Name That Major Desert

Can you name all the major deserts in the world?

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According to http://geology.com/records/largest-desert.shtml

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Single Clues Of Deserts	Type Of Desert	Surface Area	Answer
Home Of The Dry Valleys	Polar	5.5 million mi²	Antarctica
Indigenous People Called Inuit	Polar	5.4 million mi²	Arctic
Snowed in February 19th, 1979	Subtropical	3.5 million mi²	Sahara
South of Fertile Cresent	Subtropical	1 million mi²	Arabian
Only 5% is sand dunes	Cold Winter	500,000 mi²	Gobi
Magellanic penguin origin	Cold Winter	260,000 mi²	Patagonian
In winter, it falls to 18 to 23 °C	Subtropical	250,000 mi²	Great Victoria
“Meerkat Manor” was produced here	Subtropical	220,000 mi²	Kalahari
Fremont People inhabited the area	Cold Winter	190,000 mi²	Great Basin
Known as "Badiyat al-Sham"	Subtropical	190,000 mi²	Syrian
Name of a Dog + n	Subtropical	175,000 mi²	Chihuahuan
The Uluru Rock is located here	Subtropical	150,000 mi²	Great Sandy

Single Clues Of Deserts	Type Of Desert	Surface Area	Answer
Black Sand in Turkic languages	Cold Winter	135,000 mi²	Kara-Kum
Four Corners Monument is in here	Cold Winter	130,000 mi²	Colorado Plateau
Covers Officer Basin & Canning Basin	Subtropical	120,000 mi²	Gibson
Saguaro Cacti grow here	Subtropical	120,000 mi²	Sonoran
Also spelled Qyzylqum	Cold Winter	115,000 mi²	Kyzyl-Kum
In the Xinjiang Uyghur Region in China	Cold Winter	105,000 mi²	Taklamakan
Alborz Mountains to Central plateau	Cold Winter	100,000 mi²	Iranian
60% of the desert lies in Rajasthan State	Subtropical	75,000 mi²	Thar
World's longest parallel sand dunes	Subtropical	56,000 mi²	Simpson
The Death Valley is located here	Subtropical	54,000 mi²	Mojave
Driest Desert in the world	Cool Coastal	54,000 mi²	Atacama
Welwitschia Mirabilis, only founded here	Cool Coastal	13,000 mi²	Namib