Definition of Great Sandy Desert

1. Noun. A desert in southern Saudi Arabia.


2. Noun. A desert region in northwestern Australia to the north of the Gibson Desert.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Great Sandy Desert

Great North Road
Great Plains
Great Plains of North America
Great Pox
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
Great Pyramid
Great Pyramid at Giza
Great Pyramid of Giza
Great Pyrenees
Great Red Spot
Great Revolt
Great Rift Valley
Great Russian
Great Salt Lake
Great Sandy Desert (current term)
Great Satan
Great Seal
Great Seal of the United States
Great Sky River
Great Slave Lake
Great Smoky Mountains
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Great Turk
Great Victoria Desert
Great Wall
Great Wall of China
Great War
Great White North
Great White Way

Literary usage of Great Sandy Desert

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by Sir William Wilson Hunter (1885)
"Skirts the borders of the great sandy desert, and at present contains a small and scattered population. Numerous ruins of towns and villages show that the ..."

2. Narrative of the Chinese Embassy to the Khan of the Tourgouth Tartars: In by Tulišen (1821)
"TU-LI-SHIN and his Colleagues set out on their Mission— cross the Great Wall and. the Great Sandy Desert— arrive at the Russian Frontier—are met by a ..."

3. Key to Pelton's New and Improved Series of Outline Maps: Containing All the by Cale Pelton (1855)
"1 2 Deserts of Asia wild and vast, Great Sandy Desert now is reach'd, The Desert Kizil Koom ... Great Sandy Desert? Seistan Desert ? Great Salt Desert ? ..."

4. A Historical Geography of the British Colonies by Charles Prestwood Lucas (1907)
"... 220 miles east of the frontier, and its northern edge is what maps call a sandy desert, a replica of the Great Sandy Desert in the north, and so dry and ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"The greatest level, or approximately level, area in the Great Basin region of Oregon is the so-called Great Sandy Desert, a tract about 150 m. long and from ..."

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