[DOC] [TLE] J! Archive - Show #4681, aired 2005-01-03 [PAR] Jan 3, 2005 ... The Tropic of Cancer lies 23 degrees, 27 minutes north of this line ... Where the 
tropic crosses Africa, it's mainly this desert... [DOC] [TLE] Sahara - Wikipedia [PAR] The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world, and the third largest desert in 
the world after Antarctica and the Arctic. Its area of 9,200,000 square kilometres (
3,600,000 sq mi) is comparable to the area of the United States. The desert 
comprises much of North Africa, excluding the fertile region on ... River which, 
from its origins in central Africa, crosses the desert underground... [DOC] [TLE] Kalahari Desert - Wikipedia [PAR] The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savanna in southern Africa 
extending 900,000 ... Despite its aridity, the Kalahari supports a variety of flora. ... 
km2 in the south and west of the Kalahari, the vegetation is mainly xeric savanna. 
... moisture as they cross up and over the Southern African Great Escarpment 
before... [DOC] [TLE] Geography of Nigeria - Wikipedia [PAR] The Tropical Continental Airmass (CT) locally known as the harmattan, is a wind 
originating from North Africa which crosses the Sahara Desert into west Africa to
... [DOC] [TLE] Causes of Aridity, and Geography of the World  s Deserts [PAR] (Deserts do not occur near the Equator, tropics occur there). ..... Precipitation falls 
mainly in the summer, the center of the desert receiving 1-2  per year. ... Climate 
is extremely dry because air must cross high mountains to reach the ... South 
America has its equivalent of Africa  s Benguela Current, called the Peru Current
. [DOC] [TLE] The complete guide to The Tropic of Capricorn | The Independent [PAR] Dec 22, 2000 ... The first landfall is the desert coast of Namibia, at the Sandwich Harbour. ... And 
like its locomotive counterpart in Conrad's Heart of Darkness, ... On into South 
Africa, the Tropic crosses the Limpopo River, the .... This powerful cocktail is 
mainly Cachaca, a fire water distilled from Brazilian sugar-cane juice. [DOC] [TLE] desert - National Geographic Society [PAR] Oct 19, 2011 ... As the air rises, it cools and drops its moisture as heavy tropical rains. ... The 
world's largest hot desert, the Sahara, is a subtropical desert in northern Africa. ... 
into the air that African dust sometimes crosses the Atlantic Ocean. .... Sugar cane 
is a very water-intensive crop mostly harvested in tropical regions. [DOC] [TLE] Types of Deserts - USGS Publications Warehouse [PAR] Oct 29, 1997 ... The world's largest desert, the Sahara of North Africa, which has ... As air rises 
over the mountain, water is precipitated and the air loses its moisture content. ... 
on the western edges of continents near the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. ... 
As the monsoon crosses India, it loses moisture on the eastern... [DOC] [TLE] Climate and Vegetation - Pearland ISD [PAR] Oct 16, 2002 ... His most challenging obstacle was the Sahara, a desert nearly the same ... gives 
most of Africa warm, tropical temperatures. ... instance, the Tibesti Mountains, 
located mostly in northwestern ... It closes its ... Capricorn passes. [DOC] [TLE] Africa: Coastal Namibia and Angola | Ecoregions | WWF [PAR] The Kaokoveld Desert stretches along the west coast of southern Africa between 
about ... A climatic transition belt that crosses the coastline north of Luderitz in 
Namibia ... This spiny, mainly leafless shrub collects wind-blown sand between 
its ... ago when this area shifted to its present position along the Tropic of 
Capricorn. [DOC] [TLE] North Africa and the African Transition Zone [PAR] Describe the main qualities of the African Transition Zone and explain how the ... 
Today, it is a Muslim-dominated realm with Arabic as its primary language. ... the 
Sahara Desert and the tropical type A climates of Africa's equatorial region. This 
is a .... Western Sahara is mainly desert terrain and only has about three hundred
... [DOC] [TLE] Subsaharan Africa [PAR] The Kalahari and Namib Deserts are located in Southern

Question: Where the tropic crosses Africa, it's mainly this desert
Answer: the Sahara