Tirari Desert
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| Geographic location : | 138 ° ö. L. 26 ° s. B. |
| Surface: | 15,250 km² |
| Annual rainfall: | 125 mm |
| Average daily maximum temperature: |
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The Tirari Desert covers an area of 15,250 square kilometers in northeast South Australia . It is located east of the northern part of Lake Eyre in Lake Eyre National Park .
history
In 1866 the expedition of Peter Egerton Warburton reached the Tirari Desert coming from the west. Then Warburton reached the Warburton River , which he believed to be Cooper Creek . When another expedition of James William Lewis traveled through this desert in 1874 , they reached what is now the Queensland border and on the march back they came to the Kopperamanna mission station and followed Cooper Creek and discovered the east shore of Lake Eyre.
In the 1860s, two mission stations were established in the desert area. At Cooper Creek, where it crosses on the Birdsville Track , the Moravian Congregation founded a station on Lake Kopperamanna in 1866, which was closed again in 1869 because the conversion of the Aborigines was unsuccessful. The Bethesda , an Evangelical Methodist Diakoniewerk, founded on Lake Killalpaninna about the same time a mission that developed in the 1880s to a little settlement with church. The mission ran sheep and was closed in 1917 because of the rabbit plague. The place can still be recognized by the small cemetery and the remains of wooden posts as foundations.
location
The Tirari Desert is surrounded by other deserts: The Simpson Desert is in the north and the Strzelecki Desert in the east, while Sturt's Stony Desert joins the Birdsville Track in the northeast . Cooper Creek cuts through the middle of the Tirari Desert. The desert can be reached via a dirt road from Marree to Birdsville , on which only the Mungerannie Roadhaus can be used as a service station.
The Tirari Desert is characterized by salt lakes and large sand dunes that are moved north-south by the wind. Endemic grasses such as Zygochloa paradoxa and Acacia ligulata settle on the sand dunes . The dunes can be partially covered with grass and when it rains, flowers bloom there. The flower bloom also unfolds on rain-flooded floors after they have dried off. In this desert log , cotton bush and the so-called bluebush grow . Eucalyptus trees are rooted near Cooper Creek . Not far from Lake Ngapakaldi and Lake Palankarinna is an area of 3.5 square kilometers where fossils are excavated.
Dieri
The Aboriginal tribe of the Dieri live in the Tirari Desert . You have had ownership of a desert area of 1,600 square kilometers since 1997. In total, this tribe has a right of ownership over 87,733 square kilometers of land, which is enshrined in the Dieri Native Title Claim . The area owned by the Dieri extends from the east of Lake Eyre to the north to Muloorina to the Warburton River and to the east of Killalapaninna.
economy
There are huge farms in the desert area, such as the Dulkaninna Station , which raises cattle with around 2000 cattle, breeds horses and raises the Australian Kelpie , an Australian breed of dog. The Etadunna station in the north is a farm with 2500 cattle.
The economy and settlement of this area left numerous historical testimonies as ruins, such as the Bucaltaninna Homestead, the Woolshed, Canny Trig Point (called Milner's Pile) and the Killalpaninna Mission. This also applies to the Mulka Station , near the ruins of Apatoongannie, Old Mulka and Ooroowillannie, as well as the Mulka Store, which is a historic and protected building.
Web links
- Information about the Tirari Desert (English)
- Travel report (German)
- Plants and animals of the desert ( Memento from February 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (English; PDF file; 2.67 MB)
Individual evidence
- ^ Geosciences Australia - Deserts
- ↑ Information on the fossil site (English) ( Memento of the original from August 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Dieri Nativ Title Claim (English) ( Memento from August 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 28 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ S , 138 ° 7 ′ 0 ″ E