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The Penetration of the Western Deserts of Australia
The Geographical Journal, 1970The colony of South Australia was founded as late as 1836, but once established passed through an extraordinarily rapid development. Within a very few years expansion and the search for new pastures had reached the fringe of the desert interior, which was being probed to lay bare its secrets.
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Relating to the Country in the Western Desert
1995Abstract At the time I conducted eleven months’ fieldwork in the region ofUluru (Ayers Rock, Australian Western Desert) between 1977 and 1979, half a century had passed since colonization by pastoralists had irrevocably changed the indigenous way of life. Uluru itself had been subject to tourism for twenty years. East of Uluru lay cattle
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2004
Abstract The Western Desert campaigns were fought in Egypt and Libya under the auspices of the Middle East Command, which had its headquarters in Cairo. It was the most important of the three campaigns fought by British and Commonwealth forces in the region, the others being in East Africa (Ethiopia and Somaliland) and the Balkans ...
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Abstract The Western Desert campaigns were fought in Egypt and Libya under the auspices of the Middle East Command, which had its headquarters in Cairo. It was the most important of the three campaigns fought by British and Commonwealth forces in the region, the others being in East Africa (Ethiopia and Somaliland) and the Balkans ...
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Western Sahara: Deserted Standards?
2011As one of the last unresolved self-determination cases originating during decolonization, Western Sahara has been on the international agenda for decades. Yet, despite over forty years of international pressure, mediation, peacekeeping, and attempts to conduct a referendum, the issue remains unresolved.
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Rainbows in the Indian rock art of desert western America
Applied Optics, 1990Scattered throughout the Great Basin and the drainages of the upper Colorado and Rio Grande Rivers is a legacy of prehistoric and historic (i.e., post-Spanish contact) Indian rock art that represents a several-thousand year old tradition of creating culturally meaningful images on stone.
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Yardangs of the Western Desert
The Geographical Journal, 1980M. J. Grolier +3 more
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Geomorphology of aeolian dunes in the western Sahara Desert
Geomorphology, 2021Xin Gao, Jiaqiang Lei
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Exotic Devonian palynomorphs from the Sifa-1X well in the Western Desert, Egypt
Palynology, 2021Walid A Makled +2 more
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The Desert Dwellers of Marmarica, Western Desert:
2012ANNA-KATHARINA RIEGER +2 more
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Cultivating Territorial Sovereignty in the Western Desert
2018Chapter 4 explores the relationship between territoriality and economic development in late-nineteenth-century Egypt. It argues that this period witnessed a raft of projects aimed at what, in the French colonial context, was called mise en valeur—the reclamation of barren, unprofitable land.
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