Klaus Thorak

Klaus Eberhard Thorak (28 April 1921 – 26 January 1960) was a German born soldier and veterinarian who spent much of his life in the Northern Territory of Australia. He died in 1960 after a light plane crash in the Timor Sea.

Life in the Northern Territory In 1955 Thorak began working as the government veterinary officer in the Northern Territory where he was based in Darwin, and the family lived in Fannie Bay.

A massive sea rescue was performed, with the assistance of the Royal Australian Air Force, and it was then the biggest sea search operation in the Northern Territory. This search located some debris, which had been washed up on the Bathurst and Melville Islands but the plane and passengers were never found. Thorak Road, in Knuckey Lagoon.