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1. The Simpson Desert lies between Lake Eyre in the  , the Macdonnel Ranges in the north, the Mulligan and the Diamantina Rivers in the  , and the Macumba and Finke Rivers in the west. The first European entered the Simpson Desert in 1845. But the   remained a mystery until Madigan made an aerial survey in 1929. He named the desert   Simpson, President of the South Australian Branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australia.
In 1936, Colson and an Australian Aborigine took camels   the desert. They travelled along the border of South Australia and the Northern Territory. Three years later Madigan led a scientific   across the sand dunes on a more northerly route. Colson and Madigan both travelled   across the Simpson Desert.