the Gason Dome, upon which the Sturt Stony Desert is located. To the south west of Sturt Stony Desert is the Tirari Desert. The Birdsville Track is a route...
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The Tirari–Sturt stony desert is a deserts and xeric shrublands ecoregion in central Australia. The Tirari–Sturt stony desert ecoregion contains the gibber...
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Little Sandy Desert to the northwest, the Gibson Desert and the Central Ranges xeric shrublands to the north, the Tirari-Sturt stony desert to the east...
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Dunefields (SSD) Region. The desert is also part of the Tirari-Sturt stony desert ecoregion. The desert includes the Lake Ngapakaldi to Lake Palankarinna Fossil...
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Covering extensive areas in Australia such as parts of the Tirari-Sturt stony desert ecoregion are desert pavements called Gibber Plains after the pebbles or...
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Desert Great Sandy-Tanami desert Great Victoria Desert Nullarbor Plain xeric shrublands Pilbara shrublands Simpson Desert Tirari–Sturt stony desert Western...
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ISBN 978-0-7787-9343-4. "Tirari-Sturt stony desert". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund. Retrieved 16 June 2010. "Great Sandy-Tanami desert". Terrestrial...
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streambank froglet is an endemic amphibian. The Ranges are part of the Tirari–Sturt stony desert ecoregion. A team acting on behalf of the Government of South...
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The Taklamakan Desert (/ˌtæk.lə.məˈkæn/; Chinese: 塔克拉玛干沙漠; pinyin: Tǎkèlāmǎgān Shāmò, Xiao'erjing: تَاكْلامَاقًا شَاموْ, Dungan: Такәламаган Шамә; Uyghur:...
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Deserts of Australia (redirect from Australian Desert)
Simpson, Sturt, Strzelecki and Tirari Deserts in the east. Spatially isolated between Great Victoria Sand and Simpson lies the small Pedirka Desert, which...
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ecoregion lies to the south and southeast. The drier Simpson Desert and Tirari-Sturt stony desert ecoregions lie to the west. The mulga lands are sparsely...
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Sahara (redirect from Sahara desert)
/səˈhærə/) is a desert spanning across North Africa. With an area of 9,200,000 square kilometres (3,600,000 sq mi), it is the largest hot desert in the world...
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flat, stony plains where all the fine material has been blown away and the surface consists of a mosaic of smooth stones, often forming desert pavements...
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shrublands Australia Pilbara shrublands Australia Simpson Desert Australia Tirari–Sturt stony desert Australia Western Australian mulga shrublands Australia...
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The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa extending for 900,000 square kilometres (350,000 sq mi), covering much of Botswana...
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The Nafud desert or simply The Nafud (Arabic: صحراء النفود, romanized: ṣahrā' an-nafūd) is a desert in the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula at 28°18′N...
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The Thar Desert, also known as the Great Indian Desert, is an arid region in the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent that covers an area of...
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The Atacama Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Atacama) is a desert plateau located on the Pacific coast of South America, in the north of Chile. Stretching...
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The Aralkum Desert (Uzbek: Orolqum choʻli, Оролқум чўли, Kazakh: Аралқұм шөлі, Russian: Пустыня Аралкум) is a desert that has appeared since 1960 on the...
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border with Jordan and Iraq, and protects a portion of the stony basaltic Harrat al-Sham desert. The reserve includes rough terrain of black basaltic boulders...
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slanting to the south-east. Like most of the Sahara, this desert is primarily sand and hamada or stony plain. Sand plains, dunes, ridges, and some depressions...
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The Sonoran Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Sonora) is a hot desert in North America and ecoregion that covers the northwestern Mexican states of Sonora,...
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Eyre Basin—the Tirari Desert and the Simpson Desert. It is named after the Polish explorer Paweł Edmund Strzelecki by Charles Sturt. Sturt was the first...
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The Gobi Desert (Mongolian: Говь, ᠭᠣᠪᠢ, /ˈɡoʊbi/; Chinese: 戈壁; pinyin: gēbì) is a large, cold desert and grassland region in northern China and southern...
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The Karakum Desert, also spelled Kara-Kum and Gara-Gum (Turkmen: Garagum, pronounced [ɢɑɾɑˈɢʊm], from gara ("black") and gum ("sand"); Russian: Караку́мы...
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The Chihuahuan Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Chihuahua, Desierto Chihuahuense) is a desert ecoregion designation covering parts of northern Mexico and the...
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Simpson Desert using hand-dug wells called mikiri from long before European colonization until the Federation Drought. Explorer Charles Sturt, who visited...
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the Eastern Desert which extends east from the Nile to the Red Sea. The Western Desert is mostly rocky desert, though an area of sandy desert, known as...
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Jornada del Muerto (redirect from Jornada del Muerto Desert)
was the name given by the Spanish conquistadors to the Jornada del Muerto desert basin, and the almost waterless 90-mile (140 km) trail across the Jornada...
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hectares (29,659,770 acres). Gawler bioregion is part of the Tirari–Sturt stony desert ecoregion. The landscape consists of rolling terrain, rocky hills...
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