Where would you find the Great Sandy Desert?
The Great Sandy Desert (GSD) is an interim Australian bioregion, located in the north west of Western Australia straddling the Pilbara and southern Kimberley regions. It is the second largest desert in Australia after the Great Victoria Desert and encompasses an area of 284,993 square kilometres (110,036 sq mi). The Gibson Desert lies to the south and the Tanami Desert lies to the east of the Great Sandy Desert.
The Great Sandy Desert contains large ergs, often consisting of longitudinal dunes. In the north east of the desert there is a meteorite impact crater, the Wolfe Creek crater.
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buhlemann
Finland, with more lakes per square mile than any other country, would be an odd place to find a desert.
Kathryn Cavanagh
Would have been ashamed NOT to have known the answer.! Am Australian.
Christopher J Voce
Most of Australia is some kind of desert, We all live on the coast, and many, in fact I would go as far as to say most, have not experienced the bush / outback or desert.
Howard Groopman
With an English name, had to be Australia.
ToniP
Christopher J Voce, agree. Though I have a few times.
Richard G Schwartz
I happen to like the name.
Jeniene Glass
Christopher J Voce, we don’t all live on the coast, although the majority might, there are significant populations away from the coast.