Extract date: 05/12/2024
| Name | Lake Neale |
|---|---|
| Type Designation | Inter. Lake |
| Place Id | 14320 |
| Place Type | Feature |
| Status | Recorded |
| Date Registered | |
| Location (Datum GDA94) | |
| Latitude: -24° 15' S (Decimal degrees -24.25) | |
| Longitude: 129° 52' E (Decimal degrees 129.8667) | |
| Locality / Suburb | |
| Petermann | |
| Local Government Area | |
| MacDonnell Shire Council | |
| History/Origin | Lake Neale was named during the Donald Mackay Aerial Survey Expedition of Central Australia in the 1930s. Commander HT Bennett in report of 21 August 1930 to the leader of the Expedition wrote "a lake north west of Lake Amadeus, I have named Lake Neale after Captain Frank Neale, pilot of the "Love Bird" who carried out all the survey flights." Frank Neale, chief pilot of the Mackay Expediton, died in Victoria in December 1979, aged 84. According to Edward Wixted in "The North-west Aerial Frontier:1919-1934" pub: Boolarong Publications, Qld, 1985, "Frank Neale ranks as one of the great aerial achievers of Australian history. In his own time his reputation was substancial and he rubbed shoulders on equal terms with men like Kingsford Smith and Bert Hinkler." |
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