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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 ...
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 ...
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
Kara Kum – a large desert in Central Asia; Lop Desert – a desert in China; Ordos – a desert in northern China Kubuqi Desert – a desert in northern China; Mu Us Desert – a desert in northern China; Gobi – a desert in Mongolia and China Badain Jaran Desert – a desert in China; Hami Desert – a desert in China; Tengger Desert – a ...
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)
The largest of these deserts are found in Central Asia. Others occur on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains, the eastern side of the southern Andes and in southern Australia. [11] Polar deserts are a particular class of cold desert.
These varying definitions are not generally reflected in the map of Asia as a whole; for example, Egypt is typically included in the Middle East, but not in Asia, even though the bulk of the Middle East is in Asia. The demarcation between Asia and Africa is the Suez Canal, the Gulf of Suez, the Red Sea, and the Bab-el-Mandeb.
[6] [7] The landscape is desert sands with areas of wooded steppe and shrubby grassland. The Great Sandy Desert is a large area of red desert sand dunes, while the Tanami Desert to the east is flat sand broken up with areas of hills. One prominent landmark in the region is the large sandstone rock Uluru. The climate is hot and dry and the area ...