List of deserts explained
This is a list of deserts sorted by the region of the world in which the desert is located.
Africa
Asia
Europe
Spain
Other European nations
North America
See main article: List of North American deserts.
Oceania
Australia
See main article: Deserts of Australia.
South America
Polar regions
Antarctic
Arctic
- Arctic Desert – the second largest "desert" in the world, though it consists of frozen ocean, land ice, and tundra, so (like the rest of this section) not a desert climate in any conventional sense
Pseudo-deserts
Some geographical features are referred to as "deserts", and this word may even feature in their names, despite not meeting any meteorological definitions for a desert.
- Accona Desert – area of Siena, Italy.
- Barreiro da Faneca – clayey expanse in the Azores.
- Błędowska Desert – area of sands in Poland.
- The Burren – limestone karst in County Clare, Republic of Ireland.
- Carcross Desert – sand-dune system in Yukon, Canada.
- Chara Sands – region of Siberia, Russia.
- Deliblatska Peščara – sand expanse in Vojvodina, Serbia.
- Desert of Maine – 40-acre expanse of glacial sand-dunes in Maine, United States.
- Desert of Wales – a large, upland area of Wales.
- Dunas dos Ingleses – sand-dune system in Brazil.
- Dungeness – shingle expanse in South East England, United Kingdom, misleadingly nicknamed "Britain's only desert".[8]
- Highlands of Iceland – the interior plateau of Iceland;
- Joaquina Beach – beach in Brazil.
- Kaʻū Desert – an area of desertification in Hawaii, due to the acid rainfall caused by the nearby Kīlauea volcano.
- Larzac – limestone karst plateau in the south of the Massif Central, France.
- Lençóis Maranhenses National Park
- Lieberose Desert - a desert on a former military training ground in southern Brandenburg, Germany
- Melnik Desert Canyon – a canyon in Bulgaria.
- Oltenian Sahara – area of desertification in Oltenia, Romania.
- The Stone Desert – rock formation in Bulgaria.
- Red Desert – desert-like region in South Africa.
- Sand dunes of Lemnos – sand-dune expanse on Lemnos, Greece.
- Sands of Đurđevac – sand-dune system in Croatia.
- Sleeping Bear Dunes – lakeshore in Michigan, United States.
- Słowiński National Park – sand-dune expanse in Poland.
- Tottori Sand Dunes – sand-dune system in Tottori Prefecture, Japan.
- Chad Basin National Park – desert park in northern Nigeria.
See also
Notes and References
- News: Los desiertos de Navarra . 26 April 2018 . 13 October 2019 . . es . Vocento.
- Capel Molina, J.J. (1995) Mapa pluviométrico de España Peninsular y Baleares (en el periodo internacional 1961-1990) Investigaciones Geográficas nº 13: 29-466ISSN 0213-4691 pdf Idioma: español. Acceso: 3/7/2009.
- Web site: 2022-05-21 . Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park . 2024-02-10 . earthobservatory.nasa.gov . en.
- Web site: Los 5 desiertos más grandes de España . 2024-04-24 . Fundación Aquae . es.
- News: Nadal . Paco . 19 August 2017 . El desierto de Tabernas, un lugar de otro mundo . es . . . 13 October 2019.
- Web site: Largest desert in the world. 2012-02-02.
- Web site: Hot and cold deserts of the world. 2022-03-03.
- News: 'Why go to the Sahara when you can visit Kent?': 'desert' life in Dungeness . Nick . Hunt . 11 May 2021. The Guardian. 27 January 2022.