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Unlike the Carcross, this one receives too much rain to be classified as a semi-arid desert.


My comment was tongue-in-cheek that the Carcross isn't a desert either, and the article claiming it was the "world's smallest desert" was wrong in both size and the erroneous statement that it is a desert.

>The dry climate and strong winds in the 260-hectare area make it feel like a real desert, but the Carcross Desert is actually a series of sand dunes (which technically have too much moisture to be classified as a desert).[0]

[0]https://web.archive.org/web/20090612184355/http://www.canadi...


It's also (albeit unintentionally) man made.




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