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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).
Tim Rogers, 2022. The Big Red Bash is an annual music festival held in the Simpson Desert, 35 kilometres west of Birdsville in Queensland, Australia. The music is mostly Australian Rock. The festival emphasizes fundraising. The first Big Red Bash occurred in 2013. In 2023, the event drew more than 11,000 visitors to the red centre. [1]
The Simpson Desert got its name from Allen Simpson, a geographer who ventured into this desert in 1845. The name was suggested by explorer and geologist Cecil Madigan. In 1936, Edmund Colson became the first white man to cross the Simpson Desert. Before that, the great Australian explorers Charles Sturt and David Lindsay had failed.
Colson Track is a remote dirt track in Australia running between Numery Station in Hale, Northern Territory, and the Simpson Desert in South Australia. [3] It is named in honour of Ted Colson , the first person of European descent to make a successful crossing of the Simpson Desert on foot.
The principal land use within the locality is conservation, with the full extent of the locality being occupied by the Munga-Thirri–Simpson Desert National Park, which was proclaimed on 26 November 2021 and includes the former protected areas of the Munga-Thirri–Simpson Desert Conservation Park and the Munga-Thirri–Simpson Desert Regional ...
Ethabuka Reserve is a 213,300 ha (527,000-acre) nature reserve in Central West Queensland, Australia, 157 km (98 mi) north-west of Bedourie, 336 km (209 mi) south-west of Boulia and 639 km (397 mi) south of Mount Isa.
The landscape comprises mainly rugged outback wilderness and desert, including some of the most arid parts of the continent, with a Köppen climate classification of BWh hot desert. In the north-east are the Simpson Desert, Tirari Desert, Painted Desert and Pedirka Desert. To the north and north-west is the Great Victoria Desert. The Far North ...
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.