![Contributor Avatar](https://cdn.britannica.com/mendel-resources/3-124/images/profile/default-contributor-image-avatar.jpg?v=3.124.35)
Ronald Francis Peel
Contributor
LOCATION: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Professor of Geography, University of Bristol, England, 1957–77. Chairman, Commission on Arid Lands, International Geographical Union. Author of Physical Geography.
Primary Contributions (1)
![sand dunes](https://cdn.britannica.com/10/152310-050-5A09D74A/Sand-dunes-Sahara-Morocco-Merzouga.jpg?w=320&h=240)
Sahara, (from Arabic ṣaḥrāʾ, “desert”) largest desert in the world. Filling nearly all of northern Africa, it measures approximately 3,000 miles (4,800 km) from east to west and between 800 and 1,200 miles from north to south and has a total area of some 3,320,000 square miles (8,600,000 square…
READ MORE