Great Basin (disambiguation)

Look up Great Basin in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

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 desert (disambiguation), several places
• 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

This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.