Great Victoria Desert vs Australia

Great Victoria Desert and Australia both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Great Victoria Desert	Yes	No	No	No
Australia	Yes	No	No	No

Great Victoria Desert (noun)	Australia (noun)
a desert region in south central Australia to the north of the Nullarbor Plain	a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony
	the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean