Images Dated 1st July 2021

Eyre Creek

Eyre Creek, draining water from the northern end of the Great Dividing Range into Lake Machattie, an ancient sump once lying at the base of an inland sea. Its course is rigidly controlled by prevailing winds as it is tightly constrained between long parallel dunes of the north-eastern Simpson Desert. From the air many overflow channels can be seen, hence the term Channel Country. Simpson Desert, Queensland, Australia

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Remains of lava tubes (foreground) snaking through the surrounding woodlands

Remains of lava tubes (foreground) snaking through the surrounding woodlands. Undara Volcanic National Park contains the remains of one of the earths longest flows of lava from a single volcano: an estimated 1000 cubic metres a second flowing over 90 km to the north and 160 km to the north-west. Undara Volcanic National Park, near Mount Surprise, northeastern Queensland, Australia

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The "Prison Tree", Derby, Western Australia

Boab tree (Adansonia gregorii) the Prison Tree'. In the latter half of the 19th century many Boab trees were used as overnight cells for Aboriginal prisoners being escorted to the nearest town for trial.
There are two species of Adansonia - one in tropical Africa, and this one Adansonia gregorii which is confined to coastal north west Western Australia and some areas of the Northern Territory. The particular tree in Derby, Western Australia is at least 1000 years old and has a girth of 14 metres., Derby, Western Australia

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