Some background to the myths surrounding Lake Disappointment...

Some background to the myths surrounding Lake Disappointment from:

http://www.naturebase.net/component/option,com_hotproperty/task,view/id,51/Itemid,755/


"Lake Disappointment, just south of the park, was strictly avoided by all the groups whose territories bounded on it. Being a salt lake, it offered little in the way of resources for the Aboriginal people, but it was more than this that kept them away. They had a great fear of the Ngayurnangalku mythological beings, who lived in a subterranean world beneath the lake, and not even the bravest of the desert dwellers would dare set foot there. Today, the lake, its surroundings and even the airspace above it, are still considered to be taboo areas to all humans, as the Ngayurnangalku are believed to have the power to pull aircraft down from the sky to crash on the lake's surface".