The Great Victoria Desert is the largest desert in Australia. It is 134,653 square miles. It is the third largest desert in the world.
This desert is protected by the Nature Reserve. The Friends of the Great Victorian Desert Parks' logo is a parrot named Princess Parrot.
Indigenous Australians inhabit parts of the Great Victoria Desert: two such groups are the Kogara and Mirning people.
The Great Victoria desert was first crossed in 1875 by European explorer, Ernest Giles. (on the left) It soon got its name, after Queen Victoria.