Australia. Guide to Australia

‘Desert’

Пустыня Гибсона (Gibson Desert) - Sandy desert in the middle of Western Australia, area 155 530Km ². The desert is located south of the Tropic of Capricorn, Between Great Sandy Desert in the north and Great Victoria Desert South.

From the west desert is bounded Hamersley Range, well as with western and eastern parts consists of long parallel ridges of sand, and in the central part of the terrain leveled. In the western part there are several lakes, marshes, including Lake Disappoyntment, which is located on the border with the Great Sandy Desert.

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Пустыня Симпсона (Simpson Desert) - Sandy desert in the heart of Australia, is 2.3% area of ​​the continent. The desert is mostly in the south-east Northern Territory, and in the states Квинсленд and South Australia. The area of ​​the desert 143 Thd. км², bounded on the west river Finke, from the north - the backbone of Mc Donnell and the river Plenty, from the east - the rivers, and Mulligan Dajamantina, and from the south - a large salt Lake Eyre.

Through the desert rivers Todd Simpson, Plenty, Hale, Hey; in the southern part there are many ephemeral salt lakes. Soils are mainly sandy dune ridges parallel, in the south-eastern part of the sand and gravel,shores of Lake Eyre - clay. Sand dunes 20-37 m stretch from the north-west to south-east on the distance to the 160 km.

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Strzelecki Desert (Shooting) - Desert in the south-eastern Australia. The area of ​​the desert 1% area of ​​Australia. The desert is located in the northeast State of South Australia, north-west New South Wales and the extreme south-west Квинсленда,to the north-east of Lake Eyre and north of the Flinders Ranges. In the north-west passes into Simpson Desert.

Pass through the desert bed of seasonal rivers Strzelecki Creek and Yandama Creek, downstream rack-Cooper Creek and Dajamantina. On the northern edge of the desert settlements are Berdsvill, Kordillo-Downes, Gidgella and Innaminka, on the south side - Itadanna. In the north-western outskirts - a swamp Goyder Lagoon.

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