Collectively known as the Great Australian desert, they are primarily distributed throughout the Western Plateau and interior lowlands of the country, covering areas from South West Queensland, Far West region of New South Wales, Sunraysia in Victoria and Spencer Gulf in South Australia to the Barkly Tableland in Northern Territory and the Kimberley region in Western Australia.
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The Australian desert has the largest population of feral camels in the world.
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For example, important tribes living in the Australian desert areas include the Arrernte, Luritja and Pitjantjatjara.
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The Aborigines of the Australian desert produced many important artists, one of the first and most famous being Albert Namatjira, who was born in Hermannsburg in the Great Sandy Desert.
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Australian desert owed his survival to Charley, an Aboriginal tracker.
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Australian desert only assigned the name on his second expedition to this desert region, which ended in 1900.
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Large contiguous Australian desert area is formed by the Tanami, Greater Sands, Lesser Sands, Gibson and Greater Victoria Sands in western Australia and a smaller one by the Simpson, Sturt, Strzelecki and Tirari Deserts in the east.
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The Australian desert proper is uninhabitable and the environment remains unmarred, while the greener fringe is used for sheep grazing.
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Spinifex or hummock semi-Australian desert grows spiny- headed grasses in clumps, next to free areas as green Triodia pungens and blue-grey Triodia basedowii.
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The Australian desert areas covered by mulga are threatened by deforestation, extensive livestock farming and fuel wood production.
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Animals in the Australian desert include feral camels, dingoes, goannas and numerous species of lizards and birds.
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Over 200 species of birds live in the Australian desert areas, including emus, ratites, parrots, cockatoos, owls and raptors.
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The Australian desert includes many types of lizards, including the vulnerable great Australian desert skink, the Central Ranges taipan, and a number of small marsupials, including the endangered sandhill dunnart and the crest-tailed mulgara.
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One way to survive here is to burrow into the sands, as a number of the Australian desert's animals, including the southern marsupial mole, and the water-holding frog do.
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Predators of the Australian desert include the dingo and two large monitor lizards, the perentie and the sand goanna.
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The Australian feral camel affects native vegetation, partly because Australian desert vegetation evolved without any major herbivores present.
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Average annual rainfall in the Australian desert is low, ranging from 81 to as much as 250 mm, which would make it a semi-arid climate.
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The northwestern region of the Australian desert is one which gives rise to the heat lows which help drive the NW monsoon.
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Indigenous Australians in the desert regions include the Kogara, the Mirning and the Pitjantjatjara.
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Aboriginal languages with the most speakers today in the Australian desert include Upper Arrernte, Walmajarri, Warlpiri, and the Western Desert languages within the Western Desert cultural bloc, such as the Wati languages, the Panyjima language, Wangkatha, Noongar language, the Yankunytjatjara dialect and the Pitjantjatjara dialect.
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