page_title: Tanami Desert
hierarchical_section_title: Tanami Desert
caption_attribution_description: English: Taken from a moving 4x4 while driving toward Alice Springs 23 June 2004
context_page_description: The Tanami Desert is a desert in northern Australia, situated in the Northern Territory and Western Australia.
  It has a rocky terrain with small hills. The Tanami was the Northern Territory's final frontier and was not fully explored by Australians of European descent until well into the twentieth century. It is traversed by the Tanami Track.
  The name Tanami is thought to be an anglicisation of the Walpiri name for the area, "Chanamee", meaning "never die". This referred to certain rock holes in the desert which were said never to run dry.
  Under the name Tanami, the desert is classified as an interim Australian bioregion, comprising 25,997,277 hectares.
context_section_description: The Tanami Desert is a desert in northern Australia, situated in the Northern Territory and Western Australia.
  It has a rocky terrain with small hills. The Tanami was the Northern Territory's final frontier and was not fully explored by Australians of European descent until well into the twentieth century. It is traversed by the Tanami Track.
  The name Tanami is thought to be an anglicisation of the Walpiri name for the area, "Chanamee", meaning "never die". This referred to certain rock holes in the desert which were said never to run dry.
  Under the name Tanami, the desert is classified as an interim Australian bioregion, comprising 25,997,277 hectares (64,240,670 acres).
caption: Desert track, 2004
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