Tanami Desert
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The Tanami Desert is a desert in northern Australia situated in the Northern Territory. It has a rocky terrain with small hills. The Tanami Desert is one of the most isolated and arid places on Earth[citation needed]. The Tanami was the Northern Territory's final frontier and wasn't fully explored until well into the twentieth century. It is traversed by the Tanami Track.
Under the name Tanami, it is one of the Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) regions.[1][2]
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[edit] Statistics
- Area: 37529 km²
- Closest place to the Tanami Desert with recorded rainfall is Rabbit Flat, Northern Territory:
- Annual rainfall: 429.7 mm
- Mean daily max temperature: 33.5 °C
- Mean daily min temperature: 16.4 °C
- Mean number of clear days 169
- Mean daily evaporation 7.6 mm
[edit] Local groups
The Tanami Desert is Kukatja and Walbiri country.
[edit] References
- Gibson, D. F. (David F.) (1986) A biological survey of the Tanami Desert in the Northern Territory Alice Springs, N.T. : Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory, 1986. Technical report 072-9990 ; no. 30. ISBN 0724508368
- Kelly, Kieran, (2003) Tanami : on foot across Australia's desert heart Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia, 2003. ISBN 0732911885
[edit] Further reading
- 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
[edit] External links
- http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/publications/series/paper4/tan.html Australian government paper on environmental conditions.
