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Gibson Desert

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Gibson Desert
A desert of west-central Australia bounded by the Great Sandy Desert on the north and Great Victoria Desert on the south. The area includes a number of salt lakes.
Gibson Desert
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(Placename) 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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Noun1.Gibson Desert - a desert area in western Australia
Australia, Commonwealth of Australia - a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony
Australian Desert, Great Australian Desert - general name given to all desert areas in Australia


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Great Sandy Desert, Gibson Desert, Great Victoria Desert
Map of Oceania by Junior Scholastic
Filmed in the Gibson desert, the landscape is at once forbidding for European eyes and familiar to aboriginal eyes.
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Great Sandy Desert, Gibson Desert, Great Victoria Desert
Map of Oceania by Junior Scholastic
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