Latitudinal zonal divisions can be seen on plains, and azonal divisions in mountainous areas. |
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Since then, the mountainous county has been prone to mudflows and landslides triggered by torrential rains. |
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Many of the communities in this beautiful mountainous region are desperately poor. |
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Poor communication and transport in the remote and mountainous region also hampered operations. |
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Pakistan controls a thin slice of the valley in the west and a large tract of mountainous land in the north. |
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The school is in a village in Auvergne, a rural and mountainous region in France. |
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In general, mountainous regions with their steep slopes and deep valleys are eroded fastest. |
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The government, meanwhile, is burdened with a debt to rich creditors so mountainous it can simply never be repaid. |
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It was a massive building lined with silver and jade, a mountainous structure glimmering in the sun. |
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Rugged, mountainous, impenetrable, recalcitrant and peopled by an enemy hardened and fanatical, it was considered unconquerable. |
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Shortly after noon, the valley's pass began to widen slowly, the mountainous sides slanting somewhat away from vertical. |
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The Dominican Republic's mountainous interior and long stretches of unimproved roads make for perfect fat-tire odysseys. |
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However, up in the mountainous region like this also brought cold wind and cool temperature. |
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To this day unisonous singing has survived in Hevsureti, Tusheti and other mountainous areas. |
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The mountainous topography and the lack of navigable waterways were an almost insuperable obstacle to the movement of passengers and freight. |
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Kyrgyzstan is a mountainous country with many snowfields, glaciers, and deep lakes. |
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These islands are mountainous, with rainforests that make the climate equable and supplies of fresh water plentiful. |
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Roaring south-easterlies of 35 knots and mountainous swells of about six metres during the 24 hours since Wednesday were hammering the yachts. |
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This vast mountainous region is crossed by just two roads which wind their way up to high, windblown passes. |
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The vetches and vetchlings are native to temperate areas in both hemispheres and their range even extends into mountainous parts of Africa. |
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The via ferrata was created in order to provide ease while discovering the mountainous experience. |
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They followed riverbeds and paths cut through the mountainous terrain for the Indonesian army. |
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At the same time opposition forces began building fortified strongholds in hard-to-access mountainous areas. |
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Chinchillas and mountain viscachas live in mountainous, rocky areas, where they move over and through the rocks with great agility. |
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Figures in industrial protective outfits go about their business, cleaning up the mountainous terrain, spraying, collecting. |
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He was amazed to see that it was not a perfect sphere as he had been taught, but rough and mountainous. |
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Fair play to them both, they took on what was a mountainous challenge and now against all the odds have emerged victorious. |
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Held 2250 ft above sea-level in the lush, mountainous region of Thimpu, Bhutan, the match was a decidedly stripped-down affair. |
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They live in mountainous regions, and mine ores and metal to craft weapons. |
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There is a comically mountainous platter of onion rings, which are more about crunchy batter than sweet, juicy onions. |
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Having been brought up in the dry, mountainous terrain of Balluchistan and his mother tongue being Saraiki, his background conspired against him. |
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Not the mountainous dish I had anticipated, but they demolished the curry with enthusiasm, and felt pleasantly full afterwards. |
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The Massif Central is a large mountainous plateau in the central area, which includes the ancient volcanoes of the Auvergne region. |
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These are scattered tribes who live in remote plateaus and mountainous areas. |
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In fact, if the dirty crocks get too mountainous, they can simply chuck them away. |
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Teams so often fold up facing a mountainous task like the one before Australia. |
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The Khmer Loeu hill tribes live in remote highland areas in the plateaus and mountainous areas on the edges of Cambodia. |
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A Colombian airliner has crashed in a remote mountainous area of Venezuela killing all 160 people on board. |
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Also known by the name, coney and rock rabbit, the pika is found across most mountainous regions of western North America. |
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They have more supporters, and of course there isn't the concentration of U.S. troops on the ground in that very mountainous and difficult area. |
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Green hills turned to blue-grey, a little more craggy here, a bit mountainous there. |
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When the coal miners pulled out, it left this rugged, mountainous area of southern West Virginia even more desperate. |
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In mountainous stages the peloton is likely to become fragmented, but in flat stages a split is rare. |
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Young soldiers practiced field firing and went on six-kilometer double-time forced marches in full combat gear in mountainous terrain. |
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I've lived quite a few years through mountainous, rural Idahoan winters and survived them. |
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They withdrew to the mountainous south, whence Russian forces have to this day been unable to dislodge them. |
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Atauro is 25 kilometres long with a mountainous spine, narrow coastal plains, and fringed by some of the best coral reefs in the world. |
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A thaw finally set in but the snow remained in many hollows and mountainous areas right into the summer of that year. |
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Together with the slightly more mountainous Antigua, they make up the island nation. |
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Reade, for instance, created mountainous archives in preparation for his work, with newspaper clippings and other research materials. |
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The country consists of a large, mountainous island, much longer than it is wide. |
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The mountainous hinterland of the Gold Coast and northern NSW received exceptional falls, up to 600 mm within 24 hours. |
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This is a very hilly and mountainous region of the country where it snows in the winter. |
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Along some mountainous coasts the continental slope descends abruptly into a deep ocean trench that parallels the landmass. |
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Although troops need to be acclimatized for any kind of mountainous terrain, the duration depends on the altitude at which the unit must operate. |
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She and her craft spent 10 hours in the grip of a storm with winds gusting up to 70 mph and mountainous seas which hurled her around the cabin. |
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Even today rack railways are not too uncommon in some countries, especially mountainous ones. |
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Scotland's mountainous terrain has long attracted avid hikers, cyclists, and wildlife watchers. |
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They raised crops and pastured their flocks in Morocco's mountainous inland regions. |
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In high mountainous areas of Europe and the near East, the most important prey animal for hunters is typically a goat, ibex or chamois. |
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He used that phrase with reference to only two other mountains on this mountainous coast. |
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Madeira's is a mountainous interior, mysteriously wreathed by a cover of clouds. |
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Fly through passes in mountainous terrain where venturi-fed winds can be fickle and unpredictable, and all bets are off. |
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Minority groups in this small, mountainous country include the Mon-Khmer, the Yao, and the Hmong. |
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Bhutan is a small, landlocked country in the mountainous area north of India. |
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People from all over the world study in this colorful, mountainous country, long renowned for its inexpensive schools. |
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Russian news agencies said the gunships pounded guerrilla hideouts in the region's mountainous south, killing at least a dozen people. |
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It is rugged country, mostly mountainous, with hundreds of caves and hideouts. |
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However, surrounding tribes rose up and forced a desperate retreat through mountainous country. |
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Vast, mountainous, woody, and lightly populated, Algeria offered terrain favorable to guerrilla warfare. |
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The area is remote, mountainous, and roadless, with the villages scattered along high valleys. |
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Despite superior numbers and firepower, Russian troops have been unable to uproot the rebels from their mountainous hideouts. |
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It involves negotiating mountainous routes through snow and the ice of glaciers as well as the ascent of rock routes in a glaciated environment. |
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The militants attack Indian forces almost daily in the mountainous province. |
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Many of the islands are mountainous and heavily forested with teak, ebony, and sandalwood. |
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In these mountainous areas, the typical Caucasian home is built like a fortress, with high watchtowers and six-metre walls. |
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Three enormous, sauceless meatballs made even the mountainous pile of unexceptional potato salad look small in comparison. |
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Green and fertile with magnificent valleys, dramatic mountainous terrain, and a rich cultural history, the island is engagingly picturesque. |
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The three mountainous areas consist of large cores of igneous rocks surrounded by larger areas of metamorphic rocks, mostly schists and gneiss. |
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Two women, in their mid-40s, traveled 1,717 miles of frozen, mountainous, treacherous terrain on skis and parasails. |
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They were traveling through the country's mountainous, far-western districts where Maoists have largely taken control. |
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In mountainous areas, the towers were built with one leg shorter than the other and they have ball-and-socket joints at the base. |
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That support, and the mountainous conditions, have helped him to elude one of the largest dragnets in history. |
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The southern region is of volcanic origin, with a mountainous terrain of red clay hills, waterfalls, rivers, and streams. |
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The mountainous islet of Meganisi is one of the loveliest hideaways in the Ionian Sea. |
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The second was the mountainous Shan States in north-eastern Burma, populated by people ethnically related to the Thais. |
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Still, there are plenty of poor, mountainous countries where cycling hasn't seized the public imagination. |
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The other big challenge lies in looking at the mountainous areas where ecotourism is starting to become a very popular activity. |
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They suspect that Bedouins may have provided arms, or helped the attackers navigate through the desert and find refuge in the mountainous areas. |
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Mexico's mesophyllic mountain forests are limited to mountainous regions where the vegetation is often covered by clouds. |
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Physical Rwanda occupies a mountainous region where the equatorial climate is modified by the altitude. |
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Its expansive mirrored surface is lined with rocky coastlines, mountainous and jagged in the north to gently sloping in the south. |
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Each subtropical gyre is created by mountainous flows of air moving from the tropics toward the polar regions. |
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It was a mountainous country but also one with several points of easy entry for English armies and settlers. |
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She graduated to the 50-mile Nifty 50 Ultra in Coventry, R.I., and in 1997 did a 100-mile endurance run along mountainous trails in Vermont. |
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Oak, mountain ash, and coniferous trees are found in mountainous regions under 1,000 feet. |
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The mountainous county has become a natural habitat for boars and owls, yet crops there have also been ruined by them. |
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The army, they say, lacked sufficient combat readiness to fight in mountainous terrain. |
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It proposes setting up mobile teams to provide specialist medical services in remote mountainous regions. |
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This time the Swindon-born aviator hopes to smash an altitude record in a balloon over mountainous terrain. |
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The mountainous region around the small Corsican town of Bastilyica breeds a hardy, proud people. |
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The southern part of the province is mountainous with most villages situated at the foot of the mountains. |
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Victims were forced to live in sanatoriums on small islands or deep in mountainous hinterlands. |
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In India, they can only be found today in the mountainous regions of Kashmir and Ladakh. |
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Galicia is a mountainous land of ever-present rain and mists and lush greenery. |
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However, few families own more than a small number of cows, water buffalo, or yaks because the mountainous topography does not provide grazing land for large animals. |
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Operators of wind towers will tend to want to build them in mountainous areas with high winds and along shorelines and thereby ruin some beautiful scenic vistas. |
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The Pike River coal mine is about 50 miles northeast of Greymouth and is in a steep mountainous area. |
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Every year, after the snow melts in the mountainous regions on the border, there is a race against time to see which nation takes charge of the heights near the border. |
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To make things as simple as possible I decided to concentrate on images of flat emptiness, avoiding mountainous areas where the contour lines jostle against each other. |
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The possessors want to stop the proliferators, and the proliferators want to defy them as well as ask them to get rid of their own mountainous nuclear arsenals. |
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Because of the very mountainous terrain and the need for very shallow radius curves, most of the route will be in tunnels, with consequent heavy civil engineering costs. |
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If you want to change valleys, then you climb the mountainous divides. |
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All types of artillery were used in mountainous terrain, but mortars, mountain guns, and howitzers proved by far the most adapted to action on difficult, rugged terrain. |
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In connection with the utilization of natural resources in thinly populated and mountainous forest regions, the problems of forest pyrology, become ever more urgent. |
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Such terrain includes cities, jungles, and dense forests, but it also includes open terrain when it is mountainous or broken, affording the enemy numerous hiding places. |
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It may not be mountainous enough for truly daring climbers, but Britain's wonderful and diverse countryside can cater for serious hikers and weekend ramblers alike. |
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For years, the military was content to leave the mountainous Kunar and Nuristan region to insurgents and their Islamist allies. |
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He reached South Georgia, but landed on the wrong side of the island and had to cross 26 miles of mountainous terrain, before reaching a whaling station to raise the alarm. |
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Its habitat is generally upland meadows or woods in mountainous areas. |
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The narrowest piece of land was at Panama, but it was covered in dense, mountainous jungle. |
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The North Slavey inhabited mountainous areas of the Northwest Territories and hunted mainly caribou and buffalo, using bow and arrows, spears, clubs, snares and twisted sinew. |
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If you're interested in Vietnam's geographic and ethnic diversity, go to Sapa, home of the Montagnard minority peoples living on the mountainous border with Laos. |
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The buffet is a mountainous feast of crab, salmon, prawns and beef. |
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In the background is a landscape of forests amid mountainous terrain. |
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Relatively inaccessible, the mountainous country is landlocked, and is surrounded by countries whose interests, at times, have conflicted with those of Afghanistan. |
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A mountainous landlocked country located in south-central Europe, Austria encompasses an area of 32,377 square miles, roughly the size of the state of Maine. |
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Because Afghanistan is a landlocked nation with mountainous terrain and a deteriorated road network, it was apparent that time-sensitive support bad to be transported by air. |
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Centred early yesterday over mountainous south-western Georgia, the storm was expected to weaken to a tropical depression within hours and curve back toward the north-east. |
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The soil is remarkably fertile for being in such a mountainous region. |
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Once trainees understand mountainous terrain and its effects on combat, the next step is to conduct small exercises involving patrolling, raids, and ambushes. |
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The Nagas lived in mountainous north-east India on the Myanmar border. |
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After a bit of deliberation, we squeezed in beside two young women tucking into mountainous Sunday lunches of roast chicken with all the trimmings. |
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Nepal is a mostly mountainous region made up of many small villages. |
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The soils in this mountainous region of Portugal are shallow and stony. |
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These days, you have to be very good indeed, or very lucky, to be pulled out of the mountainous slush piles on the desks of children's publishers. |
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Indigenous to every continent except Antarctica, palms grow in arid deserts and brackish or fresh water swamps, in dry mountainous regions and tropical rain forests. |
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Boundaries have been drawn mostly in the mid-hills and low-lying plains, leaving boundaries in the mountainous areas in both east and west unsurveyed. |
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The island, mountainous and very pretty, features huge banana plantations. |
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On the bike tour through Montana's Glacier Park, for example, you'll average 60 mountainous miles of cycling per day, cycling past glacial snowfields and tumbling waterfalls. |
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As mountainous seas rolled down upon them, smashing over the deck, Halsted left him to it. |
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Almost all the land is mountainous and high above sea level. |
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The landscape is treeless and mountainous, deeply cut with fjords and sounds along whose shores nucleated villages lie surrounded by fields and pastures. |
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They reached South Georgia after 17 days in mountainous seas, but still faced a 22-mile trek across unexplored mountains, glaciers and snowfields to get help. |
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More specifically, the plan trims and restricts some of the more abusive recreational activities in mountainous regions, including skiing, snowmobiling and mountain biking. |
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One of the participants at the imbizo complained that though people had cellular phones in this rural and mountainous area, they could not use them. |
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Traditional alpine plants come from the mountainous regions of the world. |
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The county has some of the most mountainous terrain in the state, including Virginia's highest mountain peaks, which made transportation difficult. |
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Earlier this year, army apaches shot up several convoys that refused to stop while navigating mountainous dunes near the border. |
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But from every side of the peninsula, its crown jewel, the mountainous 900,000 acre Olympic National Park is visible, veined with snow and glacier ice, even in July. |
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The Incas were also adept at engineering bridges over the many rivers and ravines of their mountainous land, as well as causeways over tracts of swampland. |
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The road traverses sandy and stony desert and mountainous terrain. |
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I surfaced after a night dive along the mountainous west coast of Majorca. |
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In December 1944, there was a successful paradrop of commandos in a forested mountainous terrain near Eifel who took control of advantageous grounds and mountain passes. |
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Their course includes two of the highest roads in the world, so it will be a double challenge to cope with the mountainous terrain and the altitude. |
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It is famous for its mountainous debt and its stupendous sales growth. |
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The area encompasses zones of subarctic mountain birch forest in the lowlands, heather and grassland higher up, and mountainous alpine terrain at the highest altitudes. |
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For the adventurous, the area is surrounded by waterfalls, zip lines, and gorgeous mountainous scenery. |
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Many very young people find themselves saddled with mountainous debts. |
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The fact that I was in the clag with a clueless controller in mountainous terrain wasn't helping my blood pressure. |
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It is a plentiful species in mountainous countries, but is rather condimental than nutritive. |
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Currents and awesome wind with floatsome foam and dreg clinging dog paddle through mountainous seas toward safety of shore. |
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Folisols occur commonly in wet mountainous areas of coastal British Columbia. |
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Wales is mostly mountainous, though South Wales is less mountainous than North and mid Wales. |
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The Highlands are generally mountainous and the highest elevations in the British Isles are found here. |
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Wales is a generally mountainous country on the western side of central southern Great Britain. |
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Much of Wales' diverse landscape is mountainous, particularly in the north and central regions. |
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The Lake District, also known as the Lakes or Lakeland, is a mountainous region in North West England. |
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The Lake District's location on the northwest coast of England, coupled with its mountainous geography, makes it the wettest part of England. |
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The landscape becomes higher and more mountainous at the Yorkshire Dales and North Pennines. |
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Cumbria usually experiences the most severe weather, with high precipitation in the mountainous regions of the Lake District and Pennines. |
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They also graze in hilly or mountainous areas where the slopes are not steep. |
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Coal mining takes place in the three mountainous regions at 45 distinct coal beds near Mesozoic basins. |
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He stressed its mountainous frontiers and advocated Lisbon as the main base because the Royal Navy could help to defend it. |
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Since 1947, the unresolved territorial problems with Afghanistan saw border skirmishes which was kept mostly at the mountainous border. |
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Outcroppings of stone, ravines, or hilly or mountainous terrain called for cuttings and tunnels. |
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Many traverse the Mounth, a spur of mountainous land that extends from the higher inland range to the North Sea slightly north of Stonehaven. |
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The rest of the Chinese troops tried to return to Yunnan through remote mountainous forests and out of these, at least half died. |
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While the 11th East Africa Division advanced down the Kabaw Valley from Tamu, the 5th Indian Division advanced along the mountainous Tiddim road. |
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The more rugged Highland region contains the majority of Scotland's mountainous terrain, including the highest peak, Ben Nevis. |
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While the Lowlands are less elevated, upland and mountainous terrain is located across the Southern Uplands. |
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Mull, Skye and Arran are noted for their mountainous terrain, whilst Tiree, Coll and most of the Shetland group are flat or low lying. |
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Wales has a complex geological history which has left it a largely mountainous country. |
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The combination of mountainous areas and Atlantic lows can produce large quantities of rain and sometimes results in flooding. |
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With its mountainous terrain and ample rainfall, water is one of Wales' most abundant resources. |
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While most of the land is either open or mountainous land, there is a significant amount of agricultural activity within the park. |
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Most of the islands, rising steeply from the sea, are rugged and mountainous. |
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The mountainous north is colder and receives snowfall at higher altitudes of Himalayan ranges. |
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The northern plains are delimited in the west by the Scandinavian Mountains and the mountainous parts of the British Isles. |
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The northern mountainous regions have cold winters with occasional heavy snows, sometimes causing extensive flooding. |
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Natural lakes are generally found in mountainous areas, rift zones, and areas with ongoing glaciation. |
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Mostly mountainous, the region arose through faults resulting from the Rift Valley. |
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An alpine country, Liechtenstein is mainly mountainous, making it a winter sport destination. |
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The terrains of Hong Kong are mostly mountainous and many places in the New Territories have limited access to roads. |
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Indeed, he records that many locals regarded the mountainous and wild landscapes as monstrous and ugly rather than romantic or picturesque. |
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The mountainous areas of Wales are suited to sheep farming and this has led to an association of their meat with the country. |
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Further south in Cardiganshire the land is less mountainous, and the River Teifi forms the border with Carmarthenshire for part of its length. |
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It is found mostly in mountainous areas of southern Europe, but extends north into parts of Scandinavia and Britain. |
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Its range includes the more mountainous parts of Western Europe with the exception of northern Scandinavia, southern Spain and western France. |
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It is mostly a woodland species, often living near the forest verge, but in mountainous regions, it occupies any part of the forest. |
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It appears further south in mountainous areas of the Alps, Norway, Scotland, Wales, Iceland, Siberia, and western North America. |
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The northern part of the county is a mountainous area, dissected by deep narrow valleys. |
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In the northern, mountainous parts of the country, there are 400 Zaidi tribes. |
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Much of the motorway network is elevated by columns due to the mountainous terrain of the island. |
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The rally is held on narrow, twisty, sandy and bumpy mountainous roads in the north of the island. |
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Novaya Zemlya is an extension of the Northern part of the Ural Mountains, and the interior is mountainous throughout. |
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Madeira is very mountainous, and building the levadas was difficult and often sentenced criminals or slaves were used. |
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Mainland Spain is a mountainous country, dominated by high plateaus and mountain chains. |
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Unlike some of the other regions of Sweden, the Scanian landscape is generally not mountainous. |
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They are all relatively short, but have a high discharge rate owing to their steep mountainous nature. |
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In Norway, mountainous terrain and fjords formed strong natural boundaries. |
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In this varied, often mountainous terrain, the Mongols were out of their element, and they relied on local mercenaries for support. |
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In the more mountainous and remote areas of the Yukon and BC, working sternwheelers lived on well into the 20th century. |
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West Java is wetter than East Java and mountainous regions receive much higher rainfall. |
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About 73 percent of Japan is forested, mountainous and unsuitable for agricultural, industrial or residential use. |
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In mountainous or hilly districts, where vegetable food is scarce, badgers rely on rabbits as a principal food source. |
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In their natural state they are adapted to mountainous areas with temperate climates. |
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In mountainous areas, heavy precipitation is possible where upslope flow is maximized within windward sides of the terrain at elevation. |
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Many storm fatalities occur in mountainous terrain, when diminishing cyclones unleash their moisture as torrential rainfall. |
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On the coast, mountainous areas provided ample reconnaissance for the corsairs as well. |
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In mountainous regions unsuitable for wheeled vehicles, pack animals continue to transport goods. |
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The North Island is the 14th largest island in the world and is less mountainous but is marked by volcanism. |
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Thus, Lower Saxony is the only Bundesland that encompasses both maritime and mountainous areas. |
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As a result, many Cimbri have left this mountainous region of Italy, effectively forming a worldwide diaspora. |
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The soil is covered with ashes, and black in color as if the mountainous and rocky country was made up of fires. |
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They led to a retreat of a big part of the population to the mountainous areas in Eastern Carpathians and to Transylvania. |
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The more mountainous southern half of the country is far more sparsely populated than the northern half. |
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Eighty percent of Greece consists of mountains or hills, making the country one of the most mountainous in Europe. |
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After a few weeks wandering the mountainous jungle terrain, we gave up our survey and declared the area not plottable. |
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Some people in the mountainous southwest made a living by selling lumber from hard bamboo. |
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The geography of Morocco spans from the Atlantic Ocean, to mountainous areas, to the Sahara desert. |
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Low temperatures in the mountainous areas result in snow cover once every few years. |
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The Kingdom of Asturias was located in the Cantabrian Mountains, a wet and mountainous region in the north of the Iberian Peninsula. |
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The mountainous areas register greater rainfall since they constitute a barrier to the humid wind that comes from the Atlantic. |
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The environment in Mauritius is typically tropical in the coastal regions with forests in the mountainous areas. |
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Humidity is typically higher in the southwest and mountainous areas and depends on the seasonal patterns of rainfall. |
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The island is mostly mountainous, especially in the central and western parts. |
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Despite the relatively small size of the island, its mountainous terrain results in several climatic zones. |
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Being a mountainous country, Iran is a venue for skiing, snowboarding, hiking, rock climbing, and mountain climbing. |
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Hispanization did not spread to the mountainous center of northern Luzon, nor to the inland communities of Mindanao. |
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Most of the mountainous islands are covered in tropical rainforest and volcanic in origin. |
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Mules were used since unpaved roads and mountainous terrain could not generally accommodate carts. |
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The island is mostly mountainous with large coastal areas in the north and south. |
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In addition, a dense network of Protestant villages permeated the rural mountainous region of the Cevennes. |
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Galicia is quite mountainous, a fact which has contributed to isolate the rural areas, hampering communications, most notably in the inland. |
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The more mountainous parts of the provinces of Ourense and Lugo receive significant snowfall during the winter months. |
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The most mountainous region is the Central Highlands area, which covers most of the central western parts of the state. |
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Because of the easy accessibility of the mountains there are no specifically mountainous species. |
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In the mountainous regions of West Papua, sweet potatoes are the staple food among the natives there. |
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This phenomenon is known as the High German consonant shift, because the core group affects the High German dialects in the mountainous south. |
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Large areas of New Guinea are unexplored by scientists and anthropologists due to extensive forestation and mountainous terrain. |
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Sculpture in Oceania first appears on New Guinea as a series of stone figures found throughout the island, but mostly in mountainous highlands. |
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The South Island has 15 named maritime fiords which are all located in the southwest of the island in a mountainous area known as Fiordland. |
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The heavily forested Upper Peninsula is relatively mountainous in the west. |
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The country is mostly savannah, although the moist and mountainous eastern highlands support areas of tropical evergreen and hardwood forests. |
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The Eastern Highlands are a series of mountainous areas near the border with Mozambique. |
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With its mountainous landscape and numerous sandy beaches, Wales attracts significant tourism. |
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Opposition was particularly intense in mountainous regions where good routes were scarce. |
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Travelling between valleys was difficult on foot or by pony because of the steep passes across the mountainous ridges. |
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Cliffs are common on coasts, in mountainous areas, escarpments and along rivers. |
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The rest of Furness is very rural, with the mountainous, wooded and lacustrine environments. |
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Hillwalking is popular in mountainous areas such as the English Peak District or the Scottish Highlands. |
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Other service reservoirs can be almost entirely underground, especially in more hilly or mountainous country. |
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It is low and flat near the North Sea coast and increasingly mountainous toward the northwest. |
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The term highland or uplands is used to denote any mountainous region or elevated mountainous plateau. |
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The most mountainous region of Tasmania is the Central Highlands area, which covers most of the central western parts of the state. |
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Additionally, the mountainous natural region of the Thai highlands is found in Northern Thailand. |
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Black sallee is most common adjacent to creeks and flats in mountainous, tableland country. |
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He was labouring under a pleurisy, which is not unfrequent in the mountainous region, at this season. |
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A deadly mudslide in the mountainous province of Benguet buried gold miners in three work camps. |
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The Santa Anas are strongest in mountainous areas but taper off in strength by the time they reach valleys, Seto said. |
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Mind you, looking at her mountainous back jiggle to the music in that backless dress, it was an easy mistake to make. |
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The epicentre of the quake was 111 km southwest of Karakul, the USGS said, a sparsely populated mountainous area. |
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The Lieserschulucht road bridge carries the main motorway from northern Europe to Italy over a river in mountainous Carinthia. |
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Landslides in mountainous areas and flooding in the southern plains are common during the monsoon season. |
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Crews were combing the wooded, mountainous terrain, hampered by swarming mosquitoes, soupy humidity and mud. |
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Hemicryptophytes life form, of temperate regions, Therophytes index arid areas and mountainous areas is Chamaephytes index. |
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To get to Alishan, take the High Speed Rail to Chiayi, then a two-hour scenic drive up the mountainous road, where buses and taxis ply. |
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Some, such as Skye and Mull are mountainous, while others like Tiree and Sanday are relatively low lying. |
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Now even his mountainous funeral is creeping into the remorseless past. |
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Tinkoff-Saxo's attempt to bring Alberto back in the peloton was made difficult by the mountainous terrain and the high speed up front. |
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Sheth had to start from way up in a mountainous area and travel on foot all the way down to the bottom undetected by other students of her dojo. |
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It's home to some of the UK's rarest birds and to the egger its mountainous and remote terrain is suitably challenging. |
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From the mountainous fog forests of Colombia, Peru and Costa Rica comes a group of orchids known as the Masdevallias. |
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He believed the same group of more than 20 gunmen was responsible for both attacks in Tinggi Nambut, a village in the mountainous district of Puncak Jaya. |
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Vegetables like cucumber, eggfruit and capsicum, which were not grown in this region before, are now a common sight in the marketplaces of the mountainous region. |
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Western areas can be mountainous and rocky with green panoramic vistas. |
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The CMON initiative seeks to implement advanced open access telecommunication solutions across a mountainous, rural region of approximately 80,000 kms. |
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The Outback Mountainboard allows riders to negotiate mountainous trails, and most other terrains, including the rider's neighborhood and backyard. |
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It said government restrictions had prevented humanitarian workers from accessing the mountainous Jebel Marra region in central Darfur where a rebellion began 11 years ago. |
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The Perlan 2 is a pressurized sailplane designed to ride air currents that, in certain mountainous regions near the north and south poles, can reach into the stratosphere. |
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The attack came as government troops stepped up a search and destruction operation directed at a rebel shelter in Lisne in the mountainous district, the ministry said. |
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Although settlers from China took over the western plains, Qing administrators forbade settlers from entering the mountainous territories of the Austronesians. |
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However, in the mountainous regions, in Rajasthan's Thar desert and in the Rann of Kutch in western India, the donkeys are still a popular mode of transportation. |
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The Warlis or Varlis are an indigenous tribe or Adivasis, living in the mountainous as well as coastal areas along the Maharashtra-Gujarat border. |
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It wants posts in the mountainous northern Shkodra region equipped with solar panels serving as back-up electricity generators to deal with common power cuts. |
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Probably the most known highlands in the anglosphere are the Scottish Highlands in northern Scotland, the mountainous region north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault. |
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They are found throughout the more mountainous areas of Great Britain, but particularly in the Yorkshire Dales, County Durham, and around the pennine fells of Cumbria. |
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Albania, a name not native to the region known as the country of Albania, has been used as a name for a number of mountainous areas across Europe. |
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Lesotho flora is Alpine, due to the high and mountainous terrain. |
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