Empty Quarter - Satellite Photography Size:83 x 90 cm Within the Painted Desert lie

Within the Painted Desert lie the Hopi Buttes

and numerous other characters populating the urban landscape of Regency-era and early Victorian Britain

On the border between Chili and the Catamarca province of Argentina lies a vast field of currently dormant volcanoes

Joseph Cotten

and political cartoonist prominent in the second half of the 19th century

Empty Quarter - Satellite Photography Size:83 x 90 cm Within the Painted Desert lieWhite pinpricks of cloud cast ebony shadows on the Rub' al Khali, or Empty Quarter, near the border between Saudi Arabia and Yemen. The lines of wind sculpted sand are characteristic of immense sand deserts, or sand seas, and the Rub' al Khali is the largest desert of this type in the world. A highland ridge is just high enough to disturb the flow of the lines. In the center of that interruption lies the Saudi Arabian town of Sharurah.