Lake Eyre is in South Australia and covers an area of 1.34 million hectares.

When Lake Eyre fills with water it is a breeding ground for lots of water birds such as pelicans, black cormorants, silver gulls, avocets, banded stilts, whiskered terns and gull-billed terns.

There is a Lake Eyre dragon which is a lizard. There aren’t many plants that grow at Lake Eyre. Cane grass, mulga and acacias grow on the sand dunes. Nitre bush, sapphire needle bush and native willow are also found in the Lake Eyre area.

After heavy local rain flowers grow and produce nectar and seeds that attracts many insects and birds.

The smooth, flat surface of the lake and its enormous size have made it an ideal site for a number of world land speed record attempts!