Desert are arguably one of the world's harshest and most magnificent landscapes due to they're scorching temperatures and cruel sandy landscape.
The Sahara desert shares the record of the hottest temperature on earth with the near-by Libyan desert in 1913 where as the Sahara's hottest was in 1922. The Deserts have a hottest recorded temperature of 58 degrees Celsius (136 degrees Fahrenheit) . Thats 146 degrees above the coldest temperature measured in an ice desert antarctica which was -88 degrees celsius, -126.4 fahrenheit. This is the hottest temperature ever recoreded even to this day. The Sahara, and all deserts landscapes are a combination of sandy, dune-filled, rocky and life less terrain is known for their harshness. |
Sahara desert along-side Libyan and other african deserts
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coordinates and locationThe Sahara desert is located 23 degrees north of the equator and 13 degrees east of the prime meridian.
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Skill ThreeAs seen deserts do not exceed a lot more than 30 degrees north & south of the equator. This is because of the earths axis towards the sun deserts are more frequent to be near the equator where direct sunlight limits rain and vegetation, this is what makes them such an harsh almost life-less landscape.
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