Channel Country

Channel Country
Australia
The interim Australian bioregions,
with Channel Country in red
Area304,094.37 km2 (117,411.5 sq mi)
Localities around Channel Country:
Tanami Mitchell Grass Downs Mitchell Grass Downs
Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields Channel Country Mulga Lands
Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields Broken Hill Complex Mulga Lands
Overhead Channel Country / Cooper Creek
Bulloo River crossing, 1955

The Channel Country is a region of outback Australia mostly in the state of Queensland but also in parts of South Australia, Northern Territory and New South Wales.[1][2] The name comes from the numerous intertwined rivulets that cross the region, which cover 150,000 km².[3] The Channel Country is over the Cooper and Eromanga geological basins and the Lake Eyre Basin drainage basin. Further to the east is the less arid Maranoa district.

  1. ^ Channel Country Bioregion New South Wales Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference anra was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Reardon, Mitch (1995). The Australian Geographic Book of Corner Country. Terrey Hills, New South Wales: Australian Geographic. p. 93. ISBN 1-86276-012-8.