Victoria Desert
Britishnoun
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In early 1957, Edie Millpuddie and her family were traversing the Great Victoria Desert plains.
From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2018
This took them to Tjuntjuntjara, a tiny community in Western Australia's Great Victoria Desert, roughly halfway between Adelaide and Perth.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 25, 2012
So did the mansion in Kirribilli, the ranch down in Canberra, the whistle-stop pub on the Indian Pacific line somewhere out in the Great Victoria Desert.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It was known now that the swarm of monsters had originated in the Great Victoria Desert, one of the worst stretches of desolation in the world, situated in the south-east corner of Western Australia.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 by Bates, Harry
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