Egyptian Sand Sea on:
[Wikipedia]
[Google]
[Amazon]
The Great Sand Sea is an approximately sand desert (erg) in the Sahara between western
page 1 - 3
The Egyptian sand sea lies parallel to the Calanshio Sand Sea of
Egypt Travel - The Great Sand SeaDesert GeomorphologyThe Great Sand Sea - Rough Guides
Deserts of Egypt Deserts of Libya Dunes of Egypt Ergs of Africa Western Desert (Egypt) {{Libya-geo-stub
The Great Sand Sea is an approximately sand desert (erg) in the Sahara between western Egypt
Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Medit ...
and eastern Libya
Libya (; ar, ليبيا, Lībiyā), officially the State of Libya ( ar, دولة ليبيا, Dawlat Lībiyā), is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Suda ...
in North Africa
North Africa, or Northern Africa is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of Mauritania in ...
. Some 74% of the area is covered by sand dunes.
Geography
The Great Sand Sea stretches about from north to south and from east to west. On satellite images this desert shows a pattern of long sand ridges running in a roughly north-south direction. However, despite the apparent uniformity the Great Sand Sea has two large areas with different types of megadunes.Besler, Helga (2008) ''The Great Sand Sea in Egypt: Formation, Dynamics and Environmental Change: A Sediment-Analytical Approach'' Elsevier, Amsterdampage 1 - 3
The Egyptian sand sea lies parallel to the Calanshio Sand Sea of
Libya
Libya (; ar, ليبيا, Lībiyā), officially the State of Libya ( ar, دولة ليبيا, Dawlat Lībiyā), is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Suda ...
, with which it is contiguous in the north. The dunes of the Great Sand Sea cover about 10 % of the total area of the Egyptian Western Desert.
Siwa is an oasis located in Egypt, about east of the Libyan border
Borders are usually defined as geographical boundaries, imposed either by features such as oceans and terrain, or by political entities such as governments, sovereign states, federated states, and other subnational entities. Political borders c ...
, in the eastern part of the Great Sand Sea or Egyptian Sand Sea.
Although well-known to the Tuareg
The Tuareg people (; also spelled Twareg or Touareg; endonym: ''Imuhaɣ/Imušaɣ/Imašeɣăn/Imajeɣăn'') are a large Berber ethnic group that principally inhabit the Sahara in a vast area stretching from far southwestern Libya to southern Alg ...
and traders who traveled with caravans across the Sahara, Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs
Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs (14 April 1831 – 2 June 1896) was a German geographer, explorer, author and adventurer.
Biography
Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs was born at Vegesack, now part of Bremen. His father was a physician, and there was much pre ...
was the first European to document the Great Sand Sea. He began his Saharan expeditions in 1865, and named the great expanse of dunes the ''Große Sandmeer'', but it was not until 1924 with the maps of Ahmed Hassanein that the full scope of the Great Sand Sea was appreciated by Europeans.
See also
* * *References
External links
*Egypt Travel - The Great Sand Sea
Deserts of Egypt Deserts of Libya Dunes of Egypt Ergs of Africa Western Desert (Egypt) {{Libya-geo-stub