 Ted Colson's expedition across the Simpson Desert in 1936 The Simpson Desert occupies approximately 170,000 square kilometres of central Australia[1]. It is bounded to the west by the Finke River and Mabel Range, to the north by Adam Range, to the east by the Georgina and Diamantina Rivers, with Lake Eyre to the south. Average annual rainfall is less than 200 mm. Image File history File links B9113_22_simpson_desert. ...
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The Georgina River is the north-westernmost of the three major rivers of the Channel Country in western Queensland that flow in extremely wet years into Lake Eyre. ...
The Diamantina River is a river in Queensland, Australia. ...
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The Simpson Desert is underlain by the Great Artesian Basin, water from which rises to the surface at numerous natural springs, including Dalhousie Springs, and at bores drilled along stock routes, or during gas and oil exploration. As a result of exploitation by such bores, the flow of water to springs has been steadily decreasing in recent years. Lightning Ridge bathing thermes supplied by artesian bore water Hot water bore hole into the Great Artesian Basin in Thargomindah The Great Artesian Basin provides the only reliable source of water through much of inland Australia. ...
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Dalhousie Springs are natural artesian springs located in Witjira National Park on the western fringe of the Simpson Desert, 180 kilometres northeast of Oodnadatta in northern South Australia. ...
Bore may refer to: A wave in a river caused by an incoming tide - see tidal bore The diameter of a pipe or tube, or the caliber of a gun The diameter of a cylinder and piston in a piston engine (See also: Stroke) A person who is boring The...
Pumpjack pumping an oil well near Lubbock, Texas Ignacy Åukasiewicz - inventor of the refining of kerosene from crude oil. ...
The Simpson Desert is an erg which contains the world's longest parallel sand dunes. These north-south oriented dunes are static, held in position by vegetation. They vary in height from 3 metres in the west to around 30 metres on the eastern side. The most famous dune, Nappanerica, or, more popularly, Big Red (named by Simpson Desert traveller Dennis Bartell), is 40 metres in height. Issaouane Erg, Algeria. ...
This article is about the sand formations, for other meanings see Dune (disambiguation) Mesquite Flat Dunes in Death Valley National Park In physical geography, a dune is a hill of sand built by eolian (wind-related) processes. ...
The explorer Charles Sturt, who visited the region in 1845, was the first European to see the desert, but it was not until 1936 that Ted Colson became the first white man to cross it in its entirety. The name Simpson Desert was coined by Cecil Madigan in 1939, after Alfred Allen Simpson, an Australian philanthropist, geographer, and president of the Royal Geographical Society of S.A. Charles Sturt c. ...
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In the Simpson Desert, 1939 Cecil Thomas Madigan (15 October 1889 - 14 January 1947) was an Australian explorer and geologist born in Renmark, South Australia. ...
Alfred Allen Simpson was Mayor of Adelaide from 1913 to 1915. ...
No maintained roads cross the desert. However, there are tracks that were made during seismic surveys in the search for gas and oil during the 1960s and 1970s. These include the French Line, the Rig Road, and the QAA Line. Such tracks are still navigable by well-equipped four-wheel-drive vehicles which must carry extra fuel and water. Towns providing access to the edge of the Simpson Desert include Oodnadatta to the southwest, and Birdsville in the east. A section of the Commonwealth Railways Trans-Australian line passes through the western side of the Simpson Desert. Oodnadatta, South Australia (27°32′ S 135°26′ E) is located in the heart of the desert 112 m above sea level, 1,011 km north of Adelaide. ...
Location of Birdsville in Queensland (red) Birdsville () is a small town located in Western Queensland, Australia. ...
Looking east on the Trans-Australia Railway from Cook, South Australia The Trans-Australian Railway crosses the Nullarbor Plain from Port Augusta in South Australia to Kalgoorlie in Western Australia and contains the longest straight stretch of track in the world. ...
References
- ^ About the Park. Department of Environment and Heritage, South Australia. Retrieved on 2006-07-17.
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External links - Into the Simpson Desert: audio blog at the National Museum of Australia
- Aerial Video footage of the Simpson Desert
See also
 4WD touring in the Simpson Desert requires careful preparation. | Deserts | Ad-Dahna · Alvord · Arabian · Aral Karakum · Atacama · Baja California · Barsuki · Betpak-Dala · Chalbi · Chihuahuan · Dasht-e Kavir · Dasht-e Lut · Dasht-e Margoh · Dasht-e Naomid · Gibson · Gobi · Great Basin · Great Sandy Desert · Great Victoria Desert · Kalahari · Karakum · Kyzylkum · Libyan · Little Sandy Desert · Mojave · Monte · Namib · Nefud · Negev · Nubian · Ordos · Owyhee · Patagonian · Qaidam · Registan · Rub' al Khali · Ryn-Peski · Sahara · Saryesik-Atyrau · Sechura · Simpson · Sonoran · Strzelecki · Syrian · Taklamakan · Tanami · Thar · Tihamah · Ustyurt Image File history File links Rrsimpson. ...
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Simpson Desert is the largest National Park in Queensland (Australia), 1495 km west of Brisbane. ...
Simpson Desert Regional Reserve is located in South Australia, 957 km north of Port Augusta. ...
Simpson Desert Regional Reserve is located in South Australia. ...
The Australasia Ecozone The Australasian ecozone – is an ecological region that is coincident, but not synonymous (by some definitions), with the geographic region of Australasia. ...
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For the act of abandoning or withdrawing support from an entity, see desertion. ...
The ad-Dahna desert is the central division of the Arabian desert. ...
The Alvord Desert is a desert in the southeastern part of the American state of Oregon. ...
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The Aral Karakum desert lies north of the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan. ...
Atacama Desert The Atacama Desert is a virtually rainless plateau in South America, extending 966 km (600 mi) between t It is created by the rain shadow of the Andes east of the desert. ...
The Baja California desert is a Desert ecoregion of Mexicos Baja California Peninsula. ...
The Chihuahuan Desert is a desert that straddles the U.S.-Mexico border. ...
Dasht-e Kavir desert: satellite photograph Dasht-e Kavir (دشت كوير in Persian), also known as Kavir-e Namak or Great Salt Desert is a large desert lying in the middle of the Iranian Plateau. ...
As seen from space Dasht-e Lut is a large salt desert in southeastern Iran. ...
A four wheel drive in the Gibson Desert The Gibson Desert is a Western Australian desert made up of sandhills and dry grass. ...
The Gobi is a large desert region in northern China and southern Mongolia. ...
Drainage map showing the Great Basin in orange Various Definitions of the Great Basin (NPS) The Great Basin is a large, arid region of the western United States. ...
Location of deserts in Australia This article is about the Australian desert. ...
The Great Victoria Desert is a barren, arid and sparsely populated desert ecoregion in southern Australia. ...
The Kalahari Desert is a large arid to semi-arid sandy area in southern Kgalagadi Africa extending 900,000 km² (362,500 sq. ...
For the desert in Kazakhstan, see Aral Karakum. ...
The Kyzyl Kum (Uzbek: , Kazakh: ), also called Qyzylqum is the 11th largest desert in the world. ...
The Little Sandy Desert is desert in Australia, located in Western Australia near the Great Sandy Desert. ...
For the indigenous American tribe, see Mohave. ...
The Monte Desert, is a South American desert, located within the country of Argentina. ...
Dune 7, one of the highest sand dunes in the world (ca. ...
The Nefud or An-Nafud is a desert area in the northern part of the Arabian peninsula, occupying a great oval depression; 180 mi (290 km) long and 140 mi (225 km) wide. ...
Rock face in the Negev Desert near Beersheba on the way to Eilat. ...
Fragment of Nubian Desert seen from space The Nubian Desert, is in the eastern region of the Sahara Desert, it spans 407, 000 km2 or 157,000 square miles of northeastern Sudan between the Nile and the Red Sea, at . ...
Ordos Desert 1912 The Ordos Desert (Chinese: é„‚å°”å¤šæ–¯æ²™æ¼ ; Pinyin: ÈěrduÅsÄ« ShÄmò) is a desert and steppe region lying on a plateau in the south of the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region of the Peoples Republic of China. ...
Astronaut photography of the Patagonian Desert (most of the view) contrasted with the Limay River, seen flowing eastward from the Andes. ...
Qaidam, also spelt Tsaidam, is an arid basin in Qinghai, western China. ...
The Rub al Khali (الربع الخالي), or Empty Quarter, is the largest sand desert in the world, encompassing the southern third of the Arabian Peninsula, including southern Saudi Arabia, and areas of Oman, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen. ...
The Ryn Desert or Ryn-Peski Desert, is a desert in western Kazakhstan, north of the Caspian Sea and southeast of the Volga Upland. ...
The Saryesik Atyrau Desert stretches for about 400 km south of Lake Balkhash in eastern Kazakhstan. ...
The Sechura desert is a desert ecoregion of coastal Peru. ...
Map of the Mojave and Sonoran deserts. ...
Bore Track in the Strzelecki Desert, South Australia. ...
Dust storm in Taklamakan Desert from space, June 25, 2005 The Taklamakan Desert (also Taklimakan) is a desert of Central Asia, in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the Peoples Republic of China. ...
The Tanami Desert is a desert in northern Australia. ...
A NASA satellite image of the Thar Desert, with the India-Pakistan border superimposed is found in canada, united states. ...
Tihamah or Tihama (Arabic: []) is a narrow coastal region of Arabia on the Red Sea. ...
The Ustyurt Plateau, Ustyurt also spelled Ust-Urt and Usturt (Kazakh: Ãœstirt, Turkmen: Ãœstyurt), is a central Asian plateau in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, between the Aral Sea and the Caspian Sea. ...
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