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1. The Simpson Desert lies between Lake Eyre in the south, the Macdonnel Ranges in the  , the Mulligan and the Diamantina Rivers in the east, and the Macumba and Finke Rivers in the west. The first European   the Simpson Desert in 1845. But the desert remained a mystery until Madigan made an aerial survey in  . He named the desert after Simpson, President of the South Australian Branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australia.
In 1936, Colson and an Australian Aborigine took   across the desert. They travelled along the border of South Australia and the Northern Territory. Three years   Madigan led a scientific expedition across the sand dunes on a more northerly  . Colson and Madigan both travelled   across the Simpson Desert.