Articles of category "Witjira National Park (Outback)"

Witjira NP is a huge desert location within the Australian Outback Region. This park is 120 kilometres north of Oodnadatta and consists of gibber plains, salt pans, sand dunes, flat-topped hills, numerous mound springs and breakaway country. The plant life in Witjira NP includes red mulga and gidgee trees, which are situation around the dry riverbeds. Melaleucas and palms are also located nearby, surrounding the springs.

Archaeologists, biologists, and geologists coming to Witjira have found this area of the national park to be most interesting. History states that even thousands of years before the arrival of the Europeans, the Dolhousie Springs was the main source of water, shelter, food, and medicine for the Aborigines of the desert. One of the main reasons for establishing the Witjira National Park was for the purpose of protecting and rehabilitating the 70 plus thermal springs located in the Dolhousie area, or complex.