Largest

1. Antarctic Desert
2. Arctic Desert
3. Sahara Desert
4. Great Australian Desert
5. Arabian Desert
6. Gobi Desert
7. Kalahari Desert
8. Patagonian Desert
9. Syrian Desert
10. Great Basin Desert

North America

Mojave Desert

• Smallest + driest desert; colloquially called “high desert” (dry summer, cold winter)
• Named for the Mojave people; meaning “beside the water”
• Southeastern California + southwestern Nevada (In shadow of Sierra Nevadas)
• Site of Death Valley (lowest elevation in North America)