https://books.google.com/books?id=oks2AAAAMAAJ). Australian National University Press. p. xvi. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780708103883](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780708103883).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-ntgov_5-0)** ["Lake Amadeus and Lake Neale"](https://web.archive.org/web/20130518142437/http://lrm.nt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/13882/59_lakeamadeus.pdf) (PDF). *Sites of conservation significance*. Government of the Northern Territory, Department of Natural Resources, Environment, the Arts and Sport. p. 175. Archived from [the original](http://lrm.nt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/13882/59_lakeamadeus.pdf) (PDF) on 18 May 2013. Retrieved 30 March 2013.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-corke_6-0)** David Corke (22 March 2010). ["Aviation: The adventures of *Love Bird* and *Diamond Bird*"](https://web.archive.org/web/20120922104509/http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/aviation-the-adventures-of-love-bird-and-diamond-bird.htm). *Australian Geographic*. Archived from [the original](http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/aviation-the-adventures-of-love-bird-and-diamond-bird.htm) on 22 September 2012. Retrieved 13 June 2013.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-meggs_7-0)** Keith Raymond Meggs (2009). [*Australian-built aircraft and the industry*](https://books.google.com/books?id=Y0UeAQAAMAAJ). Vol. 1. Four Finger. p. 198. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9781920892777](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781920892777).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-stanton_8-0)** Jenny Stanton (2000). *The Australian Geographic Book of the Red Centre*. Terrey Hills, New South Wales. p. 44. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1862760136](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1862760136). {{[cite book](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_book)}}: |work= ignored ([help](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:CS1_errors#periodical_ignored))CS1 maint: location missing publisher ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_location_missing_publisher))

1. **[^](#cite_ref-feeken_9-0)** Erwin Herman Josef Feeken, Gerda Elisabeth Emma Feeken (1970). [*The discovery and exploration of Australia*](https://books.google.com/books?id=Tzs8AAAAMAAJ). Thomas Nelson. p. 191. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780170018128](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780170018128).

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