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A sand dune, or dune, was a natural feature found on several planets, containing sand, usually found in deserts. (COMIC: Desert Drama [+]Loading...["Desert Drama (comic story)"], PROSE: Time and Relative [+]Loading...["Time and Relative (novel)"], et al.)
Saturn had sand dunes in the 21st century. Captain Sam Bendine drove Hovertransporter A and Hovertransporter B over the "undulating sand dunes" of the Shindigville crater area, carrying a prefabricated oil rig from Earth. He relayed a message to the Shindig I Probe Team, asking them to prepare to receive equipment, as he was approaching the "dust-bowl crater". (PROSE: Oil Drill Shipped to Crater! [+]Loading...["Oil Drill Shipped to Crater! (short story)"])
Under the reign of the Golden Emperor, the metallic sands of the desert surrounding the Dalek City were magnetised, allowing the Daleks to pull the sand over their city within minutes, hiding it beneath an immense dune. (COMIC: Power Play [+]Loading...["Power Play (comic story)"])
To create his gynoid children, creatures of irrationality, Chris Cwej sat on a dune in a desert outside Normal-Space, beside the Carnival Queen, and meditated, freeing his mind from the Time Lord version of logic, and causing the gynoids to gestate beneath the sand. (PROSE: Christmas on a Rational Planet [+]Loading...["Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)"])
On Earth
A barkhan was, in the words of Susan Foreman, a "distinctive type of crescent-shaped Saharan sand dune". She was already familiar with the dune type from seeing Lawrence of Arabia by the time her geography teacher Mr Grange made his Coal Hill School class draw diagrams of one on 29 March 1963. (PROSE: Time and Relative [+]Loading...["Time and Relative (novel)"])
John Quarrington died in a collapsing dune. (AUDIO: The End of the Beginning [+]Loading...["The End of the Beginning (audio story)"])