Tanami is an interim Australian bioregion, comprising 25,997,277 hectares (64,240,670 acres) in the Northern Territory and Western Australia.[1] It is part of the Great Sandy-Tanami desert ecoregion.

Tanami Australia
The interim Australian bioregions, with Tanami in red
Area	259,972.77 km2 (100,376.0 sq mi)
Localities around Tanami: Ord Victoria Plain Sturt Plateau Mitchell Grass Downs Great Sandy Desert Tanami Davenport Murchison Ranges Great Sandy Desert Burt Plain Channel Country

The bioregion has the code TAN.[2] There are three subregions.[2]

IBRA regions and subregions: IBRA7
IBRA region / subregion	IBRA code	Area	States	Location in Australia
Tanami	TAN	25,997,277 hectares (64,240,670 acres)	NT / WA
Tanami Desert	TAN01	20,769,151 hectares (51,321,690 acres)
Wycliffe	TAN02	1,600,893 hectares (3,955,890 acres)
Sandover	TAN03	3,627,233 hectares (8,963,090 acres)

See also

• Geography of Australia

References

Further reading

• Thackway, R and I D Cresswell (1995) An interim biogeographic regionalisation for Australia : a framework for setting priorities in the National Reserves System Cooperative Program Version 4.0 Canberra : Australian Nature Conservation Agency, Reserve Systems Unit, 1995. ISBN 0-642-21371-2