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This is a list of the largest deserts in the world by area. It includes all deserts above 50,000 km2 (19,300 sq mi).
Antarctica, the southernmost continent and site of the South Pole, is a virtually uninhabited, ice-covered landmass. Most cruises to the continent visit the Antarctic Peninsula, which stretches toward South America. It’s known for the Lemaire Channel and Paradise Harbor, striking, iceberg-flanked passageways, and Port Lockroy, a former British research station turned museum. The peninsula’s isolated terrain also shelters rich wildlife, including many penguins.
Antarctica also is the windiest continent and home to one of the driest places on Earth - the McMurdo Dry valleys.
The Arctic is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth.The Arctic region is a unique area among Earth's ecosystems. The cultures in the region and the Arctic indigenous peoples have adapted to its cold and extreme conditions. Life in the Arctic includes zooplankton and phytoplankton, fish and marine mammals, birds, land animals, plants and human societies.[3] Arctic land is bordered by the subarctic.
The Sahara is a desert spanning across North Africa. With an area of 9,200,000 square kilometres, it is the largest hot desert in the world and the third-largest desert overall, smaller only than the deserts of Antarctica and the northern Arctic.
The deserts of Australia or the Australian deserts cover about 2,700,000 km2 (1,000,000 sq mi), or 18% of the Australian mainland, but about 35% of the Australian continent receives so little rain, it is practically desert.[1] Collectively known as the Great Australian desert.
The fifth-largest desert in the world and the largest in Asia is the Arabian Desert. It’s located on the Arabian Peninsula and covers regions in seven different countries. The southern third of the Arabian Peninsula is mostly covered by the Ar-Rub’ al-Khali, which translates to “The Empty Quarter” in English; it is the center of the Arabian Desert as well as one of the largest contiguous bodies of sand in the world.
The Gobi Desert is number six on this list of the largest deserts in the world. It is located in Asia and covers parts of China and Mongolia. The desert gets its name from the Mongolian word Gobi, which translates to “waterless place” in English. The desert is located on a peninsula and consists mostly of exposed bare rock. This makes it possible to drive over most of the desert easily with a vehicle.
Most of the plant life in the Gobi Desert consists of small shrubs that have been adapted to droughts and low grasses. A variety of animals live in the desert, such as gazelles, polecats, camels, and at least thirty different species of lizards.
Climate conditions are causing the northern and eastern boundaries of the Gobi Desert to change constantly, and the desert is expanding to the south through desertification.
The Kalahari is a large desert that stretches through three countries in Southern Africa, covering a great portion of Botswana. The desert’s name comes from the Tswana word Kgalagadi, which translates to “waterless place” in English.
Interestingly, the northern reaches of the Kalahari Desert receive significantly more rainfall than usually qualifies an area as a desert. However, the deep sands in this region cause rainfall to drain almost instantly, resulting in an absolute absence of surface water. The southwestern region of the Kalahari Desert fits with the more traditional criteria of a desert.
Animals that call the Kalahari Desert home include migratory birds and large predators like lions, cheetahs, leopards, and African wild dogs. There are also some seasonal wetlands in the Kalahari, such as the Makgadikgadi Pans, which are visited by thousands of flamingos.
The eighth-largest desert in the world and the largest in Argentina is the Patagonian Desert, also referred to as the Patagonian Steppe. This desert occupies most of Argentina’s southern third and is bordered by the Andes to the west and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. The desert is now used by Argentina mostly for raising livestock, though it was previously inhabited by indigenous hunter-gatherer people.
The Syrian Desert spans the majority of both Syria and Jordan as well as portions of Saudi Arabia and Iraq.
The Great Basin Desert is situated in the Western United States, covering large sections of Utah and Nevada.
The isolation of animal groups in the Great Basin makes them more susceptible to extinction. Some of the forces causing extinction in the desert include livestock grazing, mining, construction, and the pumping of groundwater. The least tern and the Utah prairie dog are two animals in the desert that are threatened or endangered.
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