page_title: Lake Bumbunga
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Lake Bumbunga / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Lake Bumbunga, South Australia, showing the "Loch Eel" sculpture made of rubber typres and plastic. The photo was taken from Lochiel eastwards towards the locality of Bumbunga. The sculpture was erected in the 1970s as an allusion to the Loch Ness monster.
context_page_description: Lake Bumbunga is a salt lake located in South Australia's Mid North between the town of Lochiel and the farming locality of Bumbunga.
  Salt has been mined there almost continuously since 1881.
context_section_description: According to anthropologist Norman Tindale, the name Bumbunga derives from the Parnpangka (local indigenous) term for "rain water lake".
  Easily visible from Highway 1 for a distance of 10 km (6 mi), the 15 square km (5.8 square mi) Lake Bumbunga is a dramatic departure from the surrounding landscape due to its seasonal pink colouration and wide expanse. 
  The lake is the largest of a system of Quaternary Holocene saline lakes extending about 30 km (19 mi) north of Lochiel, draining an area to the east of the Barunga Range where it merges with the Hummock Range. Salt is dissolved from saline mud produced when winter rain fills the lake. Each summer a large portion of the lake dries up.
caption: Lake Bumbunga's humorous sculpture, "Loch Eel", is visible from the northern approaches to Lochiel township
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