Coastal Deserts
8 deserts.
Namib Desert
The oldest desert on Earth at 55-80 million years. Its dunes around Sossusvlei are among t...
Atacama Desert
The driest non-polar desert. Some areas have had no recorded rainfall in over 500 years. N...
Sechura Desert
Located between the Andes and the Pacific. The Humboldt Current creates the aridity. Phosp...
Atacama detail
The Chinchorro mummies here are the oldest artificially mummified remains, predating Egypt...
Namib detail
The fairy circles are circular bare patches whose origin is still debated. The desert elep...
Skeleton Coast
Named for the whale bones and shipwrecks along the shore. The Benguela Current creates den...
Kaokoveld Desert
An extension of the Namib into northwest Namibia. The Himba people coat themselves in red ...
Lencois Maranhenses
White sand dunes stretching inland from the Atlantic coast of northeastern Brazil. Not a t...