How do people earn their livelihood in The Great Victoria desert?
Answers
Answer:
Borders
List
Central Ranges xeric scrub
Coolgardie woodlands
Eyre and Yorke mallee
Great Sandy-Tanami desert
Gibson Desert
Nullarbor Plains xeric shrublands
Tirari-Sturt stony desert
Western Australian mulga shrublands
Geography
Area
422,466 km2 (163,115 sq mi)
Country
Australia
States
South Australia and Western Australia
Conservation
Conservation status
Relatively stable/intact
Protected
129,367 km² (31%)[1]
The Great Victoria is the largest desert in Australia,[2] and consists of many small sandhills, grassland plains, areas with a closely packed surface of pebbles (called desert pavement or gibber plains), and salt lakes. It is over 700 km (430 mi) wide (from west to east) and covers an area of 348,750 km2 (134,650 sq mi) from the Eastern Goldfields region of Western Australia to the Gawler Ranges in South Australia. The Western Australian mulga shrublands ecoregion lies to the west, the Little Sandy Desert to the northwest, the Gibson Desert and the Central Ranges xeric shrublands to the north, the Tirari-Sturt stony desert to the east, and the Nullarbor Plain to the south separates it from the Southern Ocean. Average annual rainfall is low and irregular, ranging from 200 to 250 mm (7.9 to 9.8 in) per year. Thunderstorms are relatively common in the Great Victoria Desert, with an average of 15–20 thunderstorms yearly. Summer daytime temperatures range from 32 to 40 °C (90 to 104 °F), while in winter, this falls to 18 to 23 °C (64 to 73 °F).