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#KatiThanda #LakeEyre #pelican

Some people just hate change.

When's the last time you heard Uluru called its former name outside of a Klan rally?

#KatiThanda

At Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre, an 'inland tsunami' is making a sea Australia’s biggest lake is believed to have reached capacity on only three occasions in the past 160 years, but the mass of floodwater now flowing into Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre is raising more than rive...

Everything you need to know about #KatiThanda aka #LakeEyre, in #SouthAustralia

Australia's biggest inland mass of water, on extremely rare occasions.

1974 was the last time it was full, covering an area of over 9000 sq kilometres.

It is a very unique part of Australia.

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Lake Eyre begins Record Fill as Record Floodwaters move in (bit of an ad for a tourist provider, but good pics) Kati Thanda #KatiThanda

Flood waters pour into Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre in rare spectacle ‘supercharged by climate change’ Sacred site of the Arabana people could get its most significant top-up in a generation as floods spread across the outback

Down under inundation #KatiThanda #LakeEyre #Australia #climatechange www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

A large glass jar with a white label and filled with yellowish ethanol containing 1,000 preserved isopods

Close-up of the ethanol-preserved isopods, which are grey-pinkish in colour and curled up

1/2 Ever wondered what 1,000 slaters in a jar looks like?
These tiny isopods were once abundant near Marree, south of Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre in South Australia.
#southaustralianmuseum #conservation #katithanda #lakeeyre