Lake Eyre

Lake Eyre, known by its Arabana name Kati Thanda, is Australia's largest lake by area at 9,500 square kilometres and at 15 metres below sea level the continent's lowest point. For most years the lake bed is a vast flat of salt crystals and clay, photographed most effectively from the air for its abstract patterns of white and terracotta. Approximately every three to eight years, heavy rainfall in the Channel Country of Queensland sends floodwaters down Cooper Creek and the Diamantina River to partly or fully fill the lake, transforming it into a shallow inland sea that attracts an estimated 200,000 waterbirds.