Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A desert region of central Australia.
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- noun a desert region of central Australia
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Examples
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"I guess we'll be affected by the fact that [the] Simpson Desert, which is normally crossed from around about now - it's open for travel from Birdsville east-west, which carries traffic up to Ayers Rock or through Oodnadatta - that will be cut because of the floods ... west of Birdsville.
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"I guess we'll be affected by the fact that [the] Simpson Desert, which is normally crossed from around about now - it's open for travel from Birdsville east-west, which carries traffic up to Ayers Rock or through Oodnadatta - that will be cut because of the floods ... west of Birdsville.
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"I guess we'll be affected by the fact that [the] Simpson Desert, which is normally crossed from around about now - it's open for travel from Birdsville east-west, which carries traffic up to Ayers Rock or through Oodnadatta - that will be cut because of the floods ... west of Birdsville.
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"I guess we'll be affected by the fact that [the] Simpson Desert, which is normally crossed from around about now - it's open for travel from Birdsville east-west, which carries traffic up to Ayers Rock or through Oodnadatta - that will be cut because of the floods ... west of Birdsville.
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Next door, Bluey and Petra sip Victoria Bitters, talking with Jim the owner/bartender, his wife, and the local bush-pilot about the Simpsons, who visited Australia in last night's episode, although nowhere near the Simpson Desert which looms outside.
Kangaroo Dreaming Steve Himmer 2011
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Near Glen Helen, where the Finke River goes through a gap in the Macdonnell Ranges and heads south towards the Simpson Desert and Lake Eyre, we turned northward upstream and wound along on the rocks and sand of its upper bed, through big river red gums.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Some day, said Latz, he would like to raft right down the Finke River in flood, from its beginnings south of the Tanami Desert, all the way to the Simpson Desert, and on down the Macumba River into the vastness of Lake Eyre.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Katie has now started cutting lino again, getting ready for the show she is having in London in September with Sarah and the other artists who came on her trip to the Simpson Desert and Cooper's Creek last year.
Journal For 5 April 2001 Alex Allan 2009
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Near Glen Helen, where the Finke River goes through a gap in the Macdonnell Ranges and heads south towards the Simpson Desert and Lake Eyre, we turned northward upstream and wound along on the rocks and sand of its upper bed, through big river red gums.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Some day, said Latz, he would like to raft right down the Finke River in flood, from its beginnings south of the Tanami Desert, all the way to the Simpson Desert, and on down the Macumba River into the vastness of Lake Eyre.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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