A leading proponent of the Great Game, Disraeli introduced the Royal Titles Act 1876, which created Queen Victoria Empress of India, putting her at the same level as the Russian Tsar.

The IBRA regions, with Great Victoria Desert in red

NASA-Visible Earth, the Great Victoria Desert is in the center of the image, north of the Nullarbor Plain.

The Great Victoria is the largest desert in Australia and consists of many small sandhills, grassland plains, areas with a closely packed surface of pebbles ( called desert pavement or gibber plains ) and salt lakes.

Thunderstorms are relatively common in the Great Victoria Desert, with an average of 15 – 20 thunderstorms per annum.

Young Indigenous adults from the Great Victoria Desert region work in the Wilurarra Creative programs to maintain and develop their culture.

Despite its isolated location the Great Victoria is bisected by very rough tracks including the Connie Sue Highway and the Anne Beadell Highway.

The Great Victoria desert is a World Wildlife Fund ecoregion and an Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia ( IBRA ) region of the same name.

Habitat is also preserved in the large Aboriginal local government area of Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara in South Australia and in the Great Victoria Desert Nature Reserve of Western Australia.

*; Online natural history of Great Victoria Desert

*; Maps of Great Victoria Desert

Conditions were harsh as these goldfields were centered in the Great Victoria Desert and Hoover described the region as a land of " black flies, red dust, and white heat.

It is bordered to the west by: Western Australia, to the north by the Northern Territory, to the north-east by Queensland, to the east by New South Wales, to the south-east by Victoria, and to the south by the Great Australian Bight and the Indian Ocean.

A portrayal entitled The Taking of the Children on the 1999 Great Australian Clock, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, by artist Chris Cook.

* The Great McGonagall ( 1974 ), untalented Scottish poet ( based on William Topaz McGonagall ) angles to become laureate, with Peter Sellers as Queen Victoria.

To the north and west are the Great Lakes of respectively Lake Victoria ( Africa's largest lake ) and Lake Tanganyika ( the continent's deepest lake, known for its unique species of fish ) – and to the southwest lies Lake Nyasa.

A part of the Great Lakes region, namely the western shore of Lake Victoria consisted of many small kingdoms, most notably Karagwe and Buzinza, which were dominated by their more powerful neighbors Rwanda, Burundi, and Buganda.

The emergence of photography, showcased at the Great Exhibition, resulted in significant changes in Victorian art with Queen Victoria being the first British monarch to be photographed.

* Queen Victoria ( United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland )

* Queen Victoria ( United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland )

* February 10 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland marries her cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

* Queen Victoria ( United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland )

* Queen Victoria ( United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland )

* Queen Victoria, ( United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland )

The largest of these level areas, the Great Karoo, is a dry, barren region, and a large tract of the plateau proper is of a still more arid character and is known as the Kalahari Desert.

* Sierra Nevada creating the Great Basin Desert and northern Mojave Desert

Areas south of the Great Basin are located within the Mojave Desert, while Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada mountains lie on the western edge.

The Namibian landscape consists generally of five geographical areas, each with characteristic abiotic conditions and vegetation with some variation within and overlap between them: the Central Plateau, the Namib Desert, the Great Escarpment, the Bushveld, and the Kalahari Desert.

For example, a complex statement by Richard Whately includes four puns: " Why can a man never starve in the Great Desert?

The device was detonated at 8. 05 a. m. in a shaft 107 m under the army Pokhran test range in the Thar Desert ( or Great Indian Desert ), Rajasthan.

The Thar Desert (, Hindi: थर मर ु स ् थल, ) also known as the Great Indian Desert ) is a large, arid region in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent and forms a natural boundary running along the border between India and Pakistan.

The Great Wall is extended out into the Gobi Desert, and sections of the wall are detached with signalling towers.

* Anthony the Great, Christian saint and Desert Father

The railroads ' sales of land-grant lots, and the transport provided for timber and crops, led to the rapid settling of the supposed " Great American Desert ".

The route did not pass through the two biggest cities in the Great American Desert — Denver, Colorado, and Salt Lake City, Utah.

Missouri's advantages included that it had the only railroad to actually reach the Missouri River on its western border ( H & SJ ), was more centrally located for lines coming up from Texas and could offer a route servicing Denver, Colorado, the biggest city in the Great American Desert.

Great stress is placed on the role that the monitoring of information sending plays in maintaining the effectiveness of the network.

He is a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, a registered professional engineer in Connecticut and Ohio, and a chartered electrical engineer in Great Britain.

Here is truly a `` Great Recording of the Century '', and its greatness is by no means diminished by the fact that it is not quite perfect.

The Great Smoky Mountains is another area of the South well worth a visit.

So it is with Great Expectations, whether the hands be Orlick's as he strikes down Mrs. Gargery or Pip's as he steals a pie from her pantry.

Since they commonly translate thoughts and feelings into deeds, hands naturally represent action, and since nearly half the characters in Great Expectations are of the underworld or closely allied to it, the linking of hands with crime or violence is not to be wondered at.

But only in one of its aspects is Great Expectations a tale of violence, revenge, and retribution.

I am selling the stuff of which is made one of the Great American Dreams -- wall-to-wall carpeting.

As the bergs grew larger, Hudson was forced to turn south into what is now Ungava Bay, an inlet of the Great Strait.

The Great Train Robbery is a one-reel film.

The `` chase '' as a standard film device probably dates from The Great Train Robbery, and there is a reason for the continued popularity of the device.

Aristotle's influence over Alexander the Great is seen in the latter's bringing with him on his expedition a host of zoologists, botanists, and researchers.

In Korea, the Hangul alphabet was created by Sejong the Great Hangul is a unique alphabet: it is a featural alphabet, where many of the letters are designed from a sound's place of articulation ( P to look like the widened mouth, L to look like the tongue pulled in, etc.

For English, this is partly because the Great Vowel Shift occurred after the orthography was established, and because English has acquired a large number of loanwords at different times, retaining their original spelling at varying levels.

Aquarius is identified as " The Great One " in the Babylonian star catalogues and represents the god Ea himself, who is commonly depicted holding an overflowing vase.

However Abdul is a common Arabic prefix meaning " Servant of the " and " Al " is Arabic for " the ", and if " hazra " means " he prohibited ", " he fenced in " or " Great Lord ", then the name would mean " Servant of the Prohibited ", " Servant of the Fenced in ", or " Servant of the Great Lord " which would make sense considering his role, even if it is not a proper Arabic name.