List of deserts in Australia and Oceania

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This is a non-exhaustive list of deserts in Australia and Oceania .

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Surname image place Type Area (km²)
Australian deserts Kata Tjuta Australia.jpg Australia Sand desert 1,371,000
Gibson Desert Gibson Desert and moon from Alfred & Marie Range.jpg Australia , state of Western Australia 156,300
Great sandy desert Kingscanyondomes.jpg Northwest of Australia 267,250
Great Victoria Desert Serpentine Lakes.JPG South and West of Australia ( South Australia and Western Australia ) 348,750
Kaʻū desert Kau desert.jpg East side of Kīlauea crater, district of Kaʻū, the southernmost district on the Big Island of Hawaii
Small sand desert LittleSandyDesert CanningStockRoute.jpg Australia, state of Western Australia Sand desert 111,500
Nullarbor Plain Nullabor Plain With Trees.jpg southern Australia at the Great Australian Bay Karst desert 77,000
Painted Desert Arkaringa.jpg 73 kilometers southwest of Oodnadatta in the Australian state of South Australia
Pedirka desert between Simpson Desert and Great Victoria Desert 1,250
Rangipo Desert Rangipo.jpg North Island of New Zealand
Red Center Red Center.JPG Outback of the Northern Territory Semi-desert approx. 1,000,000
Simpson Desert BigRed.JPG mostly in the Northern Territory Sand desert 176,500
Strzelecki desert Birdsville Overhead.jpg mostly in South Australia 80,250
Sturt's stony desert Gibber plains SNP.JPG Australia in the states of South Australia and, to a lesser extent, also in Queensland 29,750
Tanami desert TanamiTrack.jpg Australia, mostly to the state of the Northern Territory 184,500
Tirari Desert Tirari Desert - NASA-satellite 2006.jpg Australia, northeast of South Australia 15,250