Munga-Thirri National Park

Mate it's only the Queensland section that's named Munga Thirri. At Poeppel Corner it meets South Australia's Simpson Desert Conservation Park ( & Witjira National Park at the western edges of the desert) and the Northern Territory's Simpson Desert Regional Reserve. TheSimpson Desert covers more than 17 million hectares of Central Australia so it's only a realtively small area in QLD.

Cheers Mick.

dean, if you reckon Munga Thirri is a mouthful, try some of the Cape York NP's!

Its very recent - thanks for bringing it up.LINK

The re-naming of national parks is an interesting topic.

Can I suggest you think like the Maralinga Tjurutja people who occupy the eastern half of the "Great Victoria Desert". Now how stupid is that name? Queen Victoria never stepped in our country, let alone the desert named after her - she had nothing to do with the place.

In many ways, its the same with the Simpson desert - Allen Simpson was funded the odd "expedition" but does that justify naming a desert after him?

I don't care what names they give to deserts, but its good if the names have some significance.

Cheers
Phil