Thulo Besina Marubhumi

The Eastern Desert (colloquially) - the Thulo Besina Marubhumi {Great Basin Desert} (officially) - is a geographical region on the Tairiku continent of Nejiro north of the Sharqiun Kiso Yama {eastern foundation backbone mountains}. With other geological boundaries of the Kuroi Oka {black hills} to the north, the Yoshino-gawa {excellent beautiful respected honored graceful pleasing sound river} in the west, and the Samenoumi {shark ocean} in the east, and includes the Sugoi Peninsula {wow, amazing, awesome}, the Woy Woy Peninsula {much water, big lagoon}, and the Tora Hanto {tiger peninsula}. The province was most recently shaped by the retreat of the glaciers at the end of the last epochs ice age. Numerous layers of heavy dense sheets of ice had compressed the land into what was once sea floor during a prior geological epoch and the planetary crust beneath it. When the glaciers broke and slid into the sea it took great pieces of the landscape with them. Now the Eastern Desert is as much as fifteen hundred meters lower than the rest of the continent of Tairiku, and slopes significantly from the eastern banks of the Yoshino-gawa towards the coastlines of the Eastern Sea, the Sulu Sea {dynamic flowing water}, the Sangosho Gulf {coral}, and the Samenoumi {shark ocean}. The province is substantially more arid than the rest of the Tairiku continent due to its low elevation, as the air currents carrying rain travel at high altitudes the water evaporates before falling to the ground. Although there is little rainfall (the region only averages approximately one hundred fifty millimeters per year mostly from weather systems sweeping in from the ocean - the Samenoumi, the Eastern Sea, the Sulu Sea, the Sangosho Gulf - during the relatively humid winters), there is considerable water in the region due to the large rivers left in the wake of the retreating glaciers, in addition to deep aquifers, lakes, canals, and cisterns. The hot summers bring ample sunshine where the temperatures rise to an average of thirty eight degrees celsius in the region, and occasionally torrential rains or haboob {dust and sand storms}. The coastlines along the Sangosho Gulf and Pearl Bay are overwhelmingly soft white sand beaches (of mostly terminal quartz sand particles and carbonate shell particles), that slope to the ocean and harmonize with the sapphire blue waters, from limestone and sandstone cliffs and hilly woodlands of eucalyptus, poplar, kapok, aspen, cottonwood, and elm. In the hilly areas of the countryside the depressions have filled with older lime rich material developing deep, rich, dark clay soils excellent for dryland farming and the heights have diatomaceous albariza that provides ideal conditions for vineyards and olive groves. These inland woodlands are abundant in cork oak, redsilk cotton, pines, fir, holm oak, citrinae, cistus, juglans, prunus, thyme, and rosemary. The Eastern Desert is on the migratory route for a considerable variety of birds and other wildlife including great flamingo, greyly geese, imperial eagles, griffon vulture, knobbed coots, azul kites, nero condor, and horned tiger owls. Among the native herbivores are pronghorn, ibex, idaina kemono {mighty beast - native quadruped ungulate similar to oxen found wild across the Tairiku continent that may reach a height of two meters and an average weight of seventeen hundred kilograms with tough black skin, horns, and hooves and white, grey, or greyish brown coats they are good foragers that thrive in heat and sunlight that are resistant to disease and parasites - small numbers have been domesticated for premium beef production as the meat is of very high quality}, serow, masked bears, desert mule deer, roe deer, sambar deer, horned andalusians, wild horses, hares, goats, nhema boars, and criollo cattle. Local carnivores include sarkans wolf, xolotl, strandwolf, iberlynx, spotted hyenas, otters, spotted genet, aardwolf, saltwater crocodiles, tomistoma crocodylian, and gharial. Other notable species in the Eastern Desert province are agassiz kame {desert tortoise}, hawkmoths, lestat viper, rayfin pupfish, habu pit viper, and banded sea krait.