Ngaire Hart, Facets of the Simpson Desert (LANDSCAPE 2023)

Leaving Birdsville and flying to Innamincka over the Simpson Desert the dry, red sandy plains and saw what looked like a map of Australia. Passed over "Big Red," sand dune standing 35m tall, part of 1,140 parallel sand dunes. In 2022 this area flooded and in part, months later parts of the desert remain green, as reflected in the third photo.

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