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Channel Country

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Channel Country
n
(Placename) the. an area of E central Australia, in SW Queensland: crossed by intermittent rivers and subject to both flooding and long periods of drought


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Numbers from Windorah's visitor information centre show tourism in the Channel Country town is up by more than 20 per cent on previous years.
In the far west the Simpson Desert, with its dunes and inhospitable gibber plains gives way to the Channel Country, an area laced with an intricate web of often dry streams that after heavy rain may spill to cover the land like a vast brown sea.
Part of the Lake Eyre Basin, it is a vast and awe-inspiring landscape with desert dunes, Mitchell grass plains, worn and ancient mountain ranges, wetlands and channel country.
 
 
 
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