Great Victoria Desert

The Great Victoria Desert is a sparsely populated desert ecoregion and interim Australian bioregion in and .
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  • Type: Desert
  • Description: desert in Western Australia and South Australia
  • Also known as: Great Australian Desert”, “Great Victorian Desert”, “The Great Australian Peneplain”, and “Victoria Desert

Great Victoria Desert

Latitude
-28.5° or 28° 30′ south
Longitude
127.75° or 127° 45′ east
Elevation
353 metres (1,158 feet)
Open location code
5Q39GQ22+22
Geo­Names ID
2070449
Wiki­data ID
Q145165
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Great Victoria Desert” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Groot Victoriawoestyn
  • Albanian: Shkretëtira e Madhe e Viktorisë
  • Arabic: صحراء فكتوريا الكبرى
  • Armenian: Վիկտորիա մեծ անապատ
  • Asturian: Gran Desiertu de Victoria
  • Azerbaijani: Böyük Viktoriya səhrası
  • Bashkir: Ҙур Виктория сүле
  • Basque: Victoria Basamortu Handia
  • Belarusian: Вялікая пустыня Вікторыя
  • Belarusian: Вялікая пустэльня Вікторыі
  • Bengali: গ্রেট ভিক্টোরিয়া মরুভূমি
  • Bosnian: Velika Viktorijina pustinja
  • Bulgarian: Виктория
  • Catalan: Gran Desert de Victòria
  • Cebuano: Great Victoria Desert
  • Chinese: 大維多利亞沙漠
  • Chinese: 大维多利亚沙漠
  • Croatian: Velika Viktorijina pustinja
  • Czech: Velká Viktoriina poušť
  • Dutch: Grote Victoriawoestijn
  • Egyptian Arabic: صحرا فكتوريا الكبرى
  • Esperanto: Granda Viktoria-Dezerto
  • Estonian: Suur Victoria kõrb
  • Finnish: Iso Victorian aavikko
  • French: Grand désert de Victoria
  • Galician: Gran Deserto de Victoria
  • Galician: Gran Deserto de Vitoria
  • Georgian: ვიქტორიას დიდი უდაბნო
  • German: Große Victoria-Wüste
  • Greek: Έρημος Μεγάλη Βικτώρια
  • Hebrew: מדבר ויקטוריה הגדול
  • Hindi: ग्रेट विक्‍टोरिया
  • Hungarian: Nagy-Viktória-sivatag
  • Icelandic: Viktoríueyðimörkin
  • Indonesian: Gurun Victoria Besar
  • Irish: Gaineamhlach Mór Victoria
  • Italian: Gran Deserto Victoria
  • Italian: Gran Deserto Vittoria
  • Japanese: グレートビクトリア砂漠
  • Kannada: ವಿಕ್ಟೋರಿಯಾ ಮರುಭೂಮಿ
  • Kazakh: Үлкен Виктория шөлі
  • Kirghiz: Виктория чоң чөлү
  • Korean: 그레이트빅토리아 사막
  • Latin: Desertum Victoria
  • Latvian: Lielais Viktorijas tuksnesis
  • Lithuanian: Didžioji Viktorijos dykuma
  • Maithili: ग्रेट भिक्टोरिया मरुभूमि
  • Malayalam: ഗ്രേറ്റ് വിക്ടോറിയ മരുഭൂമി
  • Mazanderani: ویکتوریا(شنی)
  • Mongolian: Викторийн их цөл
  • Nepali: ग्रेट भिक्टोरिया मरुभूमि
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Victoriaørkenen
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Victoriaørkenen
  • Norwegian: Victoriaørkenen
  • Panjabi: ਮਹਾਨ ਵਿਕਟੋਰੀਆ ਮਾਰੂਥਲ
  • Persian: بیابان گریت ویکتوریا
  • Polish: Wielka Pustynia Wiktorii
  • Portuguese: Grande Deserto de Vitória
  • Romanian: Marele Deșert Victoria
  • Russian: Большая пустыня Виктория
  • Scottish Gaelic: Fàsach Mhòr Bhictòria
  • Serbian: Велика Викторијина пустиња
  • Serbo-Croatian: Velika Viktorijina pustinja
  • Slovak: Veľká Viktóriina púšť
  • Slovenian: Velika Viktorijina puščava
  • Spanish: Gran Desierto de Victoria
  • Swahili: Jangwa Kubwa la Victoria
  • Swedish: Great Victoria Desert
  • Swedish: Stora Victoriaöknen
  • Tajik: Биёбони Виктория
  • Tajik: Биёбони калони Виктория
  • Tamil: விக்டோரியா பெரிய பாலைவனம்
  • Thai: ทะเลทรายเกรตวิกตอเรีย
  • Tibetan: ཝེ་ཁེ་ཏོ་རི་ཡ་བྱེ་ཐང་ཆེན་མོ།
  • Turkish: Büyük Victoria Çölü
  • Ukrainian: Велика пустеля Вікторія
  • Uzbek: Katta viktoriya choʻli
  • Uzbek: Katta Viktoriya choʻli
  • Vietnamese: Hoang mạc Victoria lớn
  • Vietnamese: Hoang mạc Victoria Lớn
  • Waray (Philippines): Great Victoria Desert
  • Wu Chinese: 大维多利亚沙漠
  • Yue Chinese: 大維多利亞沙漠
  • Zeeuws: Victoriawoestijn

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