It can be as close as it wants. Antarctica, the biggest desert in the world, is surrounded by water. Whether a place is a desert or not depends on the amount of rainfall every year.
No oceans are close to the Simpson Desert. Lying essentially in central Australia, the Simpson Desert is closest to the Southern Ocean, but even that is about 700 km away, to the south.
If desert is to oasis as ocean is to island.
The Atacama Desert is along the Pacific Ocean.
Desert is to oasis.
Its an ocean
No, the Chihuahuan Desert is far from an ocean or large lake.
The Pacific Ocean.
Hollywood is close to the Mojave Desert but not actually in the desert.
Sahara Desert.
The Atacama borders the Pacific Ocean.
Penguins DO live in the desert. There is a species that occupies hillsides along the Pacific Ocean in the Atacama Desert in South America.
The Atacama Desertthe desert that is located between the Andes mountain and pacific ocean is named Atacama desert