Tirari Desert

The Tirariwüste covers an area of ​​15,250 square kilometers in the north- east of South Australia. It is located east of the northern part of lake of Lake Eyre Lake Eyre National Park.

History

1866 reached the expedition of Peter Egerton Warburton the Tirariwüste coming from the west. Then reached the Warburton Warburton River, which he believed that it was the Cooper Creek. When in 1874 another expedition of James William Lewis traveled through the desert, they reached the present border of Queensland and on the way back they came to Kopperamanna mission station and followed the Cooper Creek and discovered the eastern shore of Lake Eyre.

In the 1860s, two mission stations were founded in the desert area. At Cooper Creek, where in the Birdsville Track crosses him, founded the Moravian Church at Lake Kopperamanna 1866 a station that has been closed in 1869 and again because the conversion of the Aborigine was unsuccessful. The Bethesda, an Evangelical Methodist Diakoniewerk, founded on Lake Killalpaninna about the same time a mission that developed around 1880 to a little settlement with church. The mission operational sheep and in 1917 closed for the rabbit plague. The place is still recognizable by the small cemetery and remains of wooden posts as foundations.

Location

The Tirariwüste is surrounded by other deserts: The Simpson Desert is located in the north and the Strzelecki Desert in the East, while Sturt Stony Desert in the north-east connects to the Birdsville Track. The Cooper Creek cuts through the center Tirariwüste. Reachable the desert is a track from Marree to Birdsville, on which only the Mungerannie - Road house can be used as a service station.

The Tirariwüste is characterized by salt lakes, and by large sand dunes that moves the wind north- south. On the sand dunes move endemic grasses such Zygochloa paradoxa and Acacia ligulata. The dunes can be partially covered with grass and when rain falls, blooming flowers there. The flowers blossom unfolds on flooded by rain soils after drying. In this wilderness Report, cotton bush and the so-called Blue Bush grow. Near the Cooper Creek rooted eucalyptus trees. Close to the Lake and the Lake Ngapakaldi Palankarinna is an area of ​​3.5 square kilometers, are dug on the fossils.

Dieri

In the field of Tirariwüste the Aboriginal tribe of Dieri lives. They have since 1997, a property right to a desert area of 1600 square kilometers. Overall, this strain has on 87 733 square kilometers of land ownership a right that is enshrined in Dieri Native Title Claim. The area, which have the Dieri, extends from east of Lake Eyre on the north to Muloorina to the Warburton River and to the east of Killalapaninna out.

Economy

There in the desert huge farms such as the Dulkaninna station that cattle with about 2,000 cattle, horse breeding and rearing of the Australian Kelpie, an Australian breed of dog runs. The Etadunna station to the north is a farm with 2500 cattle.

The economy and population of this area has left numerous historical documents as ruins, 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 which the ruins of Apatoongannie, Old Mulka and Ooroowillannie lie, and the Mulka Store, which is considered historic and protected building.