| Lake Carnegie | |
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&sq=&lang=&file=File:Australia_Western_Australia_relief_location_map.jpg)  Lake Carnegie Location in Western Australia | |
| Location | Goldfields-Esperance, Western Australia |
| Coordinates | 26°10′S 122°30′E / 26.167°S 122.500°E |
| Type | Ephemeral |
| Basin countries | Australia |
| Max. length | 100 km (62 mi) |
| Max. width | 30 km (19 mi) |
| Surface area | 5,714 km2 (2,206 sq mi) |
| Surface elevation | 439 m (1,440 ft) |
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Lake Carnegie is a large ephemeral lake in the Shire of Wiluna in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. The lake is named after David Carnegie, who explored much of inland Western Australia in the 1890s.[1][2][3][4] A similar lake lies to its south east - Lake Wells.
- ^ "Through WA Deserts". Kalgoorlie Western Argus. Kalgoorlie, Western Australia: National Library of Australia. 10 March 1898. p. 11. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
- ^ "Land systems: an Australian invention". Bush Heritage Australia. 2014. Archived from the original on 24 August 2014. Retrieved 20 June 2014.
- ^ Carnegie, David W. (David Wynford) (1973), Spinifex and sand : a narrative of five years pioneering and exploration in Western Australia (facsimile ed.), Penguin Books Australia, ISBN 978-0-14-070036-7
- ^ Peasley, W. J. (William John); Peasley, William J (2013), In the hands of providence : the desert journeys of David Carnegie, Carlisle, Western Australia Hesperian press, ISBN 978-0-85905-530-7