Little Sandy Desert

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Little Sandy Desert crossed by the Canning Stock Route
Little Sandy Desert crossed by the Canning Stock Route
Little Sandy Desert near Durba Spring
Little Sandy Desert near Durba Spring
The IBRA regions, with Little Sandy Desert in red
The IBRA regions, with Little Sandy Desert in red

The Little Sandy Desert is a desert located in Western Australia south of the Great Sandy Desert and west of the Gibson Desert. It is thus named because it is relatively close and similar to the Great Sandy Desert, but is much smaller. Its landforms, fauna and flora, etc., are all similar to the Great Sandy Desert. Both deserts are crossed by the Canning Stock Route.

It is one of Western Australia's Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) regions.[1][2]

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  • Thackway, R and I D Cresswell (1995) An interim biogeographic regionalisation for Australia : a framework for setting priorities in the National Reserves System Cooperative Program Version 4.0 Canberra : Australian Nature Conservation Agency, Reserve Systems Unit, 1995. ISBN 0642213712