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  1. Tract of the Western Desert, Egypt, up to 125
  2. m/400 ft below sea level. Its very soft sand
  3. makes it virtually impassable to vehicles,
  4. and it protected the left flank of the Allied
  5. armies before and during the battle of
  6. Alamein 1942. Area 20,000 sq km/7,500 sq mi.
  7.