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	Asia Images
		East of the mountains are the orange sands of the Nafud Desert, known for its sudden violent winds that have formed many great crescent-shaped dunes (barely discernible near the north center of the photograph).
		Near the horizon are the Gulf of Suez, the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, the eastern Mediterranean Sea, and the western half of the Syrian Desert (NASA - June 1991).
		The dissected Hijaz Mountains and the northwestern portion the Nafud Desert of Saudi Arabia are visible in this high-oblique, northwest-looking photograph.
	www.globe-images.net /asia.htm (2720 words)

	Thar Desert,Great Indian Desert,Thar Desert Travel,Thar Desert in Rajasthan India
		A tract of rolling sand hills, the Thar Desert is bordered by the irrigated Indus plains to the west, the Aravalli Range to the southeast, the Rann of Kachchh to the south, and the Punjab plain to the north and northeast.
		Yielding salt and gypsum, the desert is formed due to the scant rainfall received by the region as a result of the dryness of the prevailing monsoon winds.
		Stretches of sand in the desert are interspersed by hillocks and sandy and gravel plains.
	rajasthan.indiantravelportal.com /sand-dunes/thar-desert.html (784 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Great Sandy Desert is a flat area between the rocky ranges of the Pilbara and the Kimberley.
		To the southeast is the Gibson Desert and to the east is the Tanami Desert.
		The vegetation of the Great Sandy Desert is dominated by spinifex.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Great_Sandy_Desert (482 words)

	Great Sandy Desert, Western Australia.
		The Great Sandy Desert is a flat area laying between the rocky ranges of the Pilbara and the Kimberley.
		To the south east is the Gibson Desert.
		Rainfall is low throughout, the coast and far north near the Kimberley do have an average exceeding 300mm (12ins), but the rainfall is patchy with many drought years often ending in a monsoonal cloud mass or Tropical Cyclone.
	home.iprimus.com.au /ozthunder/oz/sandy.html (0 words)

	Site index DesertUSA
		Three of these deserts -- the Chihuahuan, the Sonoran and the Mojave -- are called "hot deserts," because of their high temperatures during the long summer and because the evolutionary affinities of their plant life are largely with the subtropical plant communities to the south.
		The Great Basin Desert is called a "cold desert" because it is generally cooler and its dominant plant life is not subtropical in origin.
		OR The entire region from the northern boundary of the Sonoran Desert of Arizona to southwestern Colorado and southern Utah, encompassing the Colorado River, the Colorado Plateau and its numerous parks and monuments.
	www.desertusa.com /glossary.html (825 words)

	WWF Global 200 Ecoregions -- Great Sandy-Tanami Deserts (129)
		The Great Sandy Desert stretches inland from the Indian Ocean, running into the Tanami Desert to the east and the Gibson Desert to the south.
		The sandy plateaus are dotted with salt marshes and dry lake beds.
		Desert and white treefrogs, sandy burrowing frogs, desert spadefoot toads, and metallic toadlets also do well with very little water.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/g200/g129.html (499 words)

	The Desert Region: Legend Desert Region, Great Desert, Little Desert, Luni River, Rajasthan, land of Rajas, Aravali ...
		The desert region comprising the whole of Rajasthan and Gujarat can be divided into two parts of the sake of convenience.
		It is a country of sand dunes, desert and rocks interspersed with wonderful people, paiaces, forts, myriad colors, placid lakes, secluded sanctuaries, gardens, fertile tracts, forests and superb scenery.
		The musicians standing outside the circle, accompany the dance on drums, etc. The dance involves complex circular movements in which various floor designs and patterns are formed resembling those painted on the walls of the mud houses in the villages.
	www.4to40.com /music/index.asp?id=13 (2203 words)

	Great Sandy Desert - Definition, explanation
		The Great Sandy Desert is a 360 000 km² expanse in northwestern Australia.
		The Great Sandy Desert is a flat area between the rocky ranges of the Pilbara and the Kimberley.
		Rainfall is low throughout: the coast and far north near the Kimberley do have an average exceeding 300mm (12in), but the rainfall is patchy with many drought years often ending in a monsoonal cloud mass or tropical cyclone.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/g/gr/great_sandy_desert.php (396 words)

	Desert Animal Printouts - EnchantedLearning.com
		Animals that live in the desert have adaptations to cope with the lack of water, the extreme temperatures, and the shortage of food.
		To avoid daytime heat, many desert animals are nocturnal; they burrow beneath the surface or hide in the shade during the day, emerging at night to eat.
		Bactrian Camels are two-humped camels from deserts and steppes of Asia.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /biomes/desert/desert.shtml (0 words)

	Desert Animal Printouts - EnchantedLearning.com
		Animals that live in the desert have adaptations to cope with the lack of water, the extreme temperatures, and the shortage of food.
		To avoid daytime heat, many desert animals are nocturnal; they burrow beneath the surface or hide in the shade during the day, emerging at night to eat.
		Bactrian Camels are two-humped camels from deserts and steppes of Asia.
	www.zoomdinosaurs.com /biomes/desert/desert.shtml (1270 words)

	Global Deserts Outlook
		The Gibson Desert, the "great undulating desert of gravel", is an area of red gravel soils with mulga (Acacia aneura) accompanied by other droughtresistant shrubs and hardy spinifex (Triodia) grass.
		The Great Sandy-Tanami Desert is an extensive area of reddish sand plains out of which rises the great Uluru (Ayers Rock); the plains are covered by clumps of spinifex and scattered saltbush (Atriplex spp.) with sparse, spiny acacias and tall desert oaks (Allocasuarina decaisneana).
		The dunes and sand plains of the Simpson Desert carry sparse shrubs and spinifex with cane grass (Eragrostis australasica) on the deep sands along the crests of dunes, and coolibah (Eucalyptus sp.) snaking across the northeastern corner.
	www.unep.org /geo/GDOutlook/062.asp (337 words)

	Australia Post Stamps -- Nature of Australia Desert
		The desert habitat was introduced in August 2001 with the Desert Birds issue.
		The Great Sandy Desert is in Western Australia and the Northern Territory.
		The Great Sandy Desert has more reptile species than any other desert in the world and the thorny devil is one of the more spectacular reptiles found there.
	www.auspost.com.au /philatelic/stamps/index.asp?link_id=2.581 (506 words)

	Stayfinder.com - Australia - Deserts
		The total area of these deserts is 18 per cent of the total mainland area of Australia.
		The Great Sandy Desert is a flat area lying between the rocky ranges of the Pilbara and the Kimberley.
		The Great Victoria Desert occupies the southern portion of the area and borders the Nullarbor Plain.
	www.stayfinder.com /travelguide/australia/deserts/default.asp (381 words)

	Great Sandy Desert, Australia - Second Largest Desert In Australia
		The Great Sandy Desert is located in the north of Western Australia, below the Kimberley region on the northern coast, and to the east of the Pilbara, as this part of the western coast is called.
		The famous Kata Tjuta Uluru National Park (Ayers Rock) is actually located in the far south east corner of the Great Sandy Desert, where the Great Sandy, the Gibson and the Tanami deserts come together.
		The Great Sandy Desert is very flat, which is all the more noticeable next to the rocky ranges and hills in the Kimberley or Pilbara.
	www.outback-australia-travel-secrets.com /great-sandy-desert.html (935 words)

	expedition
		Much of the northern part of the Great Sandy Desert, which is Australia’s largest, lies in the tropics and therefore sometimes reaps the benefit of monsoonal rains that dip south.
		As the name suggests, it is mainly a sand dune desert, but with a large area of laterite flats, particularly to the south of Lake Gregory, which are similar to those of the Gibson.
		The Gibson Desert, best known perhaps as the area where the explorer Ernest Giles’ unfortunate offsider Alfred Gibson died, is a huge desert lying to the north of the Great Victoria Desert.
	www.cameltreks.com.au /expeditions.html (842 words)

	arabian desert (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Arabian Desert, arid region, eastern Egypt, lying between the Mediterranean Sea on the north, the Red Sea and the Gulf of Suez on the east, the Nubian Desert (along latitude 22° N) on the south, and the Nile River on the west.
		The western edge of the desert is demarcated by cliffs that rise steeply from the Nile Valley.
		The name Arabian Desert is also applied popularly to the Rub' al Khali (Empty Quarter), also called the Great Sandy Desert, of the Arabian Peninsula, one of the hottest and most sparsely inhabited sand dune deserts of the world.
	library.thinkquest.org /C007160/arabian.htm (266 words)

	australia landforms map
		Along the southern coastline on the Great Australian Bight, (Bight: a bend or curve in the shoreline) the local terrain is unparalleled.
		Similar to the Great Sandy Desert, it has large areas of red sand plains, scrub vegetation and a few scattered hills.
		High temperatures in the desert often exceed 120º F, and even though humans are advised to be cautious here in summer, the desert itself is far from lifeless.
	www.worldatlas.com /webimage/countrys/oceania/aussnewld.htm (1079 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Great Sandy-Tanami desert (AA1304)
		In Western Australia, the Great Sandy Desert is an uninhabited wilderness where high red sand dunes extend in parallel rows for hundreds of miles.
		To the east, the Tanami Desert is a vast area of red sandplains broken up by hills and ranges.
		The largest remaining population of the endangered rufous hare wallaby lives in the Tanami Desert.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/aa/aa1304.html (0 words)

	WWF - Great Sandy-Tanami Deserts - A Global Ecoregion
		The Great Sandy-Tanami deserts are the richest deserts in Australia that exhibit high levels of local endemism.
		Despite their name and dramatic, remarkably parallel linear sand dunes, this "sandy" desert is actually slightly wetter than the central part of the country.
		Among the numerous species of reptiles found here are Desert cave gecko (Heteronotia spelea), Desert death adder (Acanthophis pyrrhus), the Woma (Aspidites ramsayi), and the endemic Red dragon (Ctenophorus rufescens).
	www.panda.org /about_wwf/where_we_work/ecoregions/great_sandy_tanami_deserts.cfm (316 words)

	Balgo Paintings, Page 5: Helicopter
		It is an unusual painting in that unlike many of his other paintings from this period it depicts a single soakage and the area surrounding it rather than a chain of linked soakages with a more expansive "macro view" of the landscape.
		The central yellow and white field is a dry sandy creek bed in which the soakage (the fl circle) is situated.
		Knowing the location of water sources was of paramount importance to the survival of this desert culture and many of the songs and stories on one level trace the geographical relationships of these water sources.
	www.aboriginal-art.com /desert_pages/balgo_5.html (481 words)

	Lost in the desert - National - www.smh.com.au
		Late 1986 - James Annetts, 16, of NSW, and Simon Amos, 17, of SA, jackeroos from different stations, disappear in the Great Sandy Desert.
		Their remains are found in separate locations in 1987, four months after they disappeared, a few kilometres from their vehicle.
		Six months earlier, the Sydney man had gone north into the isolated desert in a 30-year-old army truck.
	www.smh.com.au /news/National/Lost-in-the-desert/2005/04/12/1113251601431.html (364 words)

	australia desert, great victoria desert, australian desert tours, desert safari in australia
		The Great Victoria Desert stretches over the South Australian border into the pastoral leases of South Australia to the east, and south to the Nullabor Plain.
		The Desert rises from an elevation of about 200 mt above sea level in the south to 700 mt in the north.
		The Simpson Desert situated in the Northern Territory is a large desert of sand ridges and it occupies most of South Eastern Northern Territory.
	www.planetgypsy.com /destinations/australia/deserts.html (381 words)

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		In the deserts of Mongolia, which can be extremely cold, people wear many layers of clothing with thick pants and boots made of animal hide and fur.
		Desert farmers often grow most of their own food, and herders rely heavily on the milk and meat from their animals, especially when they are far from the nearest town or village.
		People also live comfortably in cities of oil-rich desert lands in the Middle East, but many of their citizens are poor.
	homepage.mac.com /siselcom/habitats/4ADeserts/webmichal/deserts.html (839 words)

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		The Great Sandy Desert is in North Western part of Australia.
		The Great Sandy Desert is in Western Australia.
		The biggest Great White Shark was 19 feet and 6 inches and it was found in Western Australia.
	www.riverdale.k12.or.us /~mitchellm10/greatsandy (433 words)

	Chapter 39
		Its claims were in an area of the Great Sandy Desert near Cuncudgerie.
		He told them that he was planning to lead a joint expedition with Miskatonic Expedition into the Great Sandy Desert next year to verify MacWhirr's claims of having discovered a vast, cyclopean city.
		National Art Gallery and, in the aboriginal art section, noticed a rather disturbing portrait on bark depicting a dying man, his body bloated and fl, surrounded by stick figures holding jagged clubs Lya spoke to the curator and learned that the object represented a ritual sacrifice by a cult of bat worshippers.
	home1.gte.net /res0k39k/chapter_39.html (1553 words)

	National Mapping - Fab Facts, Landforms, Sandy Desert Image and Information
		To the south, the basalt-capped Liverpool Range swings north-east as a spur of the Great Divide, and then an encircling rim of ranges continue north-west to the prominent volcanic remnants of Mount Kaputar (1508m).
		Flanked by the foothills of the Great Dividing Range to the north, this once timbered region is now primarily dairying country, with some forestry evident to the south, and brown coal mining further west.
		Numerous sharply angular islands have been formed, notably the large, tenuously connected Tasman Peninsula to the east, Maria Island with its wafer thin sand isthmus to the north, and similarly, the elongated Bruny Island to the south-west, adjacent to the Huon River.
	www.ga.gov.au /education/facts/landforms/space.htm (1228 words)

	7.30 Report - 13/04/2005: Two die in Great Sandy Desert
		Travellers badly prepared, not telling others where they are or where they're going, broken down in desert country and dead from lack of water.
		MICK O'DONNELL: The Great Sandy Desert, this is where two New South Wales men, Mac Bevan Cody, who was only 21, and his 40-year-old uncle Bradley Richards were found dead by their vehicle last Friday.
		The most famous being the case of two young jackaroos who died in the Great Sandy Desert in 1986.
	www.abc.net.au /7.30/content/2005/s1344756.htm (1143 words)

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