Lake Mackay

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Lake Mackay is one of hundreds of dry lakebeds scattered throughout Western Australia and the Northern Territory.
Lake Mackay features prominently in the Aboriginal Dreaming narratives of the Western Desert. The main mythological accounts of its origins can be clustered into three distinct themes, all of which contain references to a fierce bushfire that devastated the land and formed the lake. The lake is the largest in in Western Australia and has a surface area of 3,494 square kilometres (1,349 sq mi).


The lake, known as Wilkinkarra to the local Indigenous population, was the birthplace of prominent Indigenous artist Linda Syddick Napaltjarri.

The lake contains vast reserves of Potassium Sulfate. This valuable resource is being developed using. mostly. solar power.