Talk:Simpson Desert

message: * Date of naming seems wrong.  Was it really crossed by colson before it was named?  perhaps 1839?
how has the desert developed and why
* Please explain? I added info to it, that i was tought in school over 13 years ago. I also added some places that people may find interesting if useing wikipedia for holiday info. --Amckern 11:25, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: earlier unsigned comments

message: Is the figure of 600,000 square kilometres right? Encarta lists it as being only 100,000  and here its listed as 56,000 square miles -- Astrokey44|talk 04:56, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  size 

message: Could use this one, nice historical one: http://images.slsa.sa.gov.au/mpcimg/09140/B9113_22.htm Colson's expedition. The copyrightcruft at the bottom should be cropped, though (since it's not true). pfctdayelise (translate?) 14:45, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: nice! ive added it to commons and put it here -- Astrokey44|talk 15:00, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image 

message: I saw a photo of the Simpson Desert with vivid red sand; it was striking. It would be great to find a free image showing this red sand. —Keenan Pepper 04:23, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Red sand 

message: I think the statement that the trans-australian line crosses the simpsons desert is wrong.   The trans-australian line runs from
Port Augusta to Kalgoorlie and is not near the Simpson.    The line from Port Augusta to Alice Spring does run past the western edge of the Simpson Desert but it is not the trans-australia line.
58.107.18.14 12:20, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Just corrected this.  I don't think the current Adelaide-Darwin line runs along its edge either, but the earlier line certainly did.  ☸ Moilleadóir ☎ 04:37, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trans-Australian Line 

message: I've seen 1932 (Blainey, who was an Australian historian) and 1929 (National Geographic), and now 1939. Can we get some kind of source for this? Phoenix Song (talk) 13:31, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of Naming 

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message: Why is that claimed? Guiness is not exactly a good source for this, as the biggest sand desert is without a shred of a doubt Rub' al Khali in Saudi Arabia, which is much larger - and also Taklamakan Desert is much larger, and is an almost continuous field of huge dunes. Both have articles in Wikipedia which also has the area and in both cases much larger than the Simpson Desert.109.56.156.8 (talk) 14:01, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Largest sand dune desert?