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Great Victoria Desert

American  

noun

  1. a desert in SW central Australia. 125,000 sq. mi. (324,000 sq. km).


Great Victoria Desert British  

noun

  1. a desert in S Australia, in SE Western Australia and W South Australia. Area: 323 750 sq km (125 000 sq miles)

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Foggerdy had been missing since Wednesday when he left Shooter’s Shack campsite on the edge of the Great Victoria Desert, 1,120km east of Perth.

From The Guardian

This took them to Tjuntjuntjara, a tiny community in Western Australia's Great Victoria Desert, roughly halfway between Adelaide and Perth.

From Seattle Times

It was known now that the swarm of monsters had originated in the Great Victoria Desert, one of the worst stretches of desolation in the world, situated in the south-east corner of Western Australia.

From Project Gutenberg