sicence proj
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• The Great Victoria Desert is the largest desert in Australian and it is also the 3rd largest desert in the world. After the Sharer and the Arabian desert .
• The Great Victoria Desert is 700km/ 435miles from west to east with the western part belonging to western Australia.
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• The Great Victoria Desert in Australian was first crossed by the European explorer Ernest Giles in 1875 and he named it after queen Victoria.
• David Lindsey's expedition crossed the area from north to south in 1891 and there were 3 more explored to cross that desert to.
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• The Great Victoria Desert receives only little rain, though not as little as one might suspect for a desert.
• The rainfall range is 200-250mm a year, the rain is unreliable.
• The summer are hot, anything between. 20 and 40c (90-105f).
• Winter temperatures range from a comfortable 20 to 25c, nights can be freezing.
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• The amount of vegetation may surprise you.
• Australia has always been a dry continent, and the plants are well adapted to living with very little water you will find a huge variety of shrubs and smaller plants when it does rain the transformation is total the dessert bursts in to bloom seemingly over night.
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