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The deserts in the interior and south lack any significant summer rains. The desert in western Australia is well explained by the little evaporation of the cold sea current of the West Australian Current, of polar origin, which prevents significant rainfall in the interior of the continent. [3] About 40% of Australia is covered by dunes. [5]
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 ... Australia: 6: Gobi Desert: Cold winter: 1,295,000 [1]
This is a list of deserts sorted by the region of the world in which the desert is located. Africa. Namib Desert. ... Tanami Desert in Australia.
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.
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)
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.
A four wheel drive in the Gibson Desert. 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.