Libyan Desert

Noun

Meaning

the northeastern part of the Sahara Desert in Libya and Egypt and Sudan

Examples

Aside from the scarps, the general flatness is only interrupted by a series of plateaus and massifs near the centre of the Libyan Desert, around the convergence of the Egyptian-Sudanese-Libyan borders. Source: Internet

Eastern Uweinat (the highest point in the Libyan Desert) is a raised sandstone plateau adjacent to the granite part further west. Source: Internet

"Problems of the Libyan Desert: Geographical Journal" In 1957 the American Central Intelligence Agency proposed to President Dwight Eisenhower that peace in the Middle East could be achieved by flooding the Qattara Depression. Source: Internet

Six years later in 1933, Ball was the first to publish a proposal for flooding the region to generate hydro power in his article "The Qattara Depression of the Libyan Desert and the possibility of its utilisation for power-production". Source: Internet

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