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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Desert
- Description: ecoregion and desert in Northern Western Australia
- Also known as: “Great Sandy Desert, Australia” and “Great Sandy Desert, Western Australia”
Great Sandy Desert
- Categories: bioregion and landform
- Location: Western Australia, Australia, Oceania
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Satellite Map
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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 मरुस्थल”
- Bhojpuri: “ग्रेट सैंडी रेगिस्तान”
- Bosnian: “Velika pješčana pustinja”
- Bulgarian: “Голяма пясъчна пустиня”
- Catalan: “Gran Desert Arenós”
- Catalan: “Gran Desert de Sorra”
- Cebuano: “Great Sandy Desert (kamadan sa Awstralya)”
- Cebuano: “Great Sandy Desert”
- Chinese: “大沙地沙漠”
- Chinese: “大沙沙漠”
- Croatian: “Velika pješčana pustinja”
- Czech: “Velká písečná poušť”
- Dutch: “Great Sandy Desert”
- Dutch: “Grote Zandwoestijn”
- Egyptian Arabic: “صحرا الرمل الكبرى”
- Esperanto: “Granda Sabla Dezerto”
- Estonian: “Suur Liivakõrb”
- Finnish: “Iso Hiekka-aavikko”
- Finnish: “Iso Hiekka-autiomaa”
- French: “Grand desert de sable”
- 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: “Den store sandørken”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Den store sandørkenen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Great Sandy Desert”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Store sandørken”
- Norwegian: “Store sandørken”
- Panjabi: “ਮਹਾਨ ਰੇਤਲਾ ਮਾਰੂਥਲ”
- Persian: “شنزار بزرگ”
- Polish: “Wielka Pustynia Piaszczysta”
- Portuguese: “Grande Deserto Arenoso”
- Portuguese: “Grande Deserto de Areia”
- Romanian: “Marele deşert nisipos”
- Romanian: “Marele Deșert Nisipos”
- Russian: “Большая Песчаная пустыня”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Fàsach Mhòr na Gainmhich”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Great Sandy Desert”
- Serbian: “Velika peščana pustinja”
- Serbian: “Велика пешчана пустиња”
- Serbian: “Велика пјешчана пустиња”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Velika pješčana pustinja”
- Slovak: “Veľká piesočná púšť”
- Slovenian: “Velika peščena puščava”
- Spanish: “Gran Desierto Arenoso”
- Spanish: “Gran desierto de arena”
- Swedish: “Great Sandy Desert (öken i Australien)”
- Swedish: “Great Sandy Desert”
- Swedish: “Stora Sandöknen”
- Tajik: “Биёбони регзори калон”
- Tamil: “பெரிய மணற்பாங்கான பாலைவனம்”
- Ukrainian: “Велика Піщана пустеля”
- Uzbek: “Katta qumli cho‘l”
- Uzbek: “Katta Qumli Cho‘l”
- Uzbek: “Katta qumli cho’l”
- Uzbek: “Katta Qumli Cho’l”
- Uzbek: “Katta qumli cho`l”
- Uzbek: “Katta Qumli Cho`l”
- Uzbek: “Katta qumli choʻl”
- Uzbek: “Katta Qumli Choʻl”
- “ग्रेट सैंडी रेगिस्तान”
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