The Great Sandy-Tanami desert is a ecoregion of Western Australia extending into the Northern Territory.

[6][7] The landscape is desert sands with areas of wooded steppe and shrubby grassland.

The vegetation is very thin and consists of spinifex grass and saltbush shrubs that are adapted to the desert conditions.

Much of the wildlife of this hot climate is nocturnal including the rabbit-sized marsupial the Bilby and the Rufous hare-wallabies of the Tanami Desert.

The wildlife of these deserts includes communities of wild camels, descendants of animals brought here as transport in earlier times.