Notable Crossings/killings
- Dorothy Gale is carried into Oz in her house by a cyclone, and back over again by her magic shoes, which fall off during her flight and are lost in the desert.
- The Wizard of Oz originally arrived in Oz by a circus balloon (which he implies functioned by a gas lighter than air, rather than hot air), and years later leaves Oz in a hot-air balloon of his own design.
- Ozma, the queen of Oz, crosses the desert with her whole court by use of an infinitely unrolling carpet.
- Dorothy Gale, Shaggy Man, and Button Bright cross the desert into Oz by use of a sand ship.
- The Nome King dug a tunnel underneath the desert.
- In the film Return to Oz, Dorothy Gale crosses the edge of the Desert by stepping upon stones.
- In Return to Oz, the pack of Wheelers fail to get across the Deadly Desert in pursuit of Dorothy and her flying sofa, who cross the desert to reach the Nome King's mountain. Half of the pack of Wheelers fall into the desert and are subsequently turned into sand and killed. The rest of the Wheelers later return with Princess Mombi and cross the desert through the tunnel dug underneath the desert to reach the Nome King's mountain.
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