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In 1999, Jamie Clarke became the first Westerner to cross the Empty Quarter of Arabia in fifty years. His team of six, guided by three Bedouins, spent 40 days crossing the desert with a caravan of 13 camels. [20] On 25 February 2006, a scientific excursion organized by the Saudi Geological Survey began to explore the Empty Quarter. The ...
The Rub' al Khali Basin (ٱلرُّبْع ٱلْخَالِي) or ar-Rubʻ al-Khālī / ar-rubʿ al-ḵālī Basin, Arabic for "Empty Quarter Basin", is a major endorheic sedimentary basin of approximately 560,000 square kilometres (220,000 sq mi) in southern Saudi Arabia, northeastern Yemen, southeastern Oman and southeasternmost United Arab Emirates.
Bertram Thomas riding on his favorite camel "khawarah" during his trip from Sohar to Sharjah in 1927. Bertram Sidney Thomas (13 June 1892 – 27 December 1950) was an English diplomat and explorer who is the first documented Westerner to cross the Rub' al Khali (Empty Quarter).
A satellite image of the Arabian Desert by NASA World Wind. The desert lies mostly in Saudi Arabia and covers most of the country. It extends into neighboring southern Iraq, southern Jordan, central Qatar, most of the Abu Dhabi emirate in the United Arab Emirates, western Oman, and northeastern Yemen.
Smaller of the Wabar craters visible on the surface. The crater on the left is about 11 m in diameter. The Wabar craters are impact craters located in Saudi Arabia first brought to the attention of Western scholars by British Arabist, explorer, writer and Colonial Office intelligence officer St John Philby, who discovered them while searching for the legendary city of Ubar in Arabia's Rub' al ...
About his journeys in the Empty Quarter and the Arabian Peninsula during the late forties, with photographs. My Life and Travels (anthology) 2002 HarperCollins 352 pp; ISBN 0-00-257151-X; 2003 Flamingo 320 pp; ISBN 0-00-655212-9; A Vanished World. 2001 W.W. Norton 192 pp; ISBN 0-00-710837-0
The Empty Quarter – most of Alaska, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana and Colorado from Denver west, as well as the eastern portions of Oregon, California, Washington, all of Alberta and Northern Canada (including what is now Nunavut), northern Arizona, parts of New Mexico (mainly the area controlled by the Navajo Nation), and British ...
06:32, 2005 June 6 RomeW (Created article to reflect the other Empty Quarter in Saudi Arabia) Independent history of The Empty Quarter. 19:50, 2005 July 5 Jerzy (ruthlessly focus on dab-ing) 06:33, 2005 June 6 RomeW; 06:32, 2005 June 6 RomeW (Created disambiguation page considering there are two well-known "Empty Quarters")