This is the Nullarbor Plain. The name comes from two Latin terms null and arbor, meaning "no tree".
The Nullarbor Plain.
The Nullabor Plain.
The Nullarbor Plain in Australia does not separate any states. It spans across the southern part of western South Australia and eastern Western Australia.
The only part of Western Australia where wombats occur is a small section just over the South Australian border on the Nullabor Plain.
The Nullarbor Plain is an arid, limestone region extending for some 270,000 square km above the Great Australian Bight, primarily in South Australia and also reaching into Western Australia.
The tiny town of Cook (population: 4) on the Nullarbor Plain is halfway between Adelaide, South Australia and Kalgoorlie, Western Australia.
There are many deserts in Australia, not just one.The three largest deserts in Australia are:Great Victoria Desert (Western Australia): 424,400 km2Great Sandy Desert (Western Australia): 284,993 km2Tanami Desert (Western Australia and Northern Territory): 184,500 km2Each of these deserts is either in or primarily in Western Australia, in the western third of the continent.The Nullarbor Plain is an arid, limestone region extending for some 270,000 square km above the Great Australian Bight. Nothing is cultivated there, and in many respects its aridness places it within the category of desert, but there is little (if any) sand there.Other deserts include -Simpson Desert (Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia): 176,500 km2Gibson Desert (Western Australia): 156,000 km2Little Sandy Desert (Western Australia): 111,500 km2Strzelecki Desert (New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia): 80,250 km2Sturt Stony Desert (South Australia): 29,750 km2Tirari Desert (South Australia): 15,250 km2Pedirka Desert (South Australia): 1,250 km2
The Great Bight Abyssal Plain
The Nullarbor Plain is in Australia. It is a large, flat, treeless desert in the south of the continent, which parallels the Great Australia Bight.
The Nullarbor Plain lies south of the Australian desert areas and north of the Great Australia Bight, where the Southern Ocean meets Australia's coast.
The Nullarbor Plain is a vast, almost treeless semi-arid plain in Australia's south, just north of the Great Australian Bight.The word "Nullarbor" is from two Latin words (nullus arbor) literally meaning "no tree" (Null, from nullus = nothing, arbor = tree).
There are a dozen or more deserts in Australia, ranging in size from hundreds of thousands of square kilometre to just thousands of square kilometres. Basically, the deserts extend right through central Australia, to parts of the western coast, and south through the Nullarbor Plain to the Great Australian Bight. There are no deserts along the eastern coast.