Desert
Simpson Desert
- Surface area
- 176,500 km²
- Measurement held by Wikidata (CC0), converted to the atlas unit. Where Wikidata carries several values that differ by more than 2%, the atlas shows none rather than picking one.
- Elevation
- 288 m
- Measurement held by Wikidata (CC0), converted to the atlas unit. Where Wikidata carries several values that differ by more than 2%, the atlas shows none rather than picking one.
- Named after
- Alfred Allen Simpson
- Measurement held by Wikidata (CC0), converted to the atlas unit. Where Wikidata carries several values that differ by more than 2%, the atlas shows none rather than picking one.
- Countries
- Australia
- Share of the Natural Earth outline that lies within each country. Natural Earth outlines of mountain ranges and regions are label areas, not exact limits; provinces are therefore not listed.
- Wikidata
- Q211839
Among the world's deserts
Each line is every one of the deserts in this atlas that carries the measurement, ordered smallest to largest. The line down the middle is the median; the mark on each line is this one. Deserts are not ranked against lakes — the comparison is always within the same kind.
- Surface area176,500 km²21st of 34 · median 192,500 km²
- Elevation288 m19th of 21 · median 500 m