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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]
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
Pages in category "Deserts of Australia" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
This is a list of the largest deserts in the world by area. ... Australia: 6: Gobi Desert: Cold winter: 1,295,000 [1] 500,002: Eastern Asia: China ...
This is a list of deserts sorted by the region of the world in which the desert is located. Africa ... Great Sandy Desert – a northwestern Australian desert;
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.
Ecoregions in Australia are geographically distinct plant and animal communities, defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature based on geology, soils, climate, and predominant vegetation. The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) identified 825 terrestrial ecoregions that cover the Earth's land surface, 40 of which cover Australia and its dependent ...
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]