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South Australia 176,500 km 2: 68,100 sq mi 4 2.3% Gibson Desert: Western Australia 156,000 km 2: 60,000 sq mi 5 2.0% 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: ...
The border between North America and South America is at some point on the Darién Mountains watershed that divides along the Colombia–Panama border where the isthmus meets the South American continent (see Darién Gap). Virtually all atlases list Panama as a state falling entirely within North America and/or Central America. [116] [117]
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
6 South America. 7 Polar regions. Toggle Polar regions subsection ... Kara Kum – a large desert in Central Asia; ... Tanami Desert in Australia. Central Desert ...
Western Australia is the largest state, covering just under one third of the Australian landmass, followed by Queensland, South Australia, and New South Wales. Australia also has several minor territories; the federal government administers a separate area within New South Wales, the Jervis Bay Territory, as a naval base and seaport for the ...
Gulf of Oman desert and semi-desert: Oman, United Arab Emirates: Hobyo grasslands and shrublands: Somalia: Ile Europa and Bassas da India xeric scrub: Bassas da India, Europa: Kalahari xeric savanna: Botswana, Namibia, South Africa: Kaokoveld desert: Angola, Namibia: Madagascar spiny thickets: Madagascar: Madagascar succulent woodlands: Madagascar
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.
These divisions [are] generally themselves spoken as continents, and to them has been added another, embracing the large island of Australia and numerous others in the [Pacific] Ocean, under the name of Oceania. There are thus six great divisions of the earth — Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America and Oceania." [22]