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Any info on Strzelecki Desert?

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I am searching for google but all the results have very little info and I need this by tomorrow for a project. Help??

Need things like climate, animals that lives there, etc, etc.

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  1. The Strzelecki desert is an extensive dunefield stretching from just within the New South Wales border to ites north-eastern boundary at Cooper Creek. Its southern edge is marked by a chain of interconnected salt lakes terminating in Lake Frome. The desert is bisected in a roughly north-south direction by the Strzelecki Creek along which the Strzelecki Track runs. Within the dunefields are numerous small claypans.

    Within the Strezelecki desert are three wilderness areas centered on Lake Hope, Lake Callabonna and Lake Frome.

    The dunes of this region carry a mixture of tall shrublands of Sandhill Wattle , needlebush and Whitewood

    Hummock grasslands of Sandhills and hard spinifex

    are also present. The short-lived tufted kerosene grasses

    are characteristic understorey species, along with herbs and undershrubs. The clay pans carry a wide range of vegetation

    communities which vary according to soil type, salinity and frequency of flooding.

    Lake Frome is a playa salt lake occupying a tectonic depression. Gypsum dunes occur along the eastern lake margins which are vegetated by tall open shrubland of Sanhill Wattle , mulga and needlebush with an understorey of ephemeral herbs, saltbush and bluebush. Into the north-eastern section of the desert extends a finger of woodland vegetation from Cooper Creek to Lake Hope. This is a low open woodland in  the association of Coolibah  and Lignum


  2. The Strzelecki desert is an extensive dunefield stretching from just within the

    New South Wales border to its north-eastern boundary at Cooper Creek. Its

    southern edge is marked by a chain of interconnected salt lakes terminating in

    Lake Frome. The desert is bisected in a roughly north-south direction by the

    Strzelecki Creek along which the Strzelecki Track runs. Within the dunefields are numerous small claypans.

    Within the Strezelecki desert are three wilderness areas centered on Lake Hope,

    Lake Callabonna and Lake Frome.

    The dunes of this region carry a mixture of tall shrublands of Sandhill Wattle

    (Acacia ligulata), needlebush (Hakea spp.) and Whitewood (Atalaya hemiglauca).

    Hummock grasslands of Sandhill Canegrass (Zygochloa paradoxa) and hard spinifex

    (Triodia basedowii) are also present. The short-lived tufted kerosene grasses

    (Aristida contorta and A. browniana) are characteristic understorey species,

    along with herbs and undershrubs. The clay pans carry a wide range of vegetation

    communities which vary according to soil type, salinity and frequency of

    flooding.

    Lake Frome is a playa salt lake occupying a tectonic depression. Gypsum dunes

    occur along the eastern lake margins which are vegetated by tall open shrubland

    of Sanhill Wattle (Acacia ligulata), mulga (Acacia aneura) and needlebush (Hakea

    spp.) with an understorey of ephemeral herbs, saltbush and bluebush.

    Into the north-eastern section of the desert extends a finger of woodland

    vegetation from Cooper Creek to Lake Hope. This is a low open woodland

    association of Coolibah (Eucalyptus microtheca) and Lignum (Muehlenbeckia

    cunninghamii).

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