Deserts_of_Australia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Deserts of Australia Deserts of Australia Desert State/Territory Size Proportion of Australian landmass Great Victoria Desert Great Sandy Desert Western Australia, South Australia 348,750 km2 134,650 sq mi 4% Western Australia 267,250 km2 103,190 sq mi 3.5% 184,500 km2 71,200 sq mi 176,500 km2 68,100 sq mi 156,000 km2 60,000 sq mi 111,500 km2 43,100 sq mi 80,250 km2 29,750 km2 15,250 km2 1,250 km2 30,980 sq mi 11,490 sq mi 5,890 sq mi 480 sq mi 2.4% 2.3% 2.0% 1.5% 1.0% 0.3% 0.2% 0.1% Tanami Desert Western Australia, Northern Territory Simpson Desert Gibson Desert Little Sandy Desert Strzelecki Desert Sturt Stony Desert Tirari Desert Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia Western Australia Western Australia South Australia, Queensland, New South Wales South Australia, Queensland, New South Wales South Australia Pedirka Desert South Australia combined is 1,371,000 square kilometres (529,000 sq mi), and occupy 18% of the continent.[1] Larger Australian Deserts Note that the Western Desert comprises the Gibson Desert, the Great Sandy and Little Sandy Deserts and lies within Western Australia and South Australia. The total area is 524,750 km2 (202,610 sq mi) and is about 7% of the total Australian landmass. Great Victoria Desert Location of deserts in Australia Deserts cover a large portion of the land in Australia. Most of the deserts lie in the central and north-western part of the country. The largest part of Australia is desert or semi-arid. The size of the deserts in Australia The Great Victoria Desert lies in Western Australia and South Australia. It is over 700 kilometres (430 mi) wide and covers an area of 424,000 square kilometres (164,000 sq mi).n 1 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Deserts of Australia The Simpson Desert contains the world’s longest parallel sand dunes. Gibson Desert Other Australian Deserts • • • • • Little Sandy Desert Nullarbor Plain Strzelecki Desert Tanami Desert Tirari Desert Desert Groups • Western Desert – grouping of Gibson, Great Sandy and Little Sandy Deserts. A four wheel drive vehicle in the Gibson Desert The Gibson Desert lies in central Western Australia and is made up of sandhills and dry grass. The desert is about 60,000 square kilometres (23,000 sq mi) in size. Most of the inhabitants of the area are Indigenous Australians. References [1] Geosciences Australia Major Desert Table External links • Encarta • World Book • National Geographic Simpson Desert The Simpson Desert lies mainly in the southeast part of the Northern Territory, but parts of it are also in Queensland and South Australia. It covers an area of almost 100,000 square kilometres (39,000 sq mi). Further reading • Johnson, John & Catherine de Courcy.(1998) Desert Tracks Port Melbourne, Vic. Lothian Books. ISBN 0850918111 Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deserts_of_Australia" Categories: Deserts of Australia This page was last modified on 22 May 2009, at 17:53 (UTC). All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details.) Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a U.S. registered 501(c)(3) taxdeductible nonprofit charity. Privacy policy About Wikipedia Disclaimers 2