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The deserts of Australia or the Australian deserts cover about 1,371,000 km 2 (529,000 sq mi), or 18% of the Australian mainland, but about 35% of the Australian continent receives so little rain, it is practically desert. [1]
Australia's tropical/subtropical location and cold waters off the western coast make most of western Australia a hot desert, with aridity a marked feature of the greater part of the continent. These cold waters produce little moisture needed on the mainland.
It is the second largest desert in Australia after the Great Victoria Desert and encompasses an area of 284,993 square kilometres (110,036 sq mi). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The Gibson Desert lies to the south and the Tanami Desert lies to the east of the Great Sandy 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). The Wangkangurru Yarluyandi people know this area as Munga-Thirri. [3]
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 ...
This is a list of the largest deserts in the world by area. It includes all deserts above 50,000 km 2 (19,300 sq mi). Some of Earth 's biggest non-polar deserts
Strzelecki Desert – a south-central Australian desert; Tanami Desert – a northern Australian desert; South America. Sechura Desert in Peru.
This area contains the remote city of Alice Springs while the grasslands are home to a number of Indigenous Australian communities or are used for cattle grazing. This ecoregion contains four Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia bioregions – Burt Plain , Central Ranges , Finke , and MacDonnell Ranges .