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Deserts of Australia cover a large portion of the land in Australia . Most of the deserts lie in the central and north-western part of the country. The largest part of Australia is desert or semi-arid. The size of the deserts in Australia combine is 1.3 million square miles, and occupies 44% of the continent. Or also given as 2.3 million square km [http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/desert/hot.htm SIZE As the area of a desert may not be easily measured exactly, different sizes have been given for Australia's deserts, as shown in this table which uses a number of sources Encarta 20 biggest deserts maps of world World's Largest Deserts mbgnet GREAT SANDY DESERT See Also: Great Sandy Desert The Great Sandy Desert is a flat area between the rocky ranges of the Pilbara and the Kimberley . Summer daytime temperatures are some of the hottest in Australia. GREAT VICTORIA DESERT See Also: Great Victoria Desert The Great Victoria Desert lies in Western Australia and South Australia . It is over 700 kilometres (435 miles) wide and covers and area of 424,400 square kilometers (163,900 mile&2). GIBSON DESERT See Also: Gibson Desert The Gibson Desert lies in central Western Australia and is made up of sandhills and dry grass. The desert is about 155,000 square kilometers (60000 square miles) in size. Most of the inhabitants of the area are Indigenous Australians. SIMPSON DESERT See Also: Simpson Desert The Simpson Desert lies mostly in the south-east part of the Northern Territory , but parts of it are also in Queensland and South Australia . It covers an area of almost 100,000 km&2. The Simpson Desert contains the world's longest parallel sand dunes. OTHER DESERTS REFERENCE |
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