[DOC] [TLE] About the Expedition - Crossing the Empty Quarter [PAR] Crossing the Empty Quarter in the Footsteps of Bertram Thomas. ... The Empty 
Quarter, or Rub Al Khali, is one of the hottest, driest, most ... Covering some 
650,000 square kilometres of the Arabian Peninsula in Saudi Arabia, Oman, ... to 
become the first European to cross the Rub Al Khali, the largest sand desert on 
earth,... [DOC] [TLE] Bertram Thomas - Wikipedia [PAR] Bertram Sidney Thomas (13 June 1892  27 December 1950) was an English 
civil servant and Arabist who is the first documented Westerner to cross the Rub' 
al Khali (Empty Quarter). ... In this capacity, he undertook a number of expeditions 
into the desert, and became the first European to cross the Rub' Al Khali from 
1930... [DOC] [TLE] Rub' al Khali - Wikipedia [PAR] The Rub' al Khali is the largest contiguous sand desert (erg) in the world, 
encompassing most of the southern third of the Arabian Peninsula. .... by non-
resident explorers were made by British explorers Bertram Thomas in ... In 1999 
Jamie Clarke became the first Westerner to cross the Empty Quarter of Arabia in 
fifty years. [DOC] [TLE] Conquering the Empty Quarter, the largest sand desert on the planet ... [PAR] Jan 16, 2016 ... How one man is retracing the footsteps of Bertram Thomas 85 years after the 
explorer first made the 800 mile trek across the Arabian Peninsula. ... to become 
the first European to make the 800 miles journey across the Empty ... deeper into 
the Empty Quarter - known locally as Rub Al Khali  the three man... [DOC] [TLE] Crossing a desert wilderness in the footsteps of Britain's forgotten ... [PAR] Dec 9, 2015 ... When Bertram Thomas woke on Oman's coast 85 years ago, he did so with ... will 
set off from Oman today to recreate the first crossing of the Rub al-Khali, the ... 
Rub al-Khali, the forbidding Empty Quarter of the Arabian Peninsula. .... 
European Challenge Tour players Joel Sjoholm of Sweden, Jurrian van... [DOC] [TLE] Arabia Felix: Across the Empty Quarter of Arabia: Bertram Thomas ... [PAR] Buy Arabia Felix: Across the Empty Quarter of Arabia on Amazon.com  FREE ... 
Bertram Thomas crossed the vast southern desert of the Arabian Peninsula in the 
... To those who do not live there, it is called the Rub Al-Khali, the Empty Quarter. 
... Expedition to Yemen, a country virtually unknown to Europeans at the time. [DOC] [TLE] Preparation Pays Off: Bertram Thomas and the Crossing of the ... [PAR] Dec 10, 2015 ... ... the start of the historic crossing by Bertram Thomas of the Rub' al-Khali, the 
vast desert known in English as the Empty Quarter which occupies ... arriving 59 
days later in Doha, Qatar - the first European to traverse this extreme, ... In 1926 
Thomas went up to the northernmost tip of the Arabian Peninsula to... [DOC] [TLE] Saudi Aramco World : Across The Rub 'Al-Khali [PAR] In February 1931, Bertram Thomas, without so much as a by-your-leave to Ibn ... 
He, Philby, was going to explore the Empty Quarter and tell the world what that 
part ... From there, they were to strike west across the Rub' al-Khali to Sulaiyl
the point ..... Dora became the first European woman to cross Arabia from sea to 
sea. [DOC] [TLE] Bertram Thomas - Revolvy [PAR] Biography Bertram Thomas was born in Pill near Bristol and educated at Trinity ... 
into the desert, and became the first European to cross the Rub' Al Khali from ... 
across the Empty Quarter of the Arabian Peninsula between 1945 and 1950. [DOC] [TLE] Rub' al Khali - Topics [PAR] The Rub' al Khali ( Arabic :        ar-Rub al-l, " Empty Quarter ") is 
... in the world, encompassing most of the southern third of the Arabian Peninsula 
. ... by non-resident explorers were made by British explorers Bertram Thomas in 
..... into the desert, and became the first European to cross the Rub' Al

Question: Bertram Thomas was the first European to cross the Rub Al-Khali, the "Empty Quarter" of this peninsula
Answer: Arabian Peninsula