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Gibson Desert

noun

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



Gibson Desert

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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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.

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She had never seen white people, and her entire life had been spent moving around a small area of the Gibson Desert.

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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.

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