Lake Carey

For the lake in Minnesota, see Carey Lake.

Lake Carey is a salt lake located in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. It was named in 1869 by surveyor John Forrest in company with Tommy Windich, after Thomas Campbell Carey, the government surveyor to whom Forrest had been apprenticed in 1863.^[2][3]

Lake Carey
Lake Carey Location in Western Australia
Location	Goldfields-Esperance, Western Australia
Coordinates	29°06′00″S 122°19′38″E
Type	Salt lake
Primary outflows	Lake Minigwal
Catchment area	6,000 square kilometres (2,300 sq mi)[1]
Basin countries	Australia

Lake Carey is one of a chain of lakes that makes up the Carey Palaeodrainage system, formed during the Tertiary Period, from about 65 million years ago. The Carey Palaeodrainage system extends about 600 kilometres (373 mi) from Wiluna to the Eucla Basin.^[4]

The elongated lake extends from 25 kilometres (16 mi) to 90 kilometres (56 mi) south of Laverton, within the Laverton Tectonic Zone, an area associated with gold mining since the 1890s.^[1][5][6][7]

Gold specimen from Lake Carey area, 77 grams (2.5 ozt)

Mining activity and its discharge has affected the lake.^[8]

The Wangkathaa people are associated with the land around Lake Carey.^[9][10]

See also

• Western Australia portal

• List of lakes of Western Australia

References

1. Timms, B.V.; Datson, B.; Coleman, M. (2006). "The wetlands of the Lake Carey catchment, northeast Goldfields of Western Australia, with special reference to large branchiopods" (pdf). Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia. 89: 175–183. ISSN 0035-922X. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
2. "The Return of Mr Forrest's Expedition". The Perth Gazette and West Australian Times. 6 August 1896. p. 2. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
3. Kimberly, Warren Bert (1897). "Sir John Forrest, K.C.M,G., F.R.G.S., F.G.S., &c.". History of West Australia. Melbourne: F. W. Niven & Co. p. 1. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
4. Datson, Bindy (2 March 2012). "Tecticornia Review" (PDF). Environmental Protection Authority. Perth, WA: Actis Environmental Services. p. 4. Archived from the original (pdf) on 16 March 2016. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
5. "History of country town names – L". Western Australian Land Information Authority. Archived from the original on 14 March 2022. Retrieved 25 May 2007. (under Linden)
6. "West Australia - The Discoveries at Lake Carey". Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal (NSW : 1851 - 1904). NSW: National Library of Australia. 25 July 1894. p. 2. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
7. Gray, D. J; Britt, A. F (2008), Supergene gold dispersion in the regolith at the Cleo deposit, Western Australia (2nd impression ed.), CRC Leme, ISBN 978-1-921039-69-0
8. Gregory, S. J; Ward, M. J; John, J (1 June 2009), "Changes in the chemistry and biota of Lake Carey: a large salt lake impacted by hypersaline discharge from mining operations in Western Australia.(Report)", Hydrobiologia, 625 (1), Springer: 53, doi:10.1007/s10750-009-9744-6, ISSN 0018-8158
9. "Aboriginal People in Western Australia" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 February 2012. (200 KiB)
10. Mattner, Chris Joe; University of New England. School of Human and Environmental Studies (2000), Salt lakes & Aboriginal settlement : a case study at Lake Carey, southeast Western Australia, retrieved 11 February 2016

External links

• A gold prospectors description of Lake Carey
• MSN map of Lake Carey