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85 relations: Adelaide–Darwin railway, Alfred Allen Simpson, Andado, Astrebla, Australasian realm, Australia, Australian pelican, Banded stilt, Bedourie, Queensland, Bioregion, Birdsville, Bladensburg National Park, Boulia, Queensland, Bush Heritage Australia, Cecil Madigan, Channel Country, Charles Sturt, Colson Track, Coongie Lakes, Cooper Creek, Cyclorana, Dalhousie Springs, David Lindsay (explorer), Department for Environment and Water (South Australia), Department of the Environment and Water Resources, Desert climate, Deserts of Australia, Donohue Highway, Dune, Dust storm, Ecoregion, Erg (landform), Ethabuka Reserve, Eucalyptus coolabah, Europe, Eyrean grasswren, Foreset bed, Freckled duck, Glossy ibis, Goneaway National Park, Government of Australia, Great Artesian Basin, Great egret, Grey grasswren, Haddon Corner, Innamincka Regional Reserve, Innamincka, South Australia, Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia, Iron oxide, Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre National Park, ..., Kowari, Lake Eyre, Lake Eyre basin, List of deserts by area, List of ecoregions in Australia, Lochern National Park, Louis-Philippe Loncke, Men's Journal, Munga-Thirri National Park, Musk duck, National Museum of Australia, Northern Territory, Oodnadatta, Petroleum, Poeppel Corner, Quartz, Queensland, Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, Sebastian Copeland, Silver gull, Simpson Desert, Simpson Desert Conservation Park, Simpson Desert Important Bird Area, Simpson Desert Regional Reserve, Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields, South Australia, Strzelecki Creek, Ted Colson, Thargomindah, Triodia (grass), Water well, Windorah, Witjira National Park, World Wide Fund for Nature, Zygochloa. Expand index (35 more) »
Adelaide–Darwin railway
| | The Adelaide–Darwin railway is a 2,979 kilometre south-north transcontinental railway in Australia, between the cities of Adelaide and Darwin.
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Alfred Allen Simpson
Alfred Allen Simpson (15 April 1875 – 27 November 1939) was an industrialist in South Australia and a partner in the firm A. Simpson & Son, founded by his grandfather Alfred Simpson.
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Andado
Andado Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station in the Alice Springs region of the Northern Territory.
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Astrebla
Astrebla is a small genus of xerophytic (adapted to survive in an environment with little liquid water) grasses found only in Australia They are the dominant grass across much of the continent.
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Australasian realm
The Australasian realm is a biogeographic realm that is coincident, but not synonymous (by some definitions), with the geographical region of Australasia.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.
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Australian pelican
The Australian pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus) is a large waterbird of the family Pelecanidae, widespread on the inland and coastal waters of Australia and New Guinea, also in Fiji, parts of Indonesia and as a vagrant in New Zealand.
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Banded stilt
The banded stilt (Cladorhynchus leucocephalus) is a nomadic wader of the stilt and avocet family, Recurvirostridae, native to Australia.
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Bedourie, Queensland
Bedourie is a small town and locality in the Shire of Diamantina, Queensland, Australia.
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Bioregion
A bioregion is an ecologically and geographically defined area that is smaller than an ecozone, but larger than an ecoregion or an ecosystem, in WWF classification scheme.
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Birdsville
Birdsville is a small town and locality in the Shire of Diamantina, Queensland, Australia.
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Bladensburg National Park
Bladensburg is a national park in Shire of Winton, Queensland, Australia.
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Boulia, Queensland
Boulia is a remote outback town and locality in the Shire of Boulia in Central West Queensland, Australia.
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Bush Heritage Australia
Bush Heritage Australia is a non-profit organisation based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, that operates throughout Australia.
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Cecil Madigan
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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Channel Country
The Channel Country is a region of outback Australia mostly in the state of Queensland but also in parts of South Australia, Northern Territory and New South Wales.
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Charles Sturt
Captain Charles Napier Sturt (28 April 1795 – 16 June 1869) was a British explorer of Australia, and part of the European exploration of Australia.
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Colson Track
The Colson Track is a remote dirt track in Australia running between the Simpson Desert in South Australia and Numery Station in the Northern Territory.
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Coongie Lakes
The Coongie Lakes is a freshwater wetland system located in the Far North region of South Australia.
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Cooper Creek
The Cooper Creek (formerly Cooper's Creek) is one of the most famous rivers in Australia because it was the site of the death of the explorers Burke and Wills in 1861.
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Cyclorana
Cyclorana is a genus of frogs in the family Hylidae (tree frogs), whose members are found in most of Australia.
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Dalhousie Springs
Dalhousie Springs 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.
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David Lindsay (explorer)
David Lindsay (20 June 1856 – 17 December 1922) was an Australian explorer and surveyor and a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, London.
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Department for Environment and Water (South Australia)
The Department for Environment and Water is a department of the Government of South Australia.
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Department of the Environment and Water Resources
The Department of the Environment and Water Resources was an Australian government department that existed between January and December 2007.
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Desert climate
The Desert climate (in the Köppen climate classification BWh and BWk, sometimes also BWn), also known as an arid climate, is a climate in which precipitation is too low to sustain any vegetation at all, or at most a very scanty shrub, and does not meet the criteria to be classified as a polar climate.
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Deserts of Australia
Named deserts of Australia cover, or 18% of the Australian mainland.
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Donohue Highway
The Donohue Highway is a mostly unpaved outback track that leads through the northern foothills of the Simpson Desert in Queensland to Tobermorey Homestead, Northern Territory near the Northern Territory/Queensland border in Australia.
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Dune
In physical geography, a dune is a hill of loose sand built by aeolian processes (wind) or the flow of water.
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Dust storm
A dust storm is a meteorological phenomenon common in arid and semi-arid regions.
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Ecoregion
An ecoregion (ecological region) is an ecologically and geographically defined area that is smaller than a bioregion, which in turn is smaller than an ecozone.
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Erg (landform)
An erg (also sand sea or dune sea, or sand sheet if it lacks dunes) is a broad, flat area of desert covered with wind-swept sand with little or no vegetative cover.
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Ethabuka Reserve
Ethabuka Reserve is a 213,300–hectare nature reserve in Central West Queensland, Australia, 157 km north-west of Bedourie, 336 km south-west of Boulia and 639 km south of Mount Isa.
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Eucalyptus coolabah
Eucalyptus coolabah, commonly known as coolibah, is a eucalypt of riparian zones and is found throughout Australia from arid inland to coastal regions.
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Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
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Eyrean grasswren
The Eyrean grasswren (Amytornis goyderi) is a small grasswren from the Passerine family Maluridae.
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Foreset bed
A foreset bed is one of the main parts of a river delta.
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Freckled duck
The freckled duck (Stictonetta naevosa) is a waterfowl species endemic to Australia.
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Glossy ibis
The glossy ibis (Plegadis falcinellus) is a wading bird in the ibis family Threskiornithidae.
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Goneaway National Park
Goneaway is a national park in Central West Queensland, Australia, 1158 km west of Brisbane.
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Government of Australia
The Government of the Commonwealth of Australia (also referred to as the Australian Government, the Commonwealth Government, or the Federal Government) is the government of the Commonwealth of Australia, a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy.
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Great Artesian Basin
The Great Artesian Basin (GAB), located in Australia, is the largest and deepest artesian basin in the world, stretching over, with measured temperatures ranging from.
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Great egret
The great egret (Ardea alba), also known as the common egret, large egret or (in the Old World) great white egret or great white heron is a large, widely distributed egret, with four subspecies found in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and southern Europe.
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Grey grasswren
The grey grasswren (Amytornis barbatus) is a passerine bird in the Australasian wren family, Maluridae.
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Haddon Corner
Haddon Corner is a heritage-listed site in Tanbar, Shire of Barcoo, Queensland, Australia.
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Innamincka Regional Reserve
Innamincka Regional Reserve is a protected area located in the north-east of South Australia which includes the town of Innamincka.
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Innamincka, South Australia
Innamincka is a small settlement in north-east South Australia, with a population of only 12.
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Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia
The Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) is a biogeographic regionalisation of Australia developed by the Australian Government's Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities.
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Iron oxide
Iron oxides are chemical compounds composed of iron and oxygen.
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Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre National Park
Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre National Park (formerly Lake Eyre National Park) is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia.
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Kowari
The kowari (Dasyuroides byrnei), also known as the brush-tailed marsupial rat, Kayer rat, Byrne's crest-tailed marsupial rat, bushy-tailed marsupial rat and kawiri, is a small carnivorous marsupial native to the dry grasslands and deserts of central Australia.
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Lake Eyre
Lake Eyre, officially known as Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre, contains the lowest natural point in Australia, at approximately below sea level (AHD), and, on the rare occasions that it fills, is the largest lake in Australia covering.
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Lake Eyre basin
The Lake Eyre basin is a drainage basin that covers just under one-sixth of all Australia.
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List of deserts by area
This is the list of the largest deserts in the world by area.
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List of ecoregions in Australia
Ecoregions in Australia are geographically distinct plant and animal communities, defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature based on geology, soils, climate, and predominant vegetation.
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Lochern National Park
Lochern is a national park in Central West Queensland, Australia, 1,047 km west of Brisbane.
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Louis-Philippe Loncke
Louis-Philippe Loncke, is a Belgian explorer, adventurer and motivational speaker.
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Men's Journal
Men's Journal is a monthly men's lifestyle magazine focused on outdoor recreation and comprising editorials on the outdoors, environmental issues, health and fitness, style and fashion, and gear.
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Munga-Thirri National Park
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.
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Musk duck
The musk duck (Biziura lobata) is a highly aquatic, stiff-tailed duck native to southern Australia.
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National Museum of Australia
The National Museum of Australia preserves and interprets Australia's social history, exploring the key issues, people and events that have shaped the nation.
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Northern Territory
The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT) is a federal Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia.
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Oodnadatta
Oodnadatta, in the Australian state of South Australia, is a small town surrounded by an area of with cattle stations in arid pastoral rangelands close to the Simpson Desert, north of the state capital of Adelaide and 112 m above sea level.
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Petroleum
Petroleum is a naturally occurring, yellow-to-black liquid found in geological formations beneath the Earth's surface.
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Poeppel Corner
Poeppel Corner (known as Poeppel's Corner in Queensland) at latitude 26° S and longitude 138° E is a corner of state boundaries in Australia, where the state of Queensland meets South Australia and the Northern Territory.
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Quartz
Quartz is a mineral composed of silicon and oxygen atoms in a continuous framework of SiO4 silicon–oxygen tetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tetrahedra, giving an overall chemical formula of SiO2.
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Queensland
Queensland (abbreviated as Qld) is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia.
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Royal Geographical Society of Australasia
On 22 June 1883, the Geographical Society of Australasia started at a meeting in Sydney.
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Sebastian Copeland
Sebastian Copeland (born 3 April 1964) is an award-winning photographer, polar explorer, author, lecturer, and environmental activist.
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Silver gull
The silver gull (Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae) is the most common gull seen in Australia.
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Simpson Desert
The Simpson Desert is a large area of dry, red sandy plain and dunes in Northern Territory, South Australia and Queensland in central Australia.
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Simpson Desert Conservation Park
Simpson Desert Conservation Park (formerly Simpson Desert National Park) is a protected area located in the Australian state of South Australia about north of the state capital of Adelaide and above north-east of the town of Oodnadatta.
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Simpson Desert Important Bird Area
The Simpson Desert Important Bird Area comprises some 22,848 km2 of land within the Simpson Desert in south-western Queensland and north-eastern South Australia.
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Simpson Desert Regional Reserve
The Simpson Desert Regional Reserve is a protected area located in the Australian state of South Australia within the gazetted locality of Simpson Desert.
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Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields
The Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields, an interim Australian bioregion, comprises, and is part of four state/territories of Australia: the Northern Territory, South Australia, New South Wales and Queensland data The bioregion has the code SSD.
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South Australia
South Australia (abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia.
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Strzelecki Creek
The Strzelecki Creek, part of the Lake Eyre basin, is an ephemeral watercourse located in the Australian state of South Australia.
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Ted Colson
Edmund Albert (Ted) Colson (3 June 1881 – 27 February 1950), bushman, pastoralist and pioneer was born in South Australia near Quorn at the southern end of the Flinders Ranges.
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Thargomindah
Thargomindah is a town and a locality in the Shire of Bulloo, Queensland, Australia.
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Triodia (grass)
Triodia is a large genus of hummock-forming bunchgrass endemic to Australia.
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Water well
A water well is an excavation or structure created in the ground by digging, driving, boring, or drilling to access groundwater in underground aquifers.
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Windorah
Windorah is one of three towns in the Barcoo and a locality in Central West Queensland, Australia.
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Witjira National Park
Witjira National Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia about north of the state capital of Adelaide.
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World Wide Fund for Nature
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1961, working in the field of the wilderness preservation, and the reduction of human impact on the environment.
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Zygochloa
Zygochloa is a genus of desert plants in the grass family known only from Australia.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson_Desert
