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All Desert Dunes and Sand Seas

Sand dunes, dune fields and sand seas of the world deserts, where wind piles inland sand into great dunes that can rise hundreds of metres and stretch across whole basins. Star dunes, crescent dunes and long linear ridges grow according to the wind and the sand supply. A dune belongs here when its cited article places it in a desert or calls it a sand sea or dune field. Each member is placed by what its own article says it is, never by its name alone.

All Desert Dunes and Sand Seas
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Dune 45 (Wikipedia)
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Dune 45 is a star dune in the Sossusvlei area of the Namib Desert in Namibia.
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Dumont Dunes (Wikipedia)
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Dumont Dunes is an area of the Mojave Desert containing large sand dunes, located approximately 31 miles (50 km) north of Baker, California, United States on California State Route 127.
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Rig-e Jenn (Wikipedia)
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The Rig-e Jenn (Persian: ریگ جن, lit. 'Dune of the Jinn'), or Desert of Spirits, is an area of sand dunes straddling Semnan province and Isfahan province in Iran's Great Salt Desert.
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Rub' al Khali (Wikipedia)
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The Rub' al Khali (; Arabic: ٱلرُّبْع ٱلْخَالِي, lit. 'Empty Quarter', [ar.rʊbʕ‿al.χaːliː]) is a desert encompassing most of the southern third of the Arabian Peninsula.
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Sharqiya Sands (Wikipedia)
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The Sharqiya Sands (Arabic: ٱلرِّمَال ٱلشَّرْقِيَّة, romanized: Ar-Rimāl Ash-Sharqiyyah, formerly known as Wahiba Sands (Arabic: رِمَال وَهِيْبَة, romanized: Rimāl Wahībah or Arabic: رَمْلَة آل وَهِيْبَة, romanized: Ramlat Āl Wahībah)) is a region of desert in Oman.
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Namib (Wikipedia)
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The Namib (, NAH-mib; Portuguese: Namibe) is a coastal desert in Southern Africa.
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Singing Sand Dunes (Dunhuang) (Wikipedia)
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The Singing Sand Dunes (Chinese: 鳴沙山 Pinyin: míng shā shān) in Dunhuang, China, are the sand dunes that, when the wind blows, give out a singing or drumming sound.
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Duna Federico Kirbus (Wikipedia)
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The Duna Federico Kirbus is the highest sand dune in the world, located in the northwest of Argentina, in the Catamarca Province.
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Great Sand Hills (Wikipedia)
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The Great Sand Hills, also spelt Great Sandhills, are sand dunes in the south-west region of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.
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Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve (Wikipedia)
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Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve is a national park of the United States that conserves an area of large sand dunes
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Winnemucca Sand Dunes (Wikipedia)
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The Winnemucca Sand Dunes are an area of sand dunes in Humboldt County, Nevada.
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