The Western Australia Mallee shrub ecoregion lies to the west, the Little Sandy Desert to the northwest, the Gibson Desert and the Central Ranges xeric shrublands to the north, the Tirari and Sturt Stony deserts to the east, while the Nullarbor Plain to the south separates it from the Southern Ocean.

American minimalism and post minimalism are represented by Steve Reich's Desert Music, choral excerpts from Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach and John Adams ' The Death of Klinghoffer, and David Lang's Pulitzer Prize-winning Little Match Girl Passion.

The Little Desert National Park is in Victoria, Australia, 375 kilometres west of Melbourne.

The Little Desert receives an annual rainfall of about 480 millimetres ( 19 inches ), though there is a gradient from 400 millimetres ( 16 inches ) in the east to 600 millimetres ( 23. 5 inches ) near Naracoorte.

This is about the same as the dry farming country surrounding the park, but the Little Desert has very deep sandy soils, which are much lower in essential nutrients than the ( only moderately fertile ) clay soils used for agriculture.

Even after fertilizers containing these elements became available, studies made by the Victorian government during the 1950s and 1960s showed that the Little Desert was not capable of becoming productive farmland and would fetch only low prices if cleared for agriculture.

Over time, the Little Desert became a national park, beginning in 1968 with the eastern third.

The Little Desert has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area ( IBA ) because it supports populations of Malleefowl and Diamond Firetails.

The Little Desert National Park is divided into three sections: Western Block, Central Block and Eastern Block.

fr: Parc national de Little Desert

nl: Nationaal park Little Desert

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.

Canning Stock Route four-wheel drive track crossing the Little Sandy Desert

It is also found in the Grampians and the Little Desert in Victoria and is widespread in Tasmania.

Forty million years ago the Southern Ocean reached the base of the northern and western base of the mountain range, the deposition from the range forming the sea floor which is now Little Desert National Park.

Beginning in early 1967, a new area of the prison was opened for incoming American POWs ; it was dubbed " Little Vegas ", and its individual buildings and areas were named after Las Vegas Strip landmarks, such as " Golden Nugget ," " Thunderbird ," " Stardust ," " Riviera ," and the " Desert Inn.

The park is situated between the Little Sandy Desert and the Great Sandy Desert and includes the catchment area of the Rudall River.

The Little Painted Desert is 18 miles north of Winslow.

* Russell McGuirk The Sanusi's Little War The Amazing Story of a Forgotten Conflict in the Western Desert, 1915 – 1917 ( London, Arabian Publishing: 2007 )

The US version consisted of 15 tracks on a single CD, including a live version of " Hell is for Children " with Suffer the Little Children intro, " Painted Desert " ( from Tropico ) and a remixed version of " Outlaw Blues " ( also from Tropico ).

After much debate on the General Executive Board, with Haywood advocating a low profile and GEB member Frank Little championing continued agitation, Ralph Chaplin brokered a compromise agreement.

Whether this article refers to an early version of the contemporary dance by the same name is still a matter of debate, as some historians claim that Carolina Shag is a descendant of Carolina Jitterbug, and its predecessor, Little Apple ( whose origins can supposedly be traced to Columbia, S. C. in 1937 ).

The programme included a skits of a Singlish version of ' Little Red Riding Hood ', a courtroom trial as well as a mock debate on the topic " Men Are Redundant ".

As the Algerian War is still, in a certain way, taboo on many points, films on the subject were rare or subject to debate: The Little Soldier ( Le Petit Soldat ), Avoir vingt ans dans les Aurès, La question.

Little River gorge is Victoria's deepest gorge, with the Little River dropping 610 metres off the Wulgulmerang plateau over 14 km to the Snowy River at an elevation of 122 metres above sea level.

The Glen Huntly was forced to land at Little Red Bluff ( now Point Ormond ) and Victoria's first quarantine station was formed to deal with the crisis.

Little sign of the original damage is visible and, except for light cleaning, the vase should not require major conservation work for many years.

By the 1950s, the Little Egret had become restricted to southern Europe, and conservation laws protecting the species were introduced.

* Little Houses Improvement Scheme launched by the National Trust for Scotland to promote conservation of vernacular architecture.

Little is known about this species which makes it hard to manage, but since it is in decline, conservation attempts are underway.

Centred around the main conservation island of Tiritri Matangi and Little Barrier Island, numerous bird species that were locally extinct have been reintroduced in the last decades, while there have also been some naturally occurring bird " re-colonisations ", especially after introduced pests were removed from breeding and nesting grounds.

Little regard was given to modern conservation values, but once these evolved, the country became a world leader in wildlife management.

The Little Sioux River is integral to the Nepper Watershed Project, a major Iowa flood control and soil conservation program that was introduced in 1947.

The lower reach of the river is known as the Ythan Estuary, a Special Protection Area for conservation, particularly the breeding ground of three tern species ( Common Tern, Little Tern and Sandwich Tern ) ( Lumina, 2004 ).

Rawdon has a conservation area called Little London which lies to the westernmost area of Rawdon.

Little London conservation area is unique in that the historic area covered by the designation straddles the boundary of the district and one of its neighbours, Bradford.

Little London is at the westernmost tip of the contiguous urbanised settlement of Rawdon which coalesces with Guiseley, the centre of which is approximately 1. 5 km to the northeast of the conservation area.

The area to the west of the conservation area is rural Green Belt, with Esholt village lying 2 km to the west of Little London in the Green Belt.

The Little Spotted Kiwi or Little Gray Kiwi, Apteryx owenii, is a small species of kiwi originally from New Zealand's South Island ( what is known is they used to live near Marlborough and where Tokoeka currently live ) that, around 1890 and 1910 was captured ( for conservation purposes ) and later released on Kapiti Island.

During 1970 to 1995, four major actions were implemented in the Central Area: public housing and service facilities such as stores and marketplaces ; the same standards of URA sales programmes with the private developers in constructing the relocation centres and commercial building ; the preservation of shop-house area such as Chinatown, Little India and Bussorah Street areas in URA 1988 master plan for conservation ; and letting the private sector to own the land, especially in the Central Area, the Golden Shoe, and Orchard Road.

He also founded the Northmoor Trust to promote nature conservation at Little Wittenham and the Wittenham Clumps, and the Sylva Foundation to support sustainable forest management.