Great Sand Sea
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The Great Sand Sea is an approximately Template:Cvt sand desert (erg) in the Sahara that stretches from western Egypt to eastern Libya, in North Africa. Most of the area is covered by sand dunes.[1]
Geography
The Great Sand Sea stretches about Template:Cvt from north to south and Template:Cvt from east to west. On satellite images, this desert shows a pattern of long sand ridges running in a roughly north-south direction. However, despite the apparent uniformity, the Great Sand Sea has two large areas with different types of megadunes.[1] The Egyptian sand sea lies parallel to the Calanshio Sand Sea of Libya, with which it is contiguous in the north. The dunes of the Great Sand Sea cover about 10% of the total area of the Egyptian Western Desert.
Siwa is an oasis located in Egypt, about Template:Cvt east of the Libyan border, in the eastern part of the Great Sand Sea or Egyptian Sand Sea.
Although well-known to the Tuareg and traders who traveled with caravans across the Sahara, Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs was the first European to document the Great Sand Sea. He began his Saharan expeditions in 1865, and named the great expanse of dunes the Große Sandmeer (Great Sand Sea), but it was not until 1924 with the maps of Egyptian courtier Ahmed Hassanein that the full scope of the Great Sand Sea was appreciated by Europeans.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
In popular culture
- In the 2017 Ubisoft game Assassin's Creed Origins, the Great Sand Sea is featured as one of the nomes, or regions.
See also
References
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- ↑ a b Besler, Helga (2008) The Great Sand Sea in Egypt: Formation, Dynamics and Environmental Change: A Sediment-Analytical Approach Elsevier, Amsterdam, page 1 - 3, Template:ISBN
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External links
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- Egypt Travel - The Great Sand Sea
- Desert Geomorphology
- The Great Sand Sea - Rough Guides Template:Webarchive
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