Lake Callabonna

The Lake is a dry salt lake Callabonna in the northeast of the Australian state of South Australia.

Geography

The lake, which is about 120 km southwest of the border triangle South Australia - New South Wales - Queensland, Cameron Corner, located, has no or almost no vegetation, but is an important locality for fossils from the late Pleistocene. It lies on the southern edge of the Strzelecki Desert. The Moppa - Collina -channel connects it to the Lake Blanche, another Great Salt Lake to the northwest of Lake Callabonna.

The Dingo fence runs along the west bank at the southernmost part of the Salt Lake.

History

The first pastoralists in the area were in 1881 the brothers Ragless who moved here from the Flinders Ranges and staked out a sheepfold. In January 1892 Fred Ragless accidentally found a number of huge skeletons that were embedded in the dry surface of the salt lake. Then, an expedition was fitted, which in part was financed by Sir Thomas Elder and EC Stirling, the former director of the South Australian Museum. In a series of visits, Stirling and Zietz AH secured a large amount of Diprotodon and thunder bird skeletons. 1901, the south end of the lake was as fossil site (English: Fossil Reserve ) and are limited public access.

External links and sources

• Lake Callabonna - SA. ExplorOz.com
• Map of Lake Callabonna, SA. Bonzle.com
• Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas. Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007 ISBN. 978-1-74193-232-4. p. 73
• Lake Callabonna reserve. Australian Heritage Database. Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. Australian Government

• Lake in Australia and Oceania
• Lake in South Australia
• Salt lake