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Show Deserts Are in Two Zones Deserts, In the popular sense of the word, occur mainly In two zones encircling the world, and corresponding correspond-ing to regions of minimum rainfall. The more extensive extends from near the equator in an east-northeasterly direction across the whole breadth of North Africa, containing the Great Sahara, Libyan and Nubian Deserts: over the peninsula of Arabia, through Persia, Turkestan, the Gobi or Shamo desert, in about 02 degrees north latitude, lat-itude, to the Pacific ocean. The ring Is completed by the Great Basin of North America, in 40 degrees north latitude. The southern zone, less complete, com-plete, comprises the Kalahari desert In southwest Africa; the Interior of Australia, and small districts In the Argentine Republic and In the Andes. |