About Gibson Desert
About Gibson Desert
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The 'Gibson Desert' covers about 155,000 square kilometres (60,000 square miles), lying between Lake Disappointment and Lake Macdonald along the Tropic of Capricorn, in Western Australia. The area contains sandhills separated by dry grassland, along with isolated hills and low ranges, and forms part of the plateau of central Western Australia.
The desert was named after Alfred Gibson. Gibson perished while attempting to cross it in 1874, while on an expedition with Ernest Giles. Giles only narrowly avoided a similar fate.
The only human inhabitants of the area are Indigenous Australians. Due to a severe drought in 1984, which had dried up all of the springs and depleted the bush foods, a group of the Pintupi people who were living a traditional semi-nomadic desert-dwelling life walked out of the remote wilderness of the Gibson Desert in Western Australia and made contact for the first time with European-Australian society. They are believed to be the last uncontacted tribe in Australia.
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