Lake Carey
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "For". Template:Use Australian English Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Infobox body of water tracking".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 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.[1][2]
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 Script error: No such module "convert". from Wiluna to the Eucla Basin.[3]
The elongated lake extends from Script error: No such module "convert". to Script error: No such module "convert". south of Laverton, within the Laverton Tectonic Zone, an area associated with gold mining since the 1890s.[4][5][6][7]
Mining activity and its discharge has affected the lake.[8]
The Wangkathaa people are associated with the land around Lake Carey.[9][10]
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