Great Victoria Desert
Australia's largest desert, a belt of dunes and gibber plains crossing Western and South Australia.
Specifications & Metrics
- area
- ~348,750 km²
Core Principles & Analysis
- It is crossed by the longest straight section of railway in the world, on the Nullarbor to its south.
- Bushfire mosaics maintained by Aboriginal burning shape its vegetation patterns.
- Its dune fields run parallel, aligned with the prevailing winds of the last glacial age.
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