No Canadians were involved in exploring The Great Sandy Desert to any significant degree at any time in the last 200 years.
The Gibson Desert is located between the Great Sandy Desert and the Great Victoria Desert.
Arabian Desert Antarctic Desert Atacama Desert
The Great Sandy Desert lies north of the Great Victoria Desert.
There are "Great" deserts in:Australia - Great Victoria Desert, Great Sandy DesertIndia - Great Indian Desert (also called the Thar Desert)United States - The Great Basin Desert
The Great Basin Desert is a Cold Desert.
The Great Basin Desert is a Cold Desert.
Germany
There is no great desert in Europe.
The Thar Desert is also known as the Great Indian Desert.
The Gibson Desert lies between the Great Sandy Desert and the Great Victoria Desert in Australia.
Great Australian Desert is a generic term referring to all the deserts of Australia and the Great Sandy Desert is part of that.
Great Britain was one of the nations that was most directly involved in WW I, and Canada had close cultural and political ties to Britain, and therefore was inevitably involved in any conflict that involved Britain. And since Canada was involved, Canadian men were interested.