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The Simpson Desert is a large area of dry, red sandy plain and dunes in the Northern Territory, South Australia and Queensland in central Australia. [1] [2] It is the fourth-largest Australian desert, with an area of 176,500 km 2 (68,100 sq mi).
Simpson Desert is located within the federal division of Grey, the state electoral district of Stuart, the Pastoral Unincorporated Area of South Australia and the state’s Far North region. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ]
A new national park was created by combining the Munga-Thirri–Simpson Desert Conservation Park with the Regional Reserve in November 2021, creating Australia's largest national park. At 3,600,000 ha (14,000 sq mi), [ 10 ] [ 11 ] it is double the size of Kakadu National Park , and four times the size of Yellowstone National Park in the US.
Munga-Thirri National Park, formerly known as the Simpson Desert National Park, is the largest national park in Queensland, Australia, 1,495 km west of Brisbane. [1] The park covers an area of 10,120 square kilometres (3,910 sq mi) in the Simpson Desert surrounding Poeppel Corner in the west of the locality of Birdsville in the Central West region of Queensland.
The northern terminus is marked by a sign near the boundary of Numery Station. The southern terminus of the track is at Lynnies Junction, where it meets with the WAA Line, just east of Rig Road, in the western Simpson Desert. The length of the track is 336 km, much of which is in swales between sand dunes. The track is defined only by wheel ...
In dry conditions, a shorter route at the northern end depicted on maps as the "Inside track" saves 35 kilometres in distance. [8] Other than this, the road has no major intersections. Fuel, supplies and facilities, including a hotel, can be found on the track at the Mungeranie station, 204 km from Marree and 313 km from Birdsville.
Australia map with named state corners. Poeppel Corner is about 174 km west of Birdsville, in the middle of the Simpson Desert. [1]New Year's Eve occurs three times each year at thirty minute intervals in Poeppel Corner (also in Cameron Corner and Surveyor Generals Corner), because it is at the intersection of three time zones.
Dalhousie Springs, also known as Witjira-Dalhousie Springs, [1] is a group of over 60 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. They are about 250 kilometres (160 mi) southeast of Alice Springs. [1]