Tanami Desert
The Tanami Desert is a desert in northern Australia, situated in the Northern Territory and Western Australia. It has a rocky terrain and small hills. The Tanami was the Northern Territory's final frontier and was not fully explored by Australians of European descent until well into the twentieth century.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Tanami Desert
- Type: Desert
- Description: desert in Northern Australia
- Category: landform
- Location: Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-19.81° or 19° 48′ 36″ southLongitude
130.32° or 130° 19′ 12″ eastElevation
367 metres (1,204 feet)Open location code
5QGG58Q9+XXOpenStreetMap ID
node 5329275021OpenStreetMap feature
natural=desert
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“Tanami Desert” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Tanamiwoestyn”
- Arabic: “صحراء تنامي”
- Azerbaijani: “Tanami”
- Basque: “Tanamiko basamortua”
- Bulgarian: “Танами”
- Catalan: “Desert Tanami”
- Cebuano: “Tanami Desert (kamadan sa Awstralya, Northern Territory)”
- Cebuano: “Tanami Desert”
- Chinese: “塔纳米沙漠”
- Czech: “poušť Tanami”
- Czech: “Tanami”
- Dutch: “Tanamiwoestijn”
- Egyptian Arabic: “صحرا تنامى”
- Esperanto: “Tanami-Dezerto”
- Estonian: “Tanami kõrb”
- Finnish: “Tanamin aavikko”
- French: “désert de Tanami”
- French: “Désert de Tanami”
- Georgian: “ტანამის უდაბნო”
- German: “Tanamiwüste”
- Hebrew: “מדבר טאנאמי”
- Hungarian: “Tanami-sivatag”
- Italian: “Deserto di Tanami”
- Japanese: “タナミ砂漠”
- Latvian: “Tanami tuksnesis”
- Lithuanian: “Tanamio dykuma”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tanamiørkenen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tanamiørkenen”
- Norwegian: “Tanamiørkenen”
- Persian: “بیابان تانامی”
- Polish: “Tanami”
- Portuguese: “Deserto de Tanami”
- Russian: “Танами”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Tanami”
- Serbian: “Пустиња Танами”
- Spanish: “Desierto de Tanami”
- Swedish: “Tanami Desert”
- Tamil: “தனாமி பாலைவனம்”
- Turkish: “Tanami Çölü”
- Ukrainian: “Танамі”
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