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	Friends of Innamincka and Strzelecki Regional Reserves
		The contrast between the lakes and surrounding red desert dune country provide a stunning scenic experience.The wetlands of the Reserve provide important habitat and refuge for vast numbers of waterbirds and other fauna.
		Strzelecki Regional Reserve is located southwest of Innamincka and was proclaimed in 1991.
		The Reserve covers an area of 11 654 square kilometres between Merty Merty Station and Lake Blanche on the Strzelecki Track, which is the only access track in the Reserve.The major feature of the Reserve is the Cobbler Desert, a vast pale dune desert.
	www.communitywebs.org /FriendsofInnaminckaStrzelecki (342 words)

	Innamincka/Cooper Creek State Heritage Area
		On the same expedition, Sturt also named the Strzelecki Desert after the eccentric Polish explorer, Paul Edmund de Strzelecki, who was the first European to climb and name Mount Kosciusko.
		This made Innamincka an important centre in the region, until shifting sand during a 1930s drought closed the Strzelecki Track, and an alternate route was developed from Birdsville to the Marree rail link (the Birdsville Track).
		The Innamincka township was deserted until 1971, when a store and hotel were erected near the ruins of the nursing home.
	www.environment.sa.gov.au /heritage/shas/sha_innamincka.html (2351 words)

	"Birdsville Track" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The deserted homestead was occupied until 1951 and was a busy camel trading post.
		A memorial beside the track remembers the efforts of Lutheran missionaries who ran the aboriginal settlemant at Killalpaninna, the ruins of which are approximately 20km.
		The 'flood' road rejoins the track just north of the normal crossing and these sandhills were the most difficult and notorious part of the track in its early days.
	www.wilmap.com.au /birdsvilletrack.html (1726 words)

	Dune Systems
		As the heat goes from the day, and the burning light of the sun disappears behind Simpson Desert dune crests, the eastern faces of the dunes in shadow are stunning, the driftwood blue of the clumps of canegrass contrasting with the reds and oranges of the desert sands.
		In the Simpson, Tirari and Strzelecki deserts, acacia bushes and trees are prevalent on the dune faces and in the swales, however they rarely appear on the crests, aside from the sandhill wattle (acacia dictyophleba).
		One plant which often outcompetes spinifex in the northern and western deserts is Desert thryptomene (thryptomene maisonneuvii) with its beautiful white and pink flowers.
	www.diamantina-tour.com.au /outback_info/land_sys/dune_sys/dune_sys.htm (906 words)

	South Australia National and Conservation Parks
		Simpson Desert Regional Reserve - Simpson Desert Conservation Park lies in the centre of the Simpson Desert, consisting of a sea of parallel red sand ridges some 300-500 km across.
		Strzelecki Regional Reserve - This reserve includes the vast pale sand dune country of the Strzelecki and Cobbler Deserts, and the mostly dry bed of the Strzelecki Creek.
		Tallaringa Conservation Park - Tallaringa Conservation Park, located 100 km due west of Coober Pedy, lies on the fringe of the Great Victoria Desert and is a vast wilderness of vegetated dunes and gibber rises.
	www.australiannationalparks.com /southaustralia (1778 words)

	Velocity Web Site - Extreme science
		The Chilean Atacama Desert is the most arid region on Earth, and in several ways the most similar to Mars.
		Evidence suggests that the interior of the Atacama is lifeless, yet where the desert meets the Pacific coastal range some micro-organisms are known to exist.
		Curating Extremes took Mike to Africa's Namib desert, the oldest desert in the world and the first settled by people; and the Chilean Atacama, the driest place on Earth.
	velocity.ansto.gov.au /velocity/ans0003/article_06.asp (626 words)

	Strzelecki Desert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The desert is bisected in a roughly north-south direction by the
		Strzelecki Creek along which the Strzelecki Track runs.
		The dunes of this region carry a mixture of tall shrublands of Sandhill Wattle
	www.colongwilderness.org.au /RedIndex/SA/Strslki.htm (350 words)

	Birdsville Track - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Birdsville Track is one of the more famous outback roads in Australia.
		The 514 km track runs from Marree, a small town in northern South Australia, north across the Strzelecki Desert and ending in Birdsville in southwestern Queensland.
		In former years the track was of a very poor quality and suitable only for four-wheel drive vehicles, but it has been upgraded to a fullscale dirt road and is now a popular tourist route.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Birdsville_Track (152 words)

	Quantifying iron oxide coatings on dune sands using spectrometric measurements: An example from the Simpson-Strzelecki ...
		Quantifying iron oxide coatings on dune sands using spectrometric measurements: An example from the Simpson-Strzelecki Desert, Australia
		Department of Geography, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK Kevin White
		Citation: Bullard, J., and K. White (2002), Quantifying iron oxide coatings on dune sands using spectrometric measurements: An example from the Simpson-Strzelecki Desert, Australia, J.
	www.agu.org /pubs/crossref/2002/2001JB000454.shtml (316 words)

	Hemispheres \| Roving Gourmet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		They sit at dusty desert crossroads, durably rugged, surrounded by a collection of rusted dwellings and hundreds of miles of emptiness.
		It’s a 514-kilometre dirt road weaving for the most part through the Strzelecki Desert before skirting the Sturt Stony Desert and the sand dunes of the Simpson Desert.
		Also at the bar there may be Australian cowboys, in from the surrounding cattle stations, and the truckies who drive the road-trains, the monstrously long trucks and trailers that cart cattle across the desert.
	www.hemispheresmagazine.com /roving/2001/outback-pubs.html (1604 words)

	Australia
		The Western Desert, Tanami, Nullarbor, Simpson and Strzelecki together cover 1.6 million square kilometres, nearly 70 per cent of the continent.
		Deeper in the desert, the 'inside Pintupi' moved to government settlements after contact with Welfare Branch patrols in the 1950s and 1960s.
		He was among the last desert people to live off the land in the traditional way.
	www.nma.gov.au /exhibitions/now_showing/extremes/australia (616 words)

	My 1997 Tour of Australia - Channel Country
		This trip concentraterd on an area known as the "Channel Country" and included three of the more famous inland tracks of the region.
		After a detour into the Simpson desert to Dalhousie springs I continued onto Alice Springs.
		From Alice Springs i headed north east along the Sandover Hwy, this track is the most lonely that I have traversed with only two cars seen in the 4 days it took me to complete the 1000 km.
	geocities.com /austadv/1997.htm (174 words)

	Sydney to Broome 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		28 August 2001: The Strzelecki Track runs from Lyndhurst to Innamincka, from the rocky northern Flinders Ranges to sand dunes of the Strzelecki Desert.
		While the Strzelecki Track runs North - South following the dune valleys and is a smooth, very fast clay road, the road to Cameron Corner crosses the dunes from West to East.is a slow, sandy, often corrogated rollercoaster.
		The middle part of the Strzelecki Track is rather monotonous, that's why I haven't got a lot of pictures of it.
	www-personal.usyd.edu.au /~gerhard/Gallery/to_wa/html/Sec28_Strzelecki_Track/38836S_1.html (158 words)

	Hopping mouse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Small at around 30 to 50 g, and light in colour, it is gregarious and feeds at night on seeds, insects, and green shoots, not needing to drink water.
		Some small Dusky Hopping Mouse (Notomys fuscus) populations retain a slender hold on existence in the Strzelecki Desert.
		They feed, mostly on seeds, at night and shelter in deep vertical burrows.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Notomys (521 words)

	Volvo's Outback Adventure PT2 February 2001 Car Review - CarPoint Australia
		Now that we were into true desert country there'd be no more unannounced rainstorms, no more Clag driving, no more nerve-wracking economy runs from one petrol stop to another.
		Today's plan was to make for Cameron Corner, and then head west to catch the Strzelecki Track which would take us south-west through the heart of the arid Strzelecki desert, and hopefully emerge on the bitumen at Lyndhurst.
		The intersection of the Old Strzelecki Track and the Corner road was a disastrous quagmire when we arrived.
	carpoint.ninemsn.com.au /portal/alias__carpointau/tabID__6485/ArticleID__3061/DesktopDefault.aspx (1695 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		August to early September is a good time for birding the inland as it is the start of the breeding season for inland species and the punishing inland heat and flies of late spring and summer are still some way off.
		The cryptic inland dotterel, a desert shorebird, will be sought on the gibber plains and we have another chance for gibber chat.
		We will also be on the lookout for dingos in the desert country and as usual, the grey falcon.
	www.philipmaher.com /strzelecki2004.html (2366 words)

	Dusky Hopping Mouse : Dusky hopping mouse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Dusky Hopping MouseScientific classificationKingdom:AnimaliaPhylum:ChordataClass:MammaliaSubclass:EutheriaOrder:RodentiaFamily:Muridae[?]Genus:NotomysSpecies:fuscusBinomial nameNotomys fuscusThe Dusky Hopping Mouse (Notomys fuscus) is an Australian native rodent specialised for the deep desert.
		The Dusky Hopping Mouse (Notomys fuscus) is an Australian native rodent specialised for the deep desert.
		Like all hopping mice it has strong front teeth, a long tail, dark eyes, big ears, well-developed haunches and very long, narrow hind feet.
	www.termsdefined.net /du/dusky-hopping-mouse.html (365 words)

	inland oz
		The outback of Australia is for most, the unknown of Australia - a legendary land steeped in history with vast deserts, immense cattle and sheep ranches, and the dreamtime of the Aborigines.
		Throughout the tour our accommodation will be as diverse as the birds and geography and range from comfortable hotels to guesthouses and the uniqueness of a couple of nights spent on a Cattle Ranch.
		While the whiteface has never been common and the grasswren's distribution has diminished, the Lyndhurst area is their stronghold and, with luck and probably hard work, we should see both species.
	www.sunbirdtours.co.uk /inlandoz.htm (2015 words)

	Birdsville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The town is located 1590 kilometres westof the state capital, Brisbane, and 720 kilometres south of the city of Mount Isa.
		The Birdsville Track extends 514 kilometres from Marree in South Australia through the Strzelecki Desert before endingat Birdsville.
		The town is nowadays famous for the legendary annual Birdsville Races, which are held in September in aid of the Royal FlyingDoctor Service.
	www.therfcc.org /birdsville-242153.html (144 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Exhibition Portrays Reality of Survival in Extremes
		Aerial view over dunes, Strzelecki Desert, South Australia, which is part of Extremes: Survival in the Great Deserts of the Southern Hemisphere.
		The exhibition depicts the extremities of heat and harsh conditions in our southern deserts, which have been home to many cultures over tens of thousands of years.
		It portrays the reality of desert landscapes with minimal or no water— places in the world where all life and especially humans are challenged in extreme conditions for their very survival.
	english.epochtimes.com /news/5-5-10/28635.html (213 words)

	Desert survival stories on Environment Day
		The Surviving the Desert forum is being held on World Environment Day to coincide with the exhibition Extremes: Survival in the Great Deserts of the Southern Hemisphere.
		The panel will explore the allure of Australian deserts and experiences ranging from Dr Smith losing his son overnight in the Strzelecki Desert to Mr Kelly completing the first crossing of the Tanami, finally connecting the routes of early explorers John McDouall Stuart and Augustus Gregory in 2002.
		Extremes: Survival in the Great Deserts of the Southern Hemisphere continues at the National Museum until August 21.
	www.nma.gov.au /media/media_releases_index/2005_06_02 (351 words)

	Untitled Document
		Few pairs on rainwater swamps between Tibooburra and the Strzelecki Creek and breeding birds in a bore drain on the Strzelecki Track.
		Moderately common from Deniliquin north to Bourke and in the Victorian and SA mallee; an isolated population of the pale form on the Strzelecki Creek.
		Scattered birds at Deniliquin, Strzelecki Creek (probable breeding), near Ouyen and in the mallee at Hattah NP plus a road kill near Thargomindah.
	www.philipmaher.com /Strztripreport00.html (2055 words)

	The SA Deserts Region @ ExplorOz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Australia's desert region is extremely dry and only very sparsely populated although not like the true deserts such as the Sahara.
		There are a few desert regions namely Strzelecki Desert, Sturt Stony Desert and Simpson Desert with the more well known tracks being the Strzelecki Track, Birdsville Track, Oodnadatta Track, Rig Road and French Line.
		The Painted Desert has to be the highlight of the South Australian Desert experience.
	www.exploroz.com /Infopages/RegionNotes/Deserts.asp (1076 words)

	Flinders Ranges and Outback South Australia - Outback Touring (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		You could start at the cliffs of the Southern Ocean and drive North through the desert to visit main attractions such as Coober Pedy opal town, take a diversion to Ayers Rock and Kings Canyon, before backtracking to Alice Springs – centre of Australia.
		Simpson Desert One of the last great motoring adventures in the world is the 500 kilometres of the Simpson Desert between Birdsville and Mt Dare.
		The Cooper Creek is in the middle of the sand and gibbers of the Strzelecki Desert, yet is the breeding ground for much of the nation's desert birdlife.
	www.flindersoutback.com /touring.htm (2099 words)

	Postcards - Previous Feature: The Strzelecki Track & Cooper Creek: Far North of South Australia
		He passed through in 1845 and named it after an eccentric Polish explorer Paul Edmund de Strzelecki (he was the first European to climb the nation's highest point which he named Mount Kosciusko).
		The track was originally a stock route from the Northern Flinders town of Lyndhurst and Innaminka which sits on the edge of the Cooper Creek.
		A Desert Parks Pass is needed to visit and there are camping grounds available.
	www.postcards.sa.com.au /features/strzelecki_track.html (708 words)

	Sturt NP
		In Sturt National Park, a network of roads and tracks is maintained by the NPWS to 2WD standard, but check with the rangers at Tibooburra before setting out.
		The park’s 3500 square kilometres are cut in two by the Grey Range: to the west are the rolling red sand dunes of the Strzelecki Desert, and to the east the stone-covered, so-called gibber plains extending for hundreds of kilometres.
		The area supports a number of red and grey kangaroos, emus and lizards.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /australia/newsouthwales/sturtnatpark.asp (201 words)

	Birdsville - TheBestLinks.com - Australia, South Australia, Simpson Desert, Queensland, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Birdsville, Australia, South Australia, Simpson Desert, Queensland, Birdsville...
		Birdsville is a small town located in Central West Queensland, Australia.
		The town is nowadays famous for the legendary annual Birdsville Races, which are held in September in aid of the Royal Flying Doctor Service.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Birdsville.html (197 words)

	CSIRO PUBLISHING - Wildlife Research
		fuscus was found throughout the Strzelecki Desert east and south of the Strzelecki Creek in South Australia and in an isolated group of dunes south-east of the Diamantina River in south-west Queensland.
		Populations were located in a variety of sand dune habitats (excepting those dominated by Triodia) throughout these areas, implying that the species is a habitat-generalist with a preference for a sandy substrate.
		However, the results suggest that the presence of consolidated dunes and perennial vegetation are important for the maintenance of stable populations.
	www.publish.csiro.au /nid/144/paper/WR97061.htm (258 words)

	Chapter 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		To the north is Sturt's Stony Desert, the Tirari Desert, the Great Victoria Desert, the Simpson Desert, and the Strzelecki Desert.
		Bordering the enormous desert regions in the south of the Australian continent is a belt of country characterised by, and named after, dwarf eucalypts called mallees, which thrive on the salty alkaline soils.
		To our north and south were the sand ridges of Victoria's Big Desert, but this centre strip through which we rode is still productive sheep and grain country.
	werple.net.au /~cusacks4/aigor/GUR/Chapter_1.htm (1984 words)

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