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Tanami Desert

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Tanami Desert

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desert in Northern Australia

Key facts

Area
259,972.77 km (100,376.05 mi )
Country
Australia
State
Western Australia , Northern Territory
Coordinates
20°S 130°E / 20°S 130°E / -20; 130

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Encyclopedic overview

The Tanami Desert (Warlpiri: Jarnami) is a desert in northern Australia, situated in the Northern Territory and Western Australia.

It has a rocky terrain and small hills. The Tanami was the Northern Territory's final frontier and was not fully explored by Australians of European descent until well into the twentieth century. It is traversed by the Tanami Track.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tanami Desert” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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