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Chambers Pillar is a spectacular solitary column towering 50 metres above the Simpson Desert plain, 160km from Alice Springs. Explore the reserve on foot, and don’t forget your camera.

Chambers Pillar was formed from sandstone deposited and worn down over 350 million years. It was an important landmark guiding the region’s earliest pioneers on their way from Adelaide to Alice Springs. John MacDouall Stuart first recorded the pillar in 1860 and named it after James Chambers, one of his South Australian sponsors.