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.
Robertewelsh, Public domain.- Desert
- …lies at an elevation of 367 metres (1,204 feet)
- Description: desert in Northern Australia
Tanami Desert
- Category: landform
- Location
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Latitude
-19.81° or 19° 48′ 36″ south
Longitude
130.32° or 130° 19′ 12″ east
Open location code
5QGG58Q9+XX
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OpenStreetMap 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”
- Korean: “타나미 사막”
- 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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