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Gibson Desert topographic map

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Gibson Desert

The Gibson Desert is located between the saline Kumpupintil Lake and Lake Macdonald along the Tropic of Capricorn, south of the Great Sandy Desert, east of the Little Sandy Desert, and north of the Great Victoria Desert. The altitude rises to just above 500 metres (1,600 ft) in places. As noted by early Australian explorers such as Ernest Giles large portions of the desert are characterized by gravel-covered terrains covered in thin desert grasses and it also contains extensive areas of undulating red sand plains and dunefields, low rocky/gravelly ridges and substantial upland portions with a high degree of laterite formation. The sandy soil of the lateritic buckshot plains is rich in iron. Several isolated salt-water lakes occur in the centre of the region and to the southwest a system of small lakes follow paleo-drainage features. Groundwater sources include portions of the Officer Basin and Canning Basin.

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Name: Gibson Desert topographic map, elevation, terrain.

Location: Gibson Desert, Gibson Desert South, Shire Of Ngaanyatjarraku, Western Australia, Australia (-25.03005 125.49995 -25.02995 125.50005)

Average elevation: 464 m

Minimum elevation: 452 m

Maximum elevation: 486 m

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