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Little Sandy Desert: Western Australia 111,500 km 2: 43,100 sq mi 6 1.5% Strzelecki Desert: New South Wales Queensland South Australia 80,250 km 2: 30,980 sq mi 7 1.0% Sturt Stony Desert: Queensland South Australia 29,750 km 2: 11,490 sq mi 8 0.3% Tirari Desert: South Australia 15,250 km 2: 5,890 sq mi 9 0.2% Pedirka Desert: South Australia ...
Deserts in Australia. The satellite image is from public domain NASA World Wind, the details are done in Corel Painter IX. Category: Australia Category: Deserts
Like many of Australia's deserts, precipitation is high by desert standards, but with the driest regions recording total rainfall a little below 250 mm (9.8 in). The heat of Australia’s ground surface, in turn, creates a massive evaporation cycle, which partially explains the higher-than-normal desert rainfall.
Deserts of South Australia (2 C, 11 P) Deserts of the Northern Territory (1 C, 4 P) Deserts of Victoria (state) (3 P) Deserts of Western Australia (3 C, 7 P)
NASA - Visible Earth, the Great Victoria Desert is in the center of the image, north of the Nullarbor Plain. The Great Victoria is the largest desert in Australia, [2] and consists of many small sandhills, grassland plains, areas with a closely packed surface of pebbles (called desert pavement or gibber plains), and salt lakes.
The Gibson Desert is a large desert in Western Australia, largely in an almost pristine state. It is about 155,000 square kilometres (60,000 sq mi) in size, making it the fifth largest desert in Australia, after the Great Victoria, Great Sandy, Tanami and Simpson deserts. The Gibson Desert is both an interim Australian bioregion and desert ...
The Simpson Desert is a large area of dry, red sandy plain and dunes in the Northern Territory, South Australia and Queensland in central Australia. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is the fourth-largest Australian desert , with an area of 176,500 km 2 (68,100 sq mi).
Climate map of Australia. By far the largest part of Australia is arid or semi-arid. A total of 18% of Australia's mainland consists of named deserts, [20] while additional areas are considered to have a desert climate based on low rainfall and high temperature. Only the south-east and south-west corners have a temperate climate and moderately ...