MMA's F-27's did operate into EUCLA for a time, (CHTR) servicing a rig in the near vicinity....would have been only hard sand at the time...probably still is.
And, not too long thereafter, one ran off the 'hard stuff' whilst turning at... Leinster/or Leonora was it'..(?) and got 'stuck' for a while....
VERY early '80's or thereabouts....