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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. [4]
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).
Although a number of explorers had probed the Simpson Desert from the mid 1800s, including Charles Sturt and Peter Warburton, none had made a successful crossing on foot. Cecil Madigan had made an aerial reconnaissance in 1929, which proved that the desert was composed of numerous parallel sand dunes, with no evidence of permanent water. [3]
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.
It is a popular tourist destination with many people using it as a starting point across the Simpson Desert. Betoota is a ghost town to the east of the town of Birdsville within the bounds of the locality.( 25°41′40″S 140°44′39″E / 25.6944°S 140.7441°E / -25.6944; 140.7441 ( Betoota
Cecil Madigan's frostbitten face, Adelie Land (Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914), by Frank Hurley.. Cecil Thomas Madigan (15 October 1889 – 14 January 1947) was an Australian explorer and geologist, academic, aerial surveyor, meteorologist, author and officer of the British army.
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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.