Before this, scientists believe, Antarctica looked more like Alaska or the Alps, consisting of a range of glacier-capped mountains.
Tourists who visit the area must follow a narrow road through sage and cactus range that runs for miles toward a line of soft mountains in the east and south.
The Indian soldiers were air dropped by an army helicopter into a pine forest near the Pirpanchal range of mountains, police said.
But my favorite cartographic error is the Mountains of Kong, a range that supposedly stretched like a belt from the west coast of Africa through half the continent.
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He finally visited Indian Ovens in March after getting permission from the 84-year-old woman who owns the site at the northern end of the Taconic Mountains, a range running along the New York-New England border from northwest Connecticut to southern Vermont.
Mountains in the countries are the remains of a range that traversed part of the supercontinent of Pangaea some 300 million years ago, before it broke up.
The Hills in Arrowtown, which recently hosted the Pro-Am Championship, is a spectacular spot surrounded by the barrenness of the Remarkables Mountains and the Crown Range peaks.
The aircraft collided in a remote portion of the Yuma Training Range Complex on the California side of the Chocolate Mountains very close to the Arizona border, Ms. Dooley said.
Mountains are at the same time social and political arenas with a wide range of management arrangements, including private property, traditional common property regions, national scale parks and reserves, and international treaties, all embedded within a rapidly changing global economic context that can create tensions between local mountain residents and distant users of mountain resources.
If the president cannot wield some clout in a conservative state within easy range of the White House, the Republicans have a problem that stretches much farther than the Blue Ridge Mountains.
And sat atop the range like a rocky prong is the peak of Naranjo de Bulnes, its shape more akin to the mountains in the windy wilds of Patagonia than the northern coast of Spain.
Part of the European E90 highway system that stretches from Istanbul to Italy (via a Greek ferry from Igoumenitsa), the road proved devilishly complex to build due to the mountains of the Pindos range in Epiros.
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