Plates Boundaries. At the locations where two tectonic plates interact, a boundary between these plates exist. There are three types of boundaries that geologist observe. These boundaries are divergent boundaries, convergent boundaries, and transform boundaries.
Great Sandy Desert (Western Australia): 284,993 km2 (110,036 square miles). Tanami Desert (Western Australia and Northern Territory): 184,500 km2 (71,235 square miles). Each of these deserts is either in or primarily in Western Australia, in the western third of the continent.
Deserts cover about one fifth of the Earthâs surface and occur where rainfall is less than 50 cm/year. Although most deserts, such as the Sahara of North Africa and the deserts of the southwestern U.S., Mexico, and Australia, occur at low latitudes, another kind of desert, cold deserts, occur in the basin and range area of Utah and Nevada and in parts of western Asia.