Gibson Desert

American  

noun

1. a desert in W central Australia: scrub; salt marshes. About 85,000 sq. mi. (220,000 sq. km).

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Gibson Desert British  

noun

1. a desert in W central Australia, between the Great Sandy Desert and the Victoria Desert: salt marshes, salt lakes, and scrub. Area: about 220 000 sq km (85 000 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

The Pintupi artist Yukultji Napangati lives and works in Western Australia’s Gibson Desert, and you can see it in her paintings.

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2019

The Gibson Desert extends over more than 58,000 sq miles and sports gravel terrains covered by desert grasses, as well as red sandy plains and dune fields.

From The Guardian • Dec. 8, 2016

We drove across dry creek beds and through a sparse forest before emerging in the Gibson Desert, an arid plain the size of the state of Georgia.

From Washington Post