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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).
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 ...
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.
Edmund Albert "Ted" Colson (3 June 1881 – 27 February 1950) was a bushman, pastoralist and pioneer who achieved recognition as the first person of European descent to cross the Simpson Desert. He was born in South Australia near Quorn at the southern end of the Flinders Ranges .
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.
The Munga-Thirri–Simpson Desert Regional Reserve (formerly Simpson Desert Regional Reserve) was a protected area located in the Australian state of South Australia within the gazetted locality of Simpson Desert. [2] [3] The regional reserve's name was altered on 2 August 2018 by the Government of South Australia. [4]