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 Desert is a sparsely populated desert area in Western Australia and South Australia.

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.

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 )

* Droughts like the ' dust bowl ' of the Great Depression in the U. S. turned farmland into desert.

While still a deacon under Alexander's care, he seems to have been brought for a while into close relations with some of the solitaries of the Egyptian desert, and in particular with the Anthony the Great, whose life he is said to have written.

: Our adventures in the desert were eventually terminated by our arrival at " Las Vegas de Santa Clara ", and a pleasant thing it was to look once more upon green grass and sweet water, and to reflect that the dreariest part of our journey lay behind us, so that the sands and jornados of the Great Basin would weary our animals no more ...

* Great Lakes Basin desert steppe

Nevada is largely desert and semiarid, with much of it located within the Great Basin.

Much of the northern part of the state is within the Great Basin, a mild desert that experiences hot temperatures in the summer and cold temperatures in the winter.

When Alexander the Great reached Egypt, he put his whole vast enterprise on hold, while he made his way with a small band deep into the Libyan desert, to consult the oracle of Ammun.

In the north, the An Nafud — sometimes called the Great Nafud because An Nafud is the term for desert — covers about 55, 000 square kilometers at an elevation of about 1, 000 meters.

The desert is underlain by the Great Artesian Basin, one of the largest inland drainage areas in the world.

The Egyptian god Amun developed as the Hellenized Zeus Ammon after Alexander the Great went into the desert to seek out Amun's oracle at Siwa.

The pumps drove some of the water of the Great Salt Lake into the 320, 000-acre ( 1300-square kilometer ) Newfoundland Evaporation Basin in the desert west of the lake.

One week later, however, the Great Fire of London reduced two-thirds of the City to a smoking desert and old St Paul's to a ruin.

After it was determined that ticks could not survive a desert crossing, the government endorsed James Isdell's scheme and funded a survey to find a stock route that would cross the Great Sandy Desert, the Little Sandy Desert and the Gibson Desert.

Another reintroduction site is Great Gobi B Strictly Protected Area, located at the fringes of the Gobi desert.

: There is another desert called the " Great Sandy Desert " in Oregon, US.

The Great Sandy Desert is a desert located in the North West of Western Australia straddling the Pilbara and southern Kimberley regions.

It is the second largest desert in Australia after the Great Victoria Desert and encompasses an area of

The interior regions ' climates are a northward extension of the Great Basin Desert, which spans the Great Basin farther south, although by their northern reaches dryland and desert areas verge with boreal forest and various alpine flora regimes.

The Santa Ana winds usually form during autumn and early spring when the surface air in the elevated regions of the Great Basin and Mojave Desert ( the " high desert ") becomes cool or even cold, although they may form at virtually any time of year.

While the air has already been dried by orographic lift before reaching the Great Basin as well as by subsidence from the upper atmosphere, the relative humidity of the air is further decreased as it descends from the high desert toward the coast, often falling below 10 percent.