Lake Mackay is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located on the territory’s south-west adjoining the border with the state of Western Australia about 1,202 kilometres (747 mi) south of the territory capital of Darwin and about 458 kilometres (285 mi) west of the municipal seat in Alice Springs.[1][3]
| Lake Mackay Northern Territory | |||||||||||||||
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  Lake Mackay | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 22°34′05″S 129°49′46″E / 22.568°S 129.8295°E[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 5 (2016 census)[2] | ||||||||||||||
| • Density | 0/km2 (0.000166/sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 4 April 2007[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 0872[3] | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 454 m (1,490 ft)(weather station)[4] | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 77,857 km2 (30,060.8 sq mi)[5] | ||||||||||||||
| Time zone | ACST (UTC+9:30) | ||||||||||||||
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| Territory electorate(s) | Stuart[7] | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Lingiari[8] | ||||||||||||||
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| Footnotes | Locations[3] Adjoining localities[9][10][6][a] | ||||||||||||||
The locality consists of the following land (from north to south): the Lake Mackay Aboriginal Land Trust, the Mount Doreen Station pastoral property, the former Newhaven Station pastoral property and the western part of the Haasts Bluff Aboriginal Land Trust. It fully surrounds the localities of Kintore and Nyirripi.[11][12]
The Tanami Road passes through the locality from Yuendumu in the south to the north-west via Mount Dooreen Station on its way to Halls Creek.[13]
The locality’s boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007. Its name is derived from Lake Mackay, the “intermittent lake feature on the Northern Territory/Western Australian border” which is located within the locality’s boundaries and which itself was named in 1934 after the explorer and long-distance cyclist, Donald Mackay.[1]
The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Lake Mackay had five people living within its boundaries.[2]
Lake Mackay is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Stuart and the local government areas of the Central Desert Region and the MacDonnell Region.[8][7][10][6]
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- ^ a b c d e "Place Names Register Extract for Lake Mackay (locality)". NT Place Names Register. Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
- ^ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Lake Mackay (State Suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
- ^ a b c "Lake Mackay Postcode". postcode-finders.com.au. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
- ^ a b c d "Monthly climate statistics: Summary Walungurru Airport (nearest weather station)". Commonwealth of Australia , Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
- ^ "Lake Mackay". Australias Guide Pty Ltd. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
- ^ a b c "MacDonnell Shire (sic) (map)" (PDF). Northern Territory Government. 2 April 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 March 2018. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
- ^ a b "Division of Stuart". Northern Territory Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 20 March 2020. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
- ^ a b "Federal electoral division of Lingiari". Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
- ^ "Lake Mackay". NT Atlas and Spatial Data Directory. Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
- ^ a b "Central Desert Shire (sic) (map)" (PDF). Northern Territory Government. 2 April 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 March 2019. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
- ^ a b "Localities within the Tanami sub-region (CP 5083)". NT Place Names Register. Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
- ^ "Northern Territory Pastoral Properties" (PDF). Northern Territory Government. 2003. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 April 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
- ^ Upgrading the Tanami Road - Economic Impact Study (PDF), Cummings Economics, October 2011, pp. 8–10, retrieved 13 January 2020
