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Oleshky Sands (Алешковские пески), more pictures of sand dunes. Three days through a forest, two - across fields (in Russian) a travel story through the Oleshky Sands with pictures. Singing Sands by Vladimir Chivilikhin (in Russian), a reflection story about the desert. Interviews with local scientists, historical research, other.
Dagestan Nature Reserve (Russian: Дагестанский заповедник) (also Dagestansky) is a Russian 'zapovednik' (strict nature reserve) that protects an area of sand dunes and ridges on the northwest coast of the Caspian Sea in the southeast of European Russia. The reserve, a wintering place for migratory birds, is the richest ...
It encompasses part of the Namib Desert (considered the world's oldest desert), the Naukluft mountain range, and the lagoon at Sandwich Harbour. The best-known area of the park and one of the main visitor attractions in Namibia is Sossusvlei , a clay pan surrounded by dunes, and Sesriem , a small canyon of the Tsauchab .
The Grand Erg Oriental (English: 'Great Eastern Sand Sea') is a large erg or "field of sand dunes" in the Sahara Desert. Situated for the most part in Saharan lowlands of northeast Algeria, the Grand Erg Oriental covers an area some 600 km wide by 200 km north to south. The erg's northeastern edge spills over into neighbouring Tunisia.
English: During sunset in the desert shadows from sand dunes can get several km long, while shadows from people can get hundreds meters long. Dakhla Oasis, Egypt. Libyan Desert forms the northern and eastern part of the Sahara Desert, the world's largest hot desert. Libyan Desert is one of the driest, harshest and most remote parts of the Sahara.
The Barsuki Desert is a desert zone in the Aktobe and Kyzylorda regions of Kazakhstan. It has two parts, the Greater Barsuki ( Kazakh : Үлкен Борсық ; Russian : Большие Барсуки ) in the west and the Lesser Barsuki ( Kazakh : Кіші Борсық ; Russian : Малые Барсуки ) in the east.
An erg (also sand sea or dune sea, or sand sheet if it lacks dunes) is a broad, flat area of desert covered with wind-swept sand with little or no vegetative cover. [1] The word is derived from the Arabic word ʿirq ( عرق ), meaning "dune field". [ 2 ]