Lake Callabonna
Lake Callabonna | |
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Location in South Australia | |
Location | Far North, South Australia |
Coordinates | 29°43′S 140°05′E / 29.717°S 140.083°E |
Type | Salt lake |
Basin countries | Australia |
Designation | Strzelecki Regional Reserve (only partially) Lake Callabonna Fossil Reserve |
Surface area | 160 km2 (62 sq mi)[1] |
Lake Callabonna is a dry salt lake with little to no vegetation located in the Far North region of South Australia. The 160-square-kilometre (62 sq mi)[1] lake is situated approximately 120 kilometres (75 mi) southwest of Cameron Corner, the junction of South Australia, Queensland and New South Wales. It is also known as Lake Mulligan.[2]
The lake is an important site for late
History
The first pastoralists in the area were the Ragless brothers in 1881, who moved there from the northern Flinders Ranges, opening a sheep-run. The station owner in 1892, F. B. Ragless, was shown a number of giant skeletons embedded in the dry surface of the lake, discovered two days before by an Aboriginal station hand named Jackie Nolan. The South Australian Museum sent a worker, H. Hurst, to investigate the site and four months later the results were delivered to the museum. After examination of the skeletons an expedition funded by Sir Thomas Elder and E. C. Stirling, director of the South Australian Museum, was organised and Hurst led the team back to the site before being dismissed.[5] After several visits, Stirling and A. H. C. Zietz collected a large number of diprotodon and dromornithidae skeletons. The area was designated a Fossil Reserve in 1901, and access is restricted.
Protected area status
Strzelecki Regional Reserve
The northern end of Lake Callabonna is within the boundary of the Strzelecki Regional Reserve.[6]
Lake Callabonna Fossil Reserve
Lake Callabonna is the location of a site where the “articulated skeletons of
See also
References
- ^ a b "Map of Lake Callabonna, SA". Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
- ^ "Lake Callabonna, feature SA0011652", Gazetteer of Australia
- ^ "Lake Callabonna Reserve, Mount Hopeless via Lyndhurst, SA, Australia". Australian Government, Department of Environment. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
- ^ "IBA: Strzelecki Desert Lakes". Birdata. Birds Australia. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
- ISBN 0730103153.
- ^ ""Figure 2 Lake Frome & Strzelecki Regional Reserves, Land Systems" from A Review of Lake Frome and Strzelecki Regional Reserves – 1991 – 2001" (PDF). Department for Environment and Heritage. 2002. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
- ^ "A Review of Lake Frome and Strzelecki Regional Reserves – 1991 – 2001" (PDF). Department for Environment and Heritage. 2002. p. 7. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
- ^ "Late Pleistocene Vertebrate Fossils Site (Lake Callabonna Fossil Reserve) (designated place of palaeontological significance)". South Australian Heritage Register. Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. Archived from the original on 15 February 2016. Retrieved 12 February 2016.