Lake Eyre

Tea-towel: Channel Country. Although largely confined within Queensland’s borders the unique inland river system which occasionally innundates the Channel Country extends from Camooweal to Leigh Creek in South Australia before finally disgorging in Lake Eyre. The famous journey of the explorers, Burke and Wills, terminated in 1861 on the north bank of Coopers Creek, the site of the ‘Dig tree’ on Nappa Merrie Station. Collection of Glenn Cooke