Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Tanami Desert is a desert in northern Australia situated in the Northern Territory and Western Australia. It has a rocky terrain with small hills. The Tanami was the Northern Territory's final frontier and was not fully explored by Australians of European descent until well into the twentieth century. It is traversed by the Tanami Track.The name Tanami is thought to be a corruption of the Walpiri name for the area, \"Chanamee\", meaning \"never die\". This referred to certain rock holes in the desert which were said to never run dry.Under the name Tanami, the desert is classified as an interim Australian bioregion, comprising 25,997,277 hectares (64,240,670 acres)."@en }
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- Tanami_Desert abstract "The Tanami Desert is a desert in northern Australia situated in the Northern Territory and Western Australia. It has a rocky terrain with small hills. The Tanami was the Northern Territory's final frontier and was not fully explored by Australians of European descent until well into the twentieth century. It is traversed by the Tanami Track.The name Tanami is thought to be a corruption of the Walpiri name for the area, \"Chanamee\", meaning \"never die\". This referred to certain rock holes in the desert which were said to never run dry.Under the name Tanami, the desert is classified as an interim Australian bioregion, comprising 25,997,277 hectares (64,240,670 acres).".