Great Basin (disambiguation)

Great Basin may refer to:

• Great Artesian Basin (Australia), a source of inland freshwater
• Great Basin (Maine), a drainage basin in Piscataquis County, Maine
• Great Basin (western United States & Mexico), the largest North American endorheic watershed

Geographic areas associated with the Great Basin in western North America include:

• Great Basin Divide, the encompassing continental divide that demarcates the Great Basin from the Pacific watershed
• Great Basin deserts
• Columbia River Great Basin Divide in Caribou County, Idaho
• Great Basin National Park, a protected area in White Pine County, Nevada
• Great Basin section, the physiographic region much smaller than the Great Basin but which extends into the Pacific watershed
• Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin area, the cultural range of historic indigenous people much larger than the Great Basin
• Ecological areas & namesake fauna/flora of the western Great Basin:

• Great Basin Province, arid floristic areas of the Boreal Subkingdom
• Great Basin montane forest, a montane forest ecoregion defined by the World Wildlife Fund
• Great Basin Scrub desert, a herpetofaunal area north of the Creosote Bush desert
• Great Basin scrub habitat, with species such as the Long Valley milkvetch and the White-Throated Woodrat
• Great Basin shrub steppe, a sagebrush steppe WWF ecoregion
• fauna & flora: Great Basin Bristlecone Pine, Great Basin Pocket Mouse, Great Basin rattlesnake, Great Basin Spadefoot, & Great Basin wildrye

Other topics named for the western Great Basin include:

• Great Basin Anthropology, a topic of a regional journal published by the Malki Museum Press
• Great Basin Center for Geothermal Energy, a research organization of the UNR Mackay School of Earth Sciences and Engineering
• Great Basin College, a state college at Elko, Nevada
• Great Basin Institute, which promotes environmental research, education, and conservation at the University of Nevada, Reno.
• Great Basin Highway, U.S. Route 93 in Nevada
• Great Basin Naturalist, a former journal describing ecoscience regarding Great Basin areas