William Creek, in the Outback region of the Australian state of South Australia, is an isolated township with a population of fewer than 20.

William Creek is a convenient half-way stop along the track, with accommodation and meals at the hotel and a well-maintained if somewhat dusty campground.

In the Memorial Park it is possible to see many diverse items, including a commemorative inscription to a young Austrian woman, who died in 1998 trying to walk back to William Creek from a four-wheel drive vehicle bogged in the sand beside Lake Eyre.

[6] The first stage of the Black Arrow rocket, Britain's only successful independent space launch, was recovered from the surrounding Anna Creek cattle station and placed in the memorial park for nearly 50 years but has been taken to the UK by technology firm Skyrora.

[12] In 1911, Gilbert Reed described a whistle-stop on a train journey to Oodnadatta; he ate at Paige's boarding house, where the meal was goat, dressed up as mutton.

[citation needed] Early tourists to the area were mesmerised by the vast expanses, the heat, the mound springs and the distances.

Trevor Wright and the pilots from Wrightsair[20] take up to five passengers for a 60-minute flight out of William Creek, passing over the spectacular Painted Hills to the west, then along the southern edge of the lake, pointing out the features beneath and explaining the topography.