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Naming concept: sandbox => sand => desert
Release names assigned from the following list of deserts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deserts
Enough names for 60+ releases...then we'll start
assigning names of cactus species, of which there
are 1000's
Africa
0.0.1 Tatti Desert – part of the Sahara located in Algeria
0.0.2 Blue Desert – a desert in Egypt
0.0.3 Kalahari Desert – a desert covering much of Botswana and parts of Namibia and South Africa
0.1.0 Karoo – a semi-desert region in South Africa
0.1.1 Libyan Desert – part of the Sahara located in Libya
0.1.2 Namib Desert – a desert in present day Namibia
0.2.0 Nubian Desert – a desert in present day Sudan
0.2.1 Owami Desert – a desert in Nigeria
0.5.0 Sahara Desert – the world's largest hot desert covering most of Northern Africa,
Asia
0.5.1 Cholistan – a desert in Pakistan
0.6.0 Dashti Margo – a desert in SW Afghanistan
Gobi – a desert in Mongolia and China
Indus Valley Desert – a desert located in Pakistan
Kara Kum – a large Central Asian desert
Kharan desert – a desert located in Pakistan
Kyzyl Kum – a desert in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
Lop Desert – a desert in China
Ordos – a desert in northern China
Rub' al Khali – a desert located in Saudi Arabia
Taklamakan – a desert located in China
Thal Desert – a desert in Pakistan
Thar Desert – a desert in Pakistan and India
Arabian Desert – a vast desert complex on the Arabian Peninsula comprising the Al-Dahna Desert, Empty Quarter, Nefud Desert and other deserts
Dasht-e Kavir – a desert in central Iran
Dasht-e Lut – a large salt desert in southeastern Iran
Judaean Desert – a desert in eastern Israel and the West Bank
Maranjab Desert – a desert in central Iran
Negev – a desert located in southern Israel
Ramlat al-Sab`atayn – a sandy desert in central & northeastern Yemen, part of the Empty Quarter
Sinai Peninsula – a desert located on the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt
Wahiba Sands – a desert in Oman
Europe
Accona Desert – a semi-desert in central Italy
Bardenas Reales – a semi-desert in Navarre, Spain (455 km²)
Błędowska Desert – a desert located in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland (32 km²)
Deliblatska Peščara – a desert located in Vojvodina, Serbia (300 km²)
Highlands of Iceland – the interior plateau of Iceland; not a desert by climate, but effectively one because precipitation penetrates the volcanic soil so quickly that the land is infertile
Monegros Desert – a semi-desert in Aragón, Spain
Oleshky Sands – a desert located in Ukraine near Askania-Nova biosphere reserve (15 km in diameter)
Oltenian Sahara – a desert spanning approximately 80,000 hectares or 800 km² in the Romanian historical province of Oltenia[1]
Stranja Sahara - a desert in southeastern Bulgaria near the city of Burgas. It is about 80,000 hectares, sometimes estimated to about 850 km². It is near the borders of Turkey and northwestern Greece[2]
Tabernas Desert – a desert in Almería, Spain (280 km²)
North America
Black Rock Desert
Central Valley of California (which is divided into the Sacramento Valley in the north, and the San Joaquin Valley in the south) – this area has largely been transformed, due to irrigation canals, to an agricultural area. It is technically a semi-arid climate
Chihuahuan Desert
Colorado Desert
Mojave Desert
Pumice Desert, the remains of an ash flow from the big eruption of Mount Mazama[3]
Sonoran Desert
South America
Atacama – a desert in Chile and Peru, the driest place on Earth
La Guajira Desert – a desert in northern Colombia and Venezuela
Monte Desert – in Argentina, a smaller desert above the Patagonian Desert
Patagonian Desert – the largest desert in the Americas, located in Argentina and Chile
Sechura Desert – a desert located south of the Piura Region of Peru
Australia
Central Desert – a central Australian desert
Gibson Desert – a central Australian desert
Great Sandy Desert – a northwestern Australian desert
Great Victoria Desert – the biggest desert in Australia
Little Sandy Desert – a western Australian desert
Simpson Desert – a central Australian desert
Strzelecki Desert – a south-central Australian desert
Tanami Desert – a northern Australian desert
Zealandia
Rangipo Desert – a barren desert-like plateau (with 1.5-2.5 m/yr rainfall) on the North Island Volcanic Plateau in New Zealand
Polar regions
Antarctica Desert – the largest desert in the world[4]
Arctic Desert – the second largest desert in the world
Greenland – a large tundra which is also the world's largest island
North American Arctic – a large tundra in North America
Russian Arctic – a large tundra in Russia
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