Eastern Desert
Noun
Meaning
a desert in Egypt between the Nile River and the Red Sea
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Examples
Eastern Desert A large plume of Saharan Desert dust (light brownish pixels) blown across Libya and Egypt northward over the Mediterranean Sea toward the Middle East, on February 2, 2003.
Gold mining is more recently a fast-growing industry with vast untapped gold reserves in the Eastern Desert.
In the autumn of 1330 (or 1332) he set off for the Seljuq controlled territory of Anatolia with the intention of taking an overland route to India.sfn He crossed the Red Sea and the Eastern Desert to reach the Nile valley and then headed north to Cairo.
The Eastern Desert is relatively mountainous.