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Lake Carey is a 
Mining activity and its discharge has affected the lake.
The Wangkathaa
A gold prospectors description of Lake Carey
Carey Carey, Lake
salt lake
A salt lake or saline lake is a landlocked body of water that has a concentration of salts (typically sodium chloride) and other dissolved minerals significantly higher than most lakes (often defined as at least three grams of salt per liter). I ...
located in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia
Western Australia (WA) is the westernmost state of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Aust ...
. It was named in 1869 by surveyor John Forrest
Sir John Forrest (22 August 1847 – 2 SeptemberSome sources give the date as 3 September 1918 1918) was an Australian explorer and politician. He was the first premier of Western Australia (1890–1901) and a long-serving cabinet minister in ...
in company with Tommy Windich, after Thomas Campbell Carey, the government surveyor to whom Forrest had been apprenticed in 1863.
Lake Carey is one of a chain of lakes that makes up the Carey Palaeodrainage system, formed during the Tertiary
Tertiary (from Latin, meaning 'third' or 'of the third degree/order..') may refer to:
* Tertiary period, an obsolete geologic period spanning from 66 to 2.6 million years ago
* Tertiary (chemistry), a term describing bonding patterns in organic ch ...
Period, from about 65 million years ago. The Carey Palaeodrainage system extends about from Wiluna to the Eucla Basin
The Eucla Basin is an artesian depression located in Western Australia and South Australia. The onshore-offshore depression covers approximately 1,141,000 km2 and slopes southward to an open bay known as the Great Australian Bight.
It exte ...
.
The elongated lake extends from to south of Laverton, within the Laverton Tectonic Zone, an area associated with gold
Gold is a chemical element; it has chemical symbol Au (from Latin ) and atomic number 79. In its pure form, it is a brightness, bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile metal. Chemically, gold is a transition metal ...
mining since the 1890s.
Mining activity and its discharge has affected the lake.
The Wangkathaa people
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are associated with the land around Lake Carey.
See also
*List of lakes of Western Australia
The following lists of lakes of Western Australia are arranged alphabetically:
* List of lakes of Western Australia, A–C (plus numerals)
* List of lakes of Western Australia, D–K
* List of lakes of Western Australia, L–P
*List of lakes of ...
References
External links
{{stack, {{Commons category, Minerals of Lake CareyA gold prospectors description of Lake Carey
Carey Carey, Lake