Lake Eyre is found in South Australia in the Lake Eyre National Park.

It is normally a dry salt lake and when you look at it often shimmers in the heat. It sometimes fills with water but it has only been full three times in the past 150 years.

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. The plants that grow there are canegrass, nitre-bush, samphire and needlebush.

The flowers produce nectar and seeds that attract 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, one being the successful bid by Sir Donald Campbell in July 1964.