Desert at Troynovant:
Mirages on the American Southwest & other Deserts;
listed by Title
  

[Prospero's island.]

Adrian (to Gonzalo}:

Though this island seem to be desert —
...
Uninhabitable, and almost inaccessible —
...
It must needs be of subtle, tender, and delicate temperance.

William Shakespeare
The Tempest, 2.1.35-43