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.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: Desert
- Description: desert in Western Australia
- Also known as: “Fàsach Gibson”, “Gibson desert”, “Gibson Desert (kamadan sa Awstralya, lat -23,73, long 128,00)”, “Gibson Desert (öken i Australien, lat -23,73, long 128,00)”, “Gibson-Wüste”, “Гибсона пустыня”, “Гібсанава пустыня”, and “صحراء قيبسون”
Gibson Desert
- Categories: WWF ecoregion, IBRA bioregion, and landform
- Location: Western Australia, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-23.73011° or 23° 43′ 48″ south
Longitude
127.99656° or 127° 59′ 48″ east
Elevation
505 metres (1,657 feet)
Open location code
5Q897X9W+XJ
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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”
- Azerbaijani: “Gibson səhrası”
- Azerbaijani: “Qibson səhrası”
- Basque: “Gibson basamortua”
- Belarusian: “Пустыня Гібсана”
- Bengali: “গিবসন মরুভূমি”
- Bulgarian: “Гибсън”
- Catalan: “Desert de Gibson”
- Cebuano: “Gibson Desert”
- Chinese: “吉布森沙漠”
- Czech: “Gibsonova poušť”
- Dutch: “Gibsonwoestijn”
- Egyptian Arabic: “صحرا جبسون”
- Esperanto: “Gibson-Dezerto”
- Estonian: “Gibsoni kõrb”
- Finnish: “Gibsonin aavikko”
- French: “désert de Gibson”
- French: “Désert de Gibson”
- Galician: “Deserto de Gibson”
- Georgian: “გიბსონის უდაბნო”
- 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”
- Mazanderani: “گيبسون”
- 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: “Пустыня Гибсона”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Fàsach Ghibson”
- Serbian: “Gibsonova pustinja”
- Serbian: “Гибсонова пустиња”
- Slovak: “Gibsonova púšť”
- Spanish: “Desierto de Gibson”
- Swedish: “Gibsonöknen”
- Tamil: “கிப்சன் பாலைவனம்”
- Turkish: “Gibson Çölü”
- Ukrainian: “Пустеля Гібсона”
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