Gibson Desert
The Gibson Desert is a large desert in Western Australia, mainly in an almost pristine state. It is about 155,000 square kilometres in size, making it the fifth largest desert in Australia, after the Great Victoria, Great Sandy, Tanami and Simpson deserts.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Gibson Desert
- Type: Desert
- Description: desert in Western Australia
- Categories: WWF ecoregion, IBRA bioregion, and landform
- Location: Western Australia, Australia, Oceania
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“Gibson Desert” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Gibsonwoestyn”
- Albanian: “Shkretëtira e Gibsonit”
- Arabic: “صحراء جيبسون”
- Arabic: “صحراء قبسون”
- Arabic: “صحراء قيبسون”
- Azerbaijani: “Gibson səhrası”
- Azerbaijani: “Qibson səhrası”
- Basque: “Gibson basamortua”
- Belarusian: “Гібсанава пустыня”
- Belarusian: “Пустыня Гібсана”
- Bengali: “গিবসন মরুভূমি”
- Bulgarian: “Гибсън”
- Catalan: “Desert de Gibson”
- Cebuano: “Gibson Desert (kamadan sa Awstralya, lat -23,73, long 128,00)”
- Cebuano: “Gibson Desert”
- Chinese: “吉布森沙漠”
- Czech: “Gibson desert”
- Czech: “Gibsonova poušť”
- Dutch: “Gibson Desert”
- Dutch: “Gibsonwoestijn”
- Egyptian Arabic: “صحرا جبسون”
- Esperanto: “Gibson-Dezerto”
- Estonian: “Gibsoni kõrb”
- Finnish: “Gibsonin aavikko”
- French: “Desert de Gibson”
- French: “désert de Gibson”
- French: “Désert de Gibson”
- Galician: “Deserto de Gibson”
- Georgian: “გიბსონის უდაბნო”
- German: “Gibson Desert”
- German: “Gibson-Wüste”
- German: “Gibsonwüste”
- Hebrew: “מדבר גיבסון”
- Hungarian: “Gibson-sivatag”
- Indonesian: “Gurun Gibson”
- Italian: “deserto di Gibson”
- Italian: “Deserto di Gibson”
- Japanese: “ギブソン砂漠”
- Kannada: “ಗಿಬ್ಸನ್ ಮರುಭೂಮಿ”
- Kirghiz: “Гибсон чөлү”
- Korean: “기브슨 사막”
- Korean: “깁슨 사막”
- Latvian: “Gibsona tuksnesis”
- Lithuanian: “Gibsono dykuma”
- Northern Sami: “Gibsona sáttoáhpi”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gibsonørkenen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gibsonørkenen”
- Norwegian: “Gibsonørkenen”
- Persian: “بیابان گیبسون”
- Polish: “Pustynia Gibsona”
- Portuguese: “Deserto de Gibson”
- Quechua: “Gibson ch’in pacha”
- Russian: “Гибсона пустыня”
- Russian: “Пустыня Гибсона”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Fàsach Ghibson”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Fàsach Gibson”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Gibson Desert”
- Serbian: “Gibsonova pustinja”
- Serbian: “Гибсонова пустиња”
- Slovak: “Gibsonova púšť”
- Spanish: “Desierto de Gibson”
- Swedish: “Gibson Desert (öken i Australien, lat -23,73, long 128,00)”
- Swedish: “Gibson Desert”
- Swedish: “Gibsonöknen”
- Tamil: “கிப்சன் பாலைவனம்”
- Turkish: “Gibson Çölü”
- Ukrainian: “Пустеля Гібсона”
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