It covers an area of around 180 square kilometres (69sqmi) and is 210 kilometres (130mi) east of the Great Northern Highway.
Dragon Tree Soak is a swamp believed to be a relic of the riverine vegetation found along the Mandora Palaeoriver during its partial rejuvenation by the wetter climates of the early to mid Holocene Epoch.[3]
It is used by birds from the surrounding hummock grasslands but also has species generally associated with scrub or tree-lined watercourses elsewhere. Species not recorded elsewhere in the region but present in the Typha beds were the Clamorous Reed-Warbler and the Australian crake.[4]
Dragon Tree Soak is a swamp with bullrush Typha domingensis and dragon tree Sesbania formosa. It includes a freshwater spring, a permanent freshwater marsh and peatland. It has an area of 5 ha (main water area: 1 ha). It forms an oasis supporting plants and animals that are absent or scarce elsewhere in the desert.[5]
Wild camel damage has been reported as extensive, and programmes to reduce their effect on the reserve have been conducted.[6]
Assessability
It is a reserve that contains old dry lake beds, and is well away from named tracks. It is accessible by driving east following the track at 19°41'54.6"S 121°14'19.9"E, near Eighty Mile Beach, until 20°03'52.9"S 123°18'37.0"E, then heading north by 37km. Flying by helicopter from Broome or Port Hedland is also possible.
↑ Veth, Peter (1 January 1995), "Aridity and settlement in northwest Australia.(Special Issue)(Transitions: Pleistocene to Holocene in Australia & Papua New Guinea)", Antiquity, Antiquity Publications, Ltd, 69 (265): 733, doi:10.1017/S0003598X00082302, ISSN0003-598X
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