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Australia's Lake Eyre basin never reaches the sea
Rivers in the basin end in a salt lake that is dry for long stretches of years Kati Thanda, also called Lake Eyre, sits about 15 metres below sea level and fills only after heavy rain far to the north. When full it becomes the largest lake in Australia, covering around 9,500 square kilometres. Cooper Creek and other channels cross the Channel Country before soaking away or evaporating. It sits in Mondo's world geography collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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Australia's Lake Eyre basin never reaches the sea: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- Rivers in the basin end in a salt lake that is dry for long stretches of years. The figure is taken from Geoscience Australia, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
- Is this really a world geography fact?
- Yes. It sits on the World Geography shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
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