Simpson Desert Conservation Park was created in 1967.
Australia, in the south-eastern Northern Territory, western Queensland, and far north-eastern South Australia. The South Australian section of the desert is divided into the Simpson Desert Conservation Park, Simpson Desert Regional Reserve and Witjira National Park. The Simpson Desert is approx 145,000 square kilometres (56,000 square miles) in area.
The Simpson Desert in Australia was discovered by Captain Charles Sturt in 1844. Captain Charles Sturt led an expedition into the desert interior, together with Scottish explorer John MacDougall Stuart. Sturt hoped to find the inland sea which had eluded him since he first followed the Murray River in the late 1820s. All the explorers found was Sturt's Stony Desert and the Simpson Desert.
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