Great Sandy Desert On World Map

The table at the bottom of this page provides the names, generalized locations, and surface areas of over twenty major deserts. A tentative name, great sandy world heritage area, has been inserted, but this is subject to consultation. Its fascinating landscape showcases superlative natural phenomena and areas of natural beauty through long beaches backed by high dunes.

Arabian desert (2,300,000 km²) arabian desert, largest desert in the world. This map shows the generalized location of earth's ten largest deserts on the basis of surface area. The great basin is an expansive watershed area that covers much of nevada, utah, oregon, idaho, california, wyoming, and baja california in mexico.

The proposed extension shares many of the values of the existing fraser island world heritage area.

The great sandy desert (gsd) lies between the kimberley and pilbara regions in the north of western australia. The great sandy desert is a large area of red desert sand dunes, while the tanami desert to the east is flat sand broken up with areas of hills. The table at the bottom of this page provides the names, generalized locations, and surface areas of over twenty major deserts. As with our other deserts different sources of information will give you different sizes for it.