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20-584: The Kartudjara's traditional lands extended over 26,000 square kilometres (10,000 sq mi) from Madaleri , north of Kumpupintil Lake around Well 22 down southwest towards Pulpuruma (Well 12). Their western boundary lay on the southern side of the Rudall River ( Karlamilyi ) as far as the Robertson Range and the eastern headwaters of both the Jigalong and Savory Creeks . The country

40-581: A punitive expedition where he was out hunting "the blacks". The intruder agreed to converse with Hann but instead shot him in the chest at close range. Hann survived, but Flick was cornered and shot dead by other police in the early hours next morning. By 1895 economic conditions had taken a downturn resulting in Hann walking off the station. He decided to try his luck in the north of Western Australia, so in 1896 with six Aboriginal companions and 67 horses he travelled overland from Lawn Hill to Halls Creek. Once in

60-565: A business of supplying cattle to widespread goldfields throughout Queensland and the Northern Territory . In 1881 he acted as a guide on a survey for a proposed transcontinental railway in northern Queensland. He discovered deposits of silver and lead in the Lawn Hill area, but commercial operation of the finds did not occur until 100 years later, leading to the present name of Century Mine . Frank Hann and Jack Watson conducted

80-553: A great deal of the state while searching for mineral wealth and pastoral prospects. From 1903 he based himself in a tent about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) east of Laverton . His expeditions from the locality (shown as "Hann's Camp" on modern maps), extended as far as the Petermann Ranges in central Australia and Oodnadatta in South Australia. He left a legacy having named over 500 geographical features, including

100-466: A punitive massacre of Indigenous people on Waanyi country in 1883 and nailed the ears of forty people to the outside of the Lawn Hill homestead. An escaped Indigenous outlaw named Joe Flick nearly ended Hann's life in 1889. Flick was hiding in Hann's Lawn Hill homestead after fatally shooting an officer of the Native Police (Alfred Wavell), when Hann confronted him upon returning home from

120-667: Is dry, except during very wet periods such as the 1900 floods and in many recent tropical wet seasons since 1967. It lies on the Tropic of Capricorn , due east of the mining town of Newman and the Jigalong Community . It is at the northern side of the Little Sandy Desert and south of the Karlamilyi National Park . The Canning Stock Route passes down the western shores of the lake and

140-728: The Clarke River , a tributary of the Burdekin River. The properties included Lolworth, Maryvale and Kangerong Stations . The young Hann boys grew up handling cattle and when their father died in January 1864, followed by their mother in June the same year, they assumed responsibility for the family's share of the properties. Frank became manager of Lolworth prior to turning 20 years old. By 1875 he had done well enough to stock Lawn Hill Station with wild cattle, and for twenty years made

160-628: The Wanman and the Nyangumarta . The Kartudjara became, in recent times, one of the two core constituent tribal groups forming the Martu . That term actually signified "northerners", but originally was used primarily to denote people who had undergone initiation rites to become fully-fledged tribesmen. Some Kartudjara were received as "lawmen" by the coastal peoples to their west in the post-war period, since they, like other desert tribes, had conserved

180-669: The area, since the Ngayurnangalku, ancestral cannibal beings with pointy teeth and clawlike fingernails, are deemed capable of attacking even planes that intrude over the lake's airspace. The Aboriginal people told a story about how the Ngayurnangalku were split into the 'good' and the 'bad' over a debate on whether or not they should continue to eat people. One group decided that they would stop participating in cannibalism and were only kept safe by 'bodyguards'. The other group continued to follow cannibalism. Aboriginal stockmen would muffle their horses' bells so that they would not alert

200-479: The authorities stated that he was just exaggerating, but was also no longer in the employ of the Surveyor General. Brockman subsequently wrote that Hann did get him a skull but it was from a person who had died four years earlier. Hann maintained an association with an aboriginal man, Talbot, who seems to have been an assistant and possible companion. Daisy Bates , a good friend Hann's recalled: "Talbot

220-487: The cannibals to their presence when they approached the lake. The lake known to the Western Desert Martu people as Kumpupintil was named Lake Disappointment by the explorer Frank Hann in 1897. Hann was in the area exploring the east Pilbara, around Rudall River . He noticed creeks in the area flowed inland, and followed them, expecting to find a large fresh water lake. The lake was typically dry and so

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240-533: The rivers Rudall, Isdell, Charnley and Phillips (now the Hann); lakes Yeo and Rason; and ranges Mackay, Sir Frederick Bedford and McFadden Range . In 1909 Hann shocked people in Perth by a report saying that he had an encounter with Wongi warriors north of Laverton, and regretted not shooting one as he wanted to get a skull for Fred Brockman to send to London. When outrage followed, he retracted his statement and later

260-403: The surrounds consist mostly of sand dunes. Its elevation is 325 metres (1066 ft) above mean sea level. The lake is important to Martu people for spiritual and ceremonial reasons, as well as being an important place for water and traditional food. The lake is home to many species of water birds . The discovery of a new species of dragon lizard , Ctenophorus nguyarna , at the site

280-625: The traditional ceremonial lore that had been lost to tribes on the Indian Ocean's coastal areas. Kumpupintil Lake Kumpupintil Lake (pronounced goom-bu-pin-dil ), formerly known as Lake Disappointment , is an endorheic salt lake located in the Little Sandy Desert , east of the Pilbara region of Western Australia . Kumpupintil Lake is about 160 kilometres (99 mi) long and located 300 kilometres (190 mi) east of Newman. The 33,000-hectare (82,000-acre) lake typically

300-442: The west, despite being more than 50 years old, he carried out numerous expeditions partly financed by the government. In 1897 from a base at Nullagine , Hann explored the east Pilbara , and noticed creeks in the area flowed inland. He followed them expecting to find a large fresh water lake, but to his disappointment the lake turned out to be salt. Consequently, he named the feature Lake Disappointment . Hann's explorations covered

320-700: Was an Australian pastoralist and explorer. Hann was the son of Joseph and Elizabeth Hann. Fellow explorer William Hann was his older brother. They were born in Wiltshire , England and migrated with the family to the Western Port area of Victoria in 1851. In 1862 the family moved to the Burdekin River district, just north of Charters Towers in Queensland . The Hann family with Richard Daintree and two others took up several holdings along

340-576: Was announced in 2007. In indigenous culture, Kumpupintil was off-limits to the tribes neighbouring the area, such as the Kurajarra , Wanman , Kartudjara and the Putidjara . The reason for the taboo, existing down to modern times, derives from the lake's mythological associations with the Ngayurnangalku spirits thought to live below its surface. This prohibition extended to flying over

360-401: Was as well educated as Frank Hann, and stayed with him, on terms of equality, at all hotels. Talbot was a Normanton native, & a very well mannered man." "Hann ruined himself," wrote Daisy Bates,"in his generosity to the groups round & about him." In 1918 he was injured in an accident which left him on crutches after which he retired to Perth , where he died in 1921. Hann was buried in

380-521: Was characterized by endemic parallel sand-dune formations. Around the 1890s the Kartudjara pressured the Niabali to their northwest, off Savory Creek, forcing them to move roughly 97 kilometres (60 mi) to Balfour Downs. The Kartudjara thereafter went on to water at the Rudall River , which became in time their northern frontier. Their neighbours beyond the mulga were the spinifex plainsmen,

400-711: Was named Lake Disappointment. On November 11, 2020, Kumpupintil Lake was formally approved by the Western Australian Government agency Landgate as the official name, following a request from the traditional owners and the Western Desert Lands Aboriginal Corporation . The name "Kumpupintil" describes how the lake was made and is linked to a Martu creation story where Martu warriors fought mighty giants in an epic battle. Frank Hann Frank Hugh Hann (19 October 1845 – 21 August 1921)

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