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Accona Desert
The Accona Desert (Italian: Deserto di Accona) is a semi-arid area in Tuscany, Italy, in the center of the so-called Crete senesi, near the comune of Asciano. It is characterized by calanques and dome-shaped formations locally known as biancane (deriving from Italian , white, due to their light shade).
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Alvord Desert
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Amargosa Desert
The Amargosa Desert is located in western Nevada, United States, along the border with California. It is largely coincident with the geographic Amargosa Valley. The desert lies at an elevation of about , and includes the community of Amargosa Valley, Nevada, (formerly Lathrop Wells), which lies at the southern end of the desert. The Amargosa desert lies between the Funeral Mountains on the west and Yucca Mountain and the Nellis Air Force Range to the east, in Nye County.
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Antarctica
Antarctica
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Aralkum
Aralkum is the name given to the new desert that has appeared on the seabed once occupied by the Aral Sea. It lies to the south and east of what remains of the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
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Atacama Desert
The Atacama Desert is a virtually rainless plateau in South America, covering a strip of land on the Pacific coast of South America, west of the Andes mountains. The Atacama desert is, according to NASA, National Geographic and many other publications, the driest desert in the world, due to the rain shadow on the leeward side of the Chilean Coast Range, as well as a coastal inversion layer created by the cold offshore Humboldt Current. The Atacama occupies in northern Chile, composed mostly of salt basins (salares), sand, and felsic lava flows towards the Andes.
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Bardenas Reales
Bardenas Reales is a semi-desert in Navarre, Spain whose vegetation and rocky formations created by erosion are unique in Europe. It covers 45,500 hectares of terrain, and its most famous sight is the Castildetierra.
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Betpak-Dala
Betpak-Dala is a settlement in Kazakhstan.
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Blue Desert
The Blue Desert is an area of the Sinai Desert approximately 50 miles inland from the Red Sea resort of Dhahab in which a number of rocks are painted blue.
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Błędów Desert
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Channeled Scablands
The Channeled Scablands are a unique geological erosion feature in the U.S. state of Washington. They were created by the cataclysmic Missoula Floods that swept periodically across eastern Washington and down the Columbia River Plateau during the Pleistocene epoch. Geologist J Harlen Bretz coined the term in a series of papers in the 1920s. Debate over the origin of the Scablands raged for four decades and is one of the great debates in the history of earth science.
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Danakil Desert
The Danakil Desert lies in north-eastern Ethiopia, southern Eritrea and much of Djibouti. The homeland of the Afar people, it is known for its heat and for the Afar Depression, lying up to 100 m below sea level. The Danakil Desert's main industry is salt mining, while it is also home to wildlife, including African Wild Asses.
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Darvaza
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Dasht-e Kavir
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Dasht-e Lut
Dasht-e Lut, also spelled Dasht-i-Lut, is a large salt desert in southeastern Iran and is the world's 25th largest desert.
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Deliblatska Peščara
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Farafra, Egypt
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Gibson Desert
The Gibson Desert covers a large dry area in the state of Western Australia and is still largely in an almost "pristine" state. It is about 155,000 square kilometres (60,000 square miles) in size, making it the 5th largest desert in Australia, after the Great Sandy, Great Victoria, Tanami and Simpson deserts.
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Gobi Desert
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Great Sandy Desert
:There is another desert called "Great Sandy Desert" in Oregon, US.
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Greenland
Greenland ( meaning "Land of the Kalaallit people"; ) is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Physiographically, it is a part of the continent of North America. The largest island in Greenland is also named Greenland, and makes up most of the country's land area.
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Hindu Kush
The Hindu Kush is a 500-mile mountain range stretching between north-western Pakistan and eastern and central Afghanistan. The highest point in the Hindu Kush is Tirich Mir (7,708 m or 25,289 ft) in the Chitral region of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan.
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Kalahari Desert
The Kalahari Desert (Dorsland in Afrikaans) is a large arid to semi-arid sandy area in Southern Africa extending , covering much of Botswana and parts of Namibia and South Africa, as semi-desert, with huge tracts of excellent grazing after good rains. The Kalahari Desert is the southern part of Africa, and the geography is a portion of desert and a plateau. The Kalahari supports some animals and plants because most of it is not a true desert. There are small amounts of rainfall and the summer temperature is very high. It usually receives of rain per year. The surrounding Kalahari Basin covers over extending farther into Botswana, Namibia and South Africa, and encroaching into parts of Angola, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The only permanent river, the Okavango, flows into a delta in the northwest, forming marshes that are rich in wildlife. Ancient dry riverbeds—called omuramba—traverse the Central Northern reaches of the Kalahari and provide standing pools of water during the rainy season. Previously havens for wild animals from elephant to giraffe, and for predators such as lion and cheetah, the riverbeds are now mostly grazing spots, though leopard or cheetah can still be found.
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Karakoram
Karakoram (or Karakorum) is a large mountain range spanning the borders between Pakistan, India and China, located in the regions of Gilgit-Baltistan (Pakistan), Ladakh (India), and Xinjiang region, (China). It is one of the Greater Ranges of Asia, a part of the greater Himalaya while north of the actual Himalaya Range.
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Karakorum
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Kumtag Desert
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Lechuguilla Desert
The Lechuguilla Desert is a small desert located in southwestern Arizona near the U.S.-Mexico border. It is considered to be part of the Lower Colorado Valley region of the Sonoran Desert. It lies in a north-south direction between the Gila Mountains and The Cabeza Prieta Mountains, and almost entirely in the Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range. The desert is named after the Lechuguilla plant, known scientifically as Agave lecheguilla.
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Libyan Desert
The Libyan Desert () is located in the northern and eastern part of the Sahara Desert. It occupies Egypt west of the Nile (the Egyptian portion is thus called the Western Desert), eastern Libya and northwestern Sudan alongside the Nubian Desert. Covering an area of approximately 1,100,000 square kilometers, it extends approximately 1100 km from east to west, and 1,000 km from north to south, in about the shape of a rectangle. Like most of the Sahara, this desert is primarily sand and hamada or stony plain.
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Little Sandy Desert
The Little Sandy Desert is a desert located in Western Australia south of the Great Sandy Desert and west of the Gibson Desert. It is thus named because it is relatively close and similar to the Great Sandy Desert, but is much smaller. Its landforms, fauna and flora, etc., are all similar to the Great Sandy Desert. Both deserts are crossed by the Canning Stock Route.
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Lop Desert
The Lop Desert or Lop Nur or Lop Nor, is a desert extending from Korla eastwards along the foot of the Kuruktagh to the formerly terminal Tarim Basin in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China. It is an almost perfectly horizontal expanse. Lake Bosten in the northwest lies at an altitude of 1,030 m to 1,040 m (3,380 to 3,410 ft), while the Lop Nur in the southeast is only 250 m lower.
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Mary, Turkmenistan
Mary (pronounced Mur-ree) is a city of Turkmenistan, capital of the Mary Province. Former names include Merv, Meru and Margiana. In 1999 its population was 123,000 (up from 92,000 in the 1989 census).
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Negev
The Negev (also Negeb; , Tiberian vocalization: , ) is a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel. The Arabs, including the native Bedouin population of the region refer to the desert as al-Naqab (). The origin of the word Negev is from the Hebrew root denoting 'dry'. In the Bible the word Negev is also used for the direction 'south'.
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Norway
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Oleshky Sands
Oleshky Sands () is the largest expanse of sand in Ukraine. It is situated inland from the Ukrainian coast of the Black Sea and consists of sand dunes or kuchuhury (locally), which reach a height of five meters. Some sparse vegetation can be located across the sands.
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Owyhee Desert
The Owyhee Desert is an arid region of canyons, volcanic rock, sagebrush and grass, approximately in area, in northern Nevada, southwestern Idaho and southeastern Oregon in the western United States. It is located on the south edge of the Columbia Plateau southwest of Boise, Idaho, stretching east from the Santa Rosa Range with a mean elevation of approximately . It is primarily drained by the tributaries of the Owyhee and Bruneau Rivers, which in turn flow into the Snake River.
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Patagonian Desert
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Pedirka Desert
The Pedirka Desert is an Australian desert, located about north-west of Oodnadatta and north-east of Coober Pedy in South Australia. Mount Deane and Witjira National Park are just to the north.
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Piscinas
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Qaidam Basin
Qaidam Basin, also spelt Tsaidam (from , salt marsh or wide valley; ) is an hyperarid basin that occupies a large part of the Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province, western China. The basin covers an area of approximately 120,000 km2, one fourth of which is covered by saline lakes and playas.
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Rangipo Desert
Rangipo Desert is a barren desert-like environment in New Zealand, located in the Ruapehu District on the North Island Volcanic Plateau; to the east of the three active peaks of Mount Tongariro, Mount Ngauruhoe, and Mount Ruapehu, and to the west of the Kaimanawa Range.
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Red Desert (Wyoming)
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Richtersveld
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Rub' al Khali
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Russia
Russia (; ), also officially known as the Russian Federation (), is a state in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both via Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, the People's Republic of China, Mongolia, and North Korea. It also has maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the United States by the Bering Strait. At , Russia is the largest country in the world, covering more than a ninth of the Earth's land area. Russia is also the ninth most populous nation with 142 million people. It extends across the whole of northern Asia and 40% of Europe, spanning 9 time zones and incorporating a wide range of environments and landforms. Russia has the world's largest reserves of mineral and energy resources. It has the world's largest forest reserves and its lakes contain approximately one-quarter of the world's fresh water.
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Ryn Desert
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Sahara
The Sahara (, , "The Greatest Desert") is the world's largest hot desert. At over
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Simpson Desert
The Simpson Desert is a large area of dry, red sandy plain and dunes in central Australia.
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Sonoran Desert
The Sonoran Desert is a North American desert which straddles part of the United States-Mexico border and covers large parts of the U.S. states of Arizona and California and the northwest Mexican states of Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur. It is one of the largest and hottest deserts in North America, with an area of . The desert contains a variety of unique plants and animals, such as the saguaro cactus.
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Soviet Union
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Strzelecki Desert
The Strzelecki Desert () is located in the Far North Region of South Australia, southwest Queensland and western New South Wales. It is positioned in the northeast of the Lake Eyre Basin, and north of the Flinders Ranges. Two other deserts occupy the Lake Eyre Basin—the Tirari Desert and the Simpson Desert.
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Sturt Stony Desert
Sturt Stony Desert (previously '''Sturt's Stony Desert''') is an area in the north-east of South Australia, named by Charles Sturt in 1844, whilst trying to reach the exact centre of Australia. The stones caused his horses to limp and wore down the hooves of the cattle and sheep which Sturt had taken on the expedition.
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Taklamakan Desert
For the novelette by Bruce Sterling see Taklamakan (story).
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Tanami Desert
The Tanami Desert is a desert in northern Australia situated in the Northern Territory.
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Tejen
Tejen (or Tedzhen) is an oasis city in the Karakum Desert, in Ahal Province of Turkmenistan. It is located at latitude 37.3786 North; longitude 60.4961 East at an altitude of 161 meters. It has a population of approximately 52,000.
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Tengger Desert
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Tirari Desert
The Tirari Desert is a desert in the eastern part of the Far North region of South Australia.
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Tule Desert (Nevada)
The Tule Desert is located in southeastern Nevada in the United States. The desert is located northeast of the Mormon Mountains in Lincoln County, near the Utah state line.
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Turkmenistan
The Turkmenistan (), also known as Turkmenia () is one of the Turkic states in Central Asia. Until 1991, it was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union, the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic (Turkmen SSR). Turkmenistan is one of the six independent Turkic states. It is bordered by Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the south and southwest, Uzbekistan to the east and northeast, Kazakhstan to the north and northwest and the Caspian Sea to the west.
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Ustyurt Plateau
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White Desert
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Yuha Desert
The Yuha Desert is a section of the Sonoran Desert located in the Imperial Valley of California; south of Interstate 8, west of El Centro, CA, and north of the international border.
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Darvaza, Karakum Desert, Turkmenistan 01 - Gas Crater
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- Duration: 1:01
- Updated: 23 Oct 2012
Some video footage from Ashgabat taken November 2009. Burning gas crater near Darvaza, Turkmenistan in the Karakum desert.
http://wn.com/Darvaza,_Karakum_Desert,_Turkmenistan_01_Gas_Crater
Karakum Desert
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- Duration: 5:01
- Updated: 27 Jul 2012
Footage of Karakum Desert between Konye-Urgench and Ashgabat, including Darvaza Gas Crater and Erbent. More on the trip, including photos, at officechairtraveller.posterous.com
http://wn.com/Karakum_Desert
Darvaza, Karakum Desert, Turkmenistan 02 - Gas Crater
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- Duration: 1:24
- Updated: 17 Oct 2012
Some video footage from Ashgabat taken November 2009. Burning gas crater near Darvaza, Turkmenistan in the Karakum desert.
http://wn.com/Darvaza,_Karakum_Desert,_Turkmenistan_02_Gas_Crater
Door To Hell - KaraKum Desert
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- Duration: 1:47
- Updated: 01 Oct 2012
Located in the Central Asian State of Turkimenistan, Darvaza (or Darvaze as it is locally called), is a 39 year old burning flame. Its story is told here ..
http://wn.com/Door_To_Hell_KaraKum_Desert
Gate of the HELL (karakum desert, Darvaza, TURKMENISTAN)
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- Duration: 1:43
- Updated: 24 Oct 2012
In the heart of the Karakum desert of Turkmenistan the Darvaza Gas Crater or The Burning Gates give off a glow that can be seen from miles away during the dark night
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The Gate to Hell - Darvaza, Turkmenistan
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- Duration: 2:16
- Updated: 28 Oct 2012
A giant crater in the middle of the Karakum desert, known by the local population as the Gate to Hell, the Darvaza crater was created after an accident in the Soviet era while drilling for natural gas. It has been burning ever since.
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Darvazza gas burning crater, Karakum desert, Turkmenistan
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- Duration: 1:00
- Updated: 15 Sep 2012
Darvazza gas burning crater, aka the gates of hell, Karakum desert, Turkmenistan
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WeGo.se - Turkmenistan - Karakum Desert
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- Duration: 2:13
- Updated: 26 Aug 2010
Vi ar i oknen, Turkmenistan
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Darvaza, Karakum Desert, Turkmenistan 03 - Gas Crater
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- Duration: 0:42
- Updated: 15 Apr 2012
Some video footage from Ashgabat taken November 2009. Burning gas crater near Darvaza, Turkmenistan in the Karakum desert.
http://wn.com/Darvaza,_Karakum_Desert,_Turkmenistan_03_Gas_Crater
39yrs Fire In Desert TV9 Special
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- Duration: 3:52
- Updated: 01 Oct 2012
The Karakum Desert, also spelled Kara-Kum and Gara Gum "Black Sand" Turkmen: Garagum, ... This hole has been on fire, continuously, for the last 38 years. ...its a TV9Kannada special Aug 06,2010
http://wn.com/39yrs_Fire_In_Desert_TV9_Special
DARVAZA GAS CRATER IN TURKMENISTAN - DOOR TO HELL
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- Duration: 6:57
- Updated: 30 Oct 2012
Derweze (Turkmen language: The Gate, also known as Darvaza) is a Turkmenistan village of about 350 inhabitants, located in the middle of the Kara-Kum desert, about 260 km north from Ashgabat. Locals have named the cavern The Door to Hell.
http://wn.com/DARVAZA_GAS_CRATER_IN_TURKMENISTAN_DOOR_TO_HELL
Iskelu - Sands Of The Kara Kum
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- Duration: 4:28
- Updated: 15 Oct 2012
From Album : Music Of The Middle East About this Album 'Desert Nation' - a mystical, enigmatic and often thrilling exploration of Middle Eastern beats and rhythms (eg Dash E Lut, Euphrates) combined with some truly EPIC orchestral themes and melodies (eg Sands Of The Kara Kum, Crossing The Aral). Iskelu is a master of this 'ambient world fusion' genre - drifitng back and forth from the traditional to the contemporary, and letting musicality and emotion collide with real global energy!
http://wn.com/Iskelu_Sands_Of_The_Kara_Kum
Turkemenistan, Karakum Desert: Camel Walk
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- Duration: 0:26
- Updated: 20 Aug 2010
http://wn.com/Turkemenistan,_Karakum_Desert_Camel_Walk
CENTRAL ASIAN OVCHARKA TURKMENISTAN - Alabai in the Karakum Desert
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- Duration: 7:24
- Updated: 19 Oct 2012
CENTRAL ASIAN OVCHARKA -- CENTRAL ASIAN SHEPHERD DOG - GUARD DOG - TURKMEN ALABAI - ABORIGINAL ALABAY - PASTORE DELL'ASIA CENTRALE
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AUTENTICO CUCCIOLO DI ALABAI ABORIGENO NEL KARAKUM DESERT - TURKMENISTAN
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- Duration: 0:16
- Updated: 17 Feb 2012
www.pastoredellasiacentrale.it - CAO - CENTRAL ASIAN OVCHARKA -- CENTRAL ASIAN SHEPHERD DOG - GUARD DOG - TURKMEN ALABAI - ABORIGINAL ALABAY
http://wn.com/AUTENTICO_CUCCIOLO_DI_ALABAI_ABORIGENO_NEL_KARAKUM_DESERT_TURKMENISTAN
Turkmenistan's untapped gas wealth
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- Duration: 2:44
- Updated: 06 Aug 2012
Turkmenistan is sitting on one of the largest natural gas fields in the world and the country has the potential to meet energy demands from some of the world's biggest economies. But getting access to the world's fourth largest reserves, estimated at on about 25tn cubic metres, remains a major stumbling block for energy-hungry nations as it decides to do without foreign involvement. Al Jazeera's Robin Forestier-Walker reports from the Karakum desert in the Central Asian country.
http://wn.com/Turkmenistan's_untapped_gas_wealth
The Camel Chasers
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- Duration: 1:29
- Updated: 24 Feb 2012
A run-in with 183 rather social camels in Turkmenistan's Karakum Desert between Gonur Depe and Mary. www.uncorneredmarket.com
http://wn.com/The_Camel_Chasers
La Puerta del Infierno
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- Duration: 1:29
- Updated: 06 Oct 2012
www.jabulela.com of the Caspian Sea in the middle of Karakum desert somewhere in Central Asia hide a secret. It is something so surreal and extraordinary in the same time you thing is not real at all. Here near a small town of Darvaza, Turkmenistan is located The door to hell how locals name the strange place. In fact it is a 50 100 meter crater who burn continues for 35 years without any pause.
http://wn.com/La_Puerta_del_Infierno
Skiing in Turkmenistan Desert, Mongol Rally 2012
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- Duration: 2:28
- Updated: 27 Sep 2012
PM10 doing some ski in Karakum desert, near Derweze, in Turkmenistan.
http://wn.com/Skiing_in_Turkmenistan_Desert,_Mongol_Rally_2012
The Door To Hell
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- Duration: 0:36
- Updated: 24 Oct 2012
The "door to hell" in Darvaza in Turkmenistan. While drilling in 1971, geologists tapped into a cavern filled with natural gas. The ground beneath the drilling rig collapsed, leaving a large hole with a diameter of about 70 metres. To avoid poisonous gas discharge, it was decided to be burned off. Geologists had hoped the fire would use all the fuel in a matter of days, but the gas still burns 40 years later. Locals have dubbed the cavern "The Door to Hell."
http://wn.com/The_Door_To_Hell
Iskelu - Crossing The Aral
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- Duration: 6:16
- Updated: 24 Aug 2012
From Album : Music Of The Middle East About this Album 'Desert Nation' - a mystical, enigmatic and often thrilling exploration of Middle Eastern beats and rhythms (eg Dash E Lut, Euphrates) combined with some truly EPIC orchestral themes and melodies (eg Sands Of The Kara Kum, Crossing The Aral). Iskelu is a master of this 'ambient world fusion' genre - drifitng back and forth from the traditional to the contemporary, and letting musicality and emotion collide with real global energy!
http://wn.com/Iskelu_Crossing_The_Aral
The door to Hell
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- Duration: 2:52
- Updated: 26 Oct 2012
www.jabulela.com East of the Caspian Sea in the middle of Karakum desert somewhere in Central Asia hide a secret. It is something so surreal and extraordinary in the same time you thing is not real at all. Here near a small town of Darvaza, Turkmenistan is located The door to hell how locals name the strange place. In fact it is a 50 100 meter crater who burn continues for 35 years without any pause.
http://wn.com/The_door_to_Hell
Photo: AP / Themba Hadebe
29 Oct 2012
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. Yesterday while protesting with striking mine workers in South Africa, Mohandas Gandhi was gunned down by heavily armed security forces. Gandhi, who...
Photo: AP / John Minchillo
30 Oct 2012
At least 13 people have been killed in the US and millions are without power after Superstorm Sandy slammed into the New Jersey coastline and hurled a record-breaking 13ft surge of seawater at New...
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29 Oct 2012
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For the desert in Kazakhstan, see Aral Karakum.
The Karakum Desert, also spelled Kara-Kum and Gara Gum (“Black Sand”) (Turkmen: Garagum, Russian: Каракумы) is a desert in Central Asia. It occupies about 70 percent, or 350,000 km², of the area of Turkmenistan.[1]
The population is sparse, with an average of one person per 6.5 km² (one person per 2.5 square miles). Rainfall is equally sparse, where precipitation comes maybe once a decade in some areas.
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Location[link]
Covering much of present day Turkmenistan, the Karakum Desert lies east of the Caspian Sea, with the Aral Sea to the north and the Amu Darya river and the Kyzyl Kum desert to the northeast. In modern times, with the shrinking of the Aral Sea, the extended "Aral Karakum" has appeared on the former seabed, with an estimated area of 15,440 sq mi/40,000 km². Although the level of the Aral Sea has fluctuated over its existence, the most recent level drop was caused by the former Soviet Union building massive irrigation projects in the region. Although the North Aral Sea is currently rising, the South Aral Sea is still dropping, thus expanding the size of the desert.[2]
The sands of the Aral Karakum are made up of a salt-marsh consisting of finely-dispersed evaporites and remnants of alkaline mineral deposits, washed into the basin from irrigated fields. The dusts blown on a powerful east-west airstream carry pesticide residues that have been found in the blood of penguins in Antarctica. Aral dust has also been found in the glaciers of Greenland, the forests of Norway, and the fields of Russia.
Hydrography[link]
To the south the Murghab and Tejen rivers flow out of the Hindu Kush Mountains, flow west, and empty into the vangeli.
The desert is crossed by the second largest irrigation canal in the world, the Kara Kum Canal. The canal was started in 1954, is 1,375 km in length, and carries 13-20 km³ of water annually. Unfortunately, leakages from the canal have created lakes and ponds along the canal and the rise in groundwater has caused widespread soil salination...
Archaeology[link]
Within the Karakum are the Bolshoi (Big) Balkan, a mountain range in which archaeologists have found human remains dating back to the Stone Age.
Economy and resources[link]
The oases of Mary and Tejen are noted for cotton growing.
Geology[link]
The Karakum Desert is home to the Darvaza Gas Craters 40°15′08.40″N 58°26′23.10″E / 40.252333°N 58.43975°E / 40.252333; 58.43975
The area has significant oil and natural gas deposits.
Transport[link]
The desert is crossed by the Trans-Caspian railway.
Notes[link]
- ^ "Karakum Desert -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia". www.britannica.com. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9110529/Karakum-Desert. Retrieved 2008-02-22.
- ^ Aral Sea
See also[link]
External links[link]
- TravelBlog Darwasa Craters: Entrance to Hell
- Gonur Depe site in the Karakum Desert
- photos and about the Karakum Desert
Coordinates: 40°30′N 60°00′E / 40.5°N 60°E / 40.5; 60
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