Tallest Inland Sand Dune?

Hi Jinki and Harry

Hope you are travelling well. You may recall that I met you in Peterborough SA.

Not sure about the one at Yeagarup but Big Red is 90 metres ASL(above sea level) and is only around 36 metres in height above the dune corridor.

I have travelled over some of those dunes near Pemberton but cannot remember which ones. It took heaps of grunt to get back off the beach over one dune and methinks that one could be higher than Big Red.

Cheers

Hello - This has sort of been discussed before - see post 19207.

The is no actual dune called Yeagarup (AFAIK). The Yeagarup DUNES represent an area of exposed sand ~10km long x 2km wide that parallels the coast about 4kms inland. The dunes making up this massive, slowly moving sand drift consist of a mosaic of many dunes that are constantly changing. I doubt if there is any one dune in the complex that would be ~40m high (above surrrounding ground) though some are quite steep. The actual area is about 80 to 100m above sea level.

The biggest "dune" in the area is actually encountered when driving up The Warren Beach Track (south of Warren River mouth, Yeagerup is north) and is called Callcup Hill (part of Callcup Dunes). As discussed in previous threads on this subject, ascending Callcup Hill takes you from ~0m Above Sea Level (ASL) just off the beach to some where around 200m over a distance of about 2km - climbing all the way. Callcup Hill itself is shown as being 236m (AHD ~ ASL).

There may be other similar dunes around Australia, don't really know. Suspect Big Red doesn't make the top 10 and really doesn't sound that big at all. Most of the big dunes would be coastal (such as Callcup) so don't know if they qualify for being "inland" as you initial post requested.

Cheers
Greg

Not inland but .....

Moreton Island is home to spectacular coastal scenery and the highest sand dune in the world. Located just 90 minutes from downtown Brisbane, Moreton Island is a sand mass measuring a little under 20 square kilometres in area.