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The Lasseter Highway runs from Erldunda on the Stuart Highway to Uluru. The road passes through an arid region (annual rainfall at nearby Curtin Springs is 232 millimetres) with high evaporation. Vegetation is grass and low scrub with scattered stands of taller desert oak growing in sand. The Lasseter Highway passes through dune fields for much of the way to Uluru; the low and vegetated dunes are not always readily seen by travellers. Enroute to Uluru the road passes Mt Connor which resembles Uluru and is often mistaken for that more famous feature. While passing Mt Connor the highway also passes dry salt lakes which are part of a lake complex extended from Lake Amadeus along the broad depression between the MacDonnell Range to the north and Musgrave Range to the south.
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