The Simpson, Australia’s fourth-largest desert covering approximately 176,500 square kilometres, is a gigantic sandpit of 1100 north-north-west parallel-trending dunes. It’s a remote and arid region but with a network of tracks (or shot-lines) constructed in the search for oil and gas and it’s also a bucket-list item for those wanting a true 4WD experience.
The most popular, and also the most challenging, way to cross the Simpson is along the French and QAA lines, taking in Poeppel Corner, where South Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland meet — a journey that can take up to a week to cover, at its shortest only 500km. But before you put
