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• Great Sandy Desert — There is another desert called Great Sandy Desert in Oregon, US. The Great Sandy Desert is a 267,250 km² (103,190 mi²) expanse in northwestern Australia. It forms part of a larger desert area known as the Western Desert. The vast region of… …   Wikipedia

• Little Sandy Desert — The Little Sandy Desert is a desert located in Western Australia south of the Great Sandy Desert and west of the Gibson Desert. It is thus named because it is relatively close and similar to the Great Sandy Desert, but is much smaller. Its… …   Wikipedia

• Great Sandy Desert — N section of the vast desert region of Western Australia …   English World dictionary

• Great Sandy Desert —   [ greɪt sændɪ dezət], Wüste in Australien, Große Sandwüste …   Universal-Lexikon

• Desert exploration — is the deliberate and scientific exploration of deserts, the arid regions of the earth. It is only incidentally concerned with the culture and livelihood of native desert dwellers. The nature of deserts ensures that the story of their exploration …   Wikipedia

• Desert pavement — near Barstow, California, in the Mojave Desert. A desert pavement is a desert surface that is covered with closely packed, interlocking angular or rounded rock fragments of pebble and cobble size …   Wikipedia

• Little Sandy Desert — Petit désert de sable Petit désert de sable Pays  Australie Supe …   Wikipédia en Français

• Desert iguana — Desert iguana[1] Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia …   Wikipedia

• Great Sandy Desert — noun 1. a desert in southern Saudi Arabia • Syn: ↑Rub al Khali, ↑Ar Rimsal, ↑Dahna • Instance Hypernyms: ↑desert • Part Holonyms: ↑Saudi Arabia, ↑Kingdom of Saudi Arabi …   Useful english dictionary

• Great Sandy Desert — 1. a desert in NW Australia, ab. 300 mi. (485 km) long; 500 mi. (800 km) wide; ab. 160,000 sq. mi. (414,400 sq. km). 2. See Rub al Khali. * * * Wasteland, northern Western Australia. It extends from Eighty Mile Beach on the Indian Ocean eastward… …   Universalium

• Sandy — Sand y, a. [Compar. {Sandier}; superl. {Sandiest}.] [AS. sandig.] 1. Consisting of, abounding with, or resembling, sand; full of sand; covered or sprinkled with sand; as, a sandy desert, road, or soil. [1913 Webster] 2. Of the color of sand; of a …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English