Tanami Desert
The Tanami Desert is a desert in northern Australia. It has a rocky terrain with small hills. The Tanami Desert is one of the most isolated and arid places on Earth. 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]
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
Local groups
The Tanami Desert is Kukatja and Walbiri country.
References
- ^ Environment Australia. "Revision of the Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) and Development of Version 5.1 - Summary Report". Department of the Environment and Water Resources, Australian Government. Retrieved on 2007-01-31.
- ^ IBRA Version 6.1 data
- 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
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
External link
- http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/publications/series/paper4/tan.html Australian government paper on environmental conditions.
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