Sandwiched between the Great Sandy and Great Victoria deserts, the Gibson Desert's grassy, red sandhills and salt lakes are a nature reserve and support red kangaroos, bilbys and emus as well as hoards of water birds at Lake Disappointment, so named because it contains only salt water and was useless for explorers to drink from.

Some of the last indigenous tribes also have their homes in the Gibson Desert and still practice their cultural traditions using knowledge of the local environment developed over 50,000 years.

Written by  larapiegeler.

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Where si the best place to get a rainfall chart of Australia's Deserts?

Please tell me the best place to get a rainfall chart.

 

Question posted 21st March 2009 by Brianna.

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see http://www.worldreviewer.com/travel-guides/desert/great-sandy-desert/10402/weather/

 

Reply posted 24th March 2009 by jonty.

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