He depicted the landscape as being a harsh, barren and sterile wasteland. It is a region of barren, arid, frigid and wind-blown wastelands. The topography is a contrast between verdant slopes and barren steep rocks. The desert is generally thought of as a barren and empty landscape. The coastlines are rocky and predominantly barren with fjords. They claim that the previously barren island was rendered fertile through blood sacrifice. The painting depicts a disembodied face hovering against a barren desert landscape. All the oases have always been crossroads of caravan routes converging from the barren desert. The city is surrounded by low, rocky, and barren hillocks. The island group are known to consist of five uninhabited islets and three barren rocks. The effort was abandoned due to difficulties farming the sandy barren soil. A view of a barren desert is then immediately shown. They lie under of waterlogged muskeg, of clay and barren sand. All remnants of Barren Island's former community and landscape were obliterated. This can rapidly result in transitions to barren landscapes where relatively few species persist.