Great Australian Desert

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Great Australian Desert - general name given to all desert areas in Australia

Australian Desert

outback - the bush country of the interior of Australia

Never-Never - the remote outback of Australia; unpopulated desert country

Gibson Desert - a desert area in western Australia

Great Sandy Desert - a desert region in northwestern Australia to the north of the Gibson Desert

Great Victoria Desert - a desert region in south central Australia to the north of the Nullarbor Plain

Australia - the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean

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Camels were introduced into Australia during the exploration days of the great Australian desert. Like the Australian donkey, they eventually became feral animals and proliferated.

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But then trying to navigate your way around the wastes of Redditch is more or less the modern day equivalent of a camel ride across the Great Australian Desert.

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No single retrospective could display the work of Gormley as effectively as these photographs of sculptures sited in Charleston, South Carolina; Death Valley; Dublin; the Great Australian Desert; and Norway; nor would it be easy to grasp the references by the sculptor.