Great Victoria Desert, Australia
Birgit Bradtke
Outback Australia Travel Guide
About the Great Victoria Desert
Size and Location
The Great Victoria is the largest Australian desert. Its size is 424,400 km2 (163,900 miles2) according to most sources (though I've seen anything between 348,750 km2/134,655 miles2 and 250,000 miles2).
If the last number is correct then the Great Victoria Desert in Australia is the third largest desert in the world, after the Sahara and the Arabian Desert. If the first number is correct it would still make it to number eight on the list, followed by the Great Sandy Desert. Two Western Australian deserts in the top ten...
I didn't go out and measure. Either way the Great Victoria Desert is the largest desert in Australia. It spans over 700 km/435 miles from west to east, with the western part of it belonging to Western Australia, and the eastern part extending into South Australia. It can take several days to cross this desert, but more about that later.
On the borders of the Great Victoria Desert you find... more deserts. The Gibson in the north, the Little Sandy Desert to the north-west, the Nullarbor Plain in the South, and the Tirary and the Sturt Stony Desert to the east. Australia is a dry country once you leave the coasts. No wonder people always talk about "the Outback desert" (which I guess sums up all the Australian deserts...).
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Aastha Tewari says: | 2011-08-29 09:58:16 |
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