Great Sandy Desert
The Great Sandy Desert is an interim Australian bioregion, located in the northeast of Western Australia straddling the Pilbara and southern Kimberley regions and extending east into the Northern Territory.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: Desert
- Description: ecoregion and desert in Northern Western Australia
- Also known as: “Den store sandørken”, “Den store sandørkenen”, “Gran Desert de Sorra”, “Gran desierto de arena”, “Grand desert de sable”, “Grande Deserto de Areia”, “Great Sandy Desert (öken i Australien)”, “Great Sandy Desert, Australia”, “Great Sandy Desert, Western Australia”, “Iso Hiekka-autiomaa”, “Katta qumli cho‘l”, “Katta Qumli Cho‘l”, “Katta qumli cho’l”, “Katta Qumli Cho’l”, “Katta qumli cho`l”, “Katta Qumli Cho`l”, “Katta Qumli Choʻl”, “Marele deşert nisipos”, “Велика пјешчана пустиња”, “بیابان گریت سندی”, “ग्रेट सैंडी मरुस्थल”, and “大沙地沙漠”
Great Sandy Desert
- Categories: bioregion and landform
- Location: Western Australia, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-20.91602° or 20° 54′ 58″ south
Longitude
124.68471° or 124° 41′ 5″ east
Elevation
289 metres (948 feet)
Open location code
5QF63MMM+HV
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Uzbek—“Great Sandy Desert” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Groot Sandwoestyn”
- Afrikaans: “Groot-Sandwoestyn”
- Arabic: “صحراء الرمل الكبرى”
- Armenian: “Ավազային Մեծ անապատ”
- Azerbaijani: “Böyük Qumlu səhra”
- Basque: “Hondarrezko Basamortu Handia”
- Belarusian: “Вялікая Пясчаная пустыня”
- Bhojpuri: “ग्रेट सैंडी रेगिस्तान”
- Bosnian: “Velika pješčana pustinja”
- Bulgarian: “Голяма пясъчна пустиня”
- Catalan: “Gran Desert Arenós”
- Cebuano: “Great Sandy Desert (kamadan sa Awstralya)”
- Cebuano: “Great Sandy Desert”
- Chinese: “大沙沙漠”
- Croatian: “Velika pješčana pustinja”
- Czech: “Velká písečná poušť”
- Dutch: “Grote Zandwoestijn”
- Egyptian Arabic: “صحرا الرمل الكبرى”
- Esperanto: “Granda Sabla Dezerto”
- Estonian: “Suur Liivakõrb”
- Finnish: “Iso Hiekka-aavikko”
- French: “Grand désert de sable”
- French: “Grand Désert de Sable”
- Georgian: “დიდი ქვიშიანი უდაბნო”
- German: “Grosse Sandwüste”
- German: “Große Sandwüste”
- Hebrew: “מדבר החול הגדול”
- Hindi: “ग्रेट सैंडी”
- Hungarian: “Nagy Homoksivatag”
- Hungarian: “Nagy-homoksivatag”
- Indonesian: “Gurun Pasir Besar”
- Italian: “Gran Deserto Sabbioso”
- Japanese: “グレートサンディ砂漠”
- Kannada: “ಗ್ರೇಟ್ ಸ್ಯಾಂಡೀ ಮರುಭೂಮಿ”
- Korean: “그레이트샌디 사막”
- Latvian: “Lielais Smilšu tuksnesis”
- Lithuanian: “Didžioji Smėlio dykuma”
- Maithili: “ग्रेट स्यान्डी मरुभूमि”
- Mongolian: “Их элсэн цөл”
- Nepali: “ग्रेट स्यान्डी मरुभूमि”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Store sandørken”
- Norwegian: “Store sandørken”
- Panjabi: “ਮਹਾਨ ਰੇਤਲਾ ਮਾਰੂਥਲ”
- Persian: “بیابان ماسهای بزرگ”
- Polish: “Wielka Pustynia Piaszczysta”
- Portuguese: “Grande Deserto Arenoso”
- Romanian: “Marele Deșert Nisipos”
- Russian: “Большая Песчаная пустыня”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Fàsach Mhòr na Gainmhich”
- Serbian: “Velika peščana pustinja”
- Serbian: “Велика пешчана пустиња”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Velika pješčana pustinja”
- Slovak: “Veľká piesočná púšť”
- Slovenian: “Velika peščena puščava”
- Spanish: “Gran Desierto Arenoso”
- Swedish: “Stora Sandöknen”
- Tajik: “Биёбони регзори калон”
- Tamil: “பெரிய மணற்பாங்கான பாலைவனம்”
- Telugu: “గ్రేట్ శాండీ ఎడారి”
- Turkish: “Büyük Kum Çölü”
- Ukrainian: “Велика Піщана пустеля”
- Uzbek: “Katta qumli choʻl”
- “ग्रेट सैंडी रेगिस्तान”
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