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The 2009 Lake Eyre flood peaked at deep in late May which is a quarter of its maximum recorded depth of.

of water crossed the Queensland – South Australian border with most of it coming from massive floods in the Georgina River.

However the greater proportion soaked into the desert or evaporated en route to the lake leaving less than 4 km < sup > 3 </ sup > ( 0. 24 cu mi ) in the lake which covered an area of or 12 % of the lake.

As the flood did not start filling the lake's deepest point ( Belt Bay ) until late March little bird life appeared preferring instead to nest in the upper reaches of the Lake Eyre Basin, north of Birdsville, where large lakes appeared in January as a result of monsoonal rain.