The island is mountainous, the highest summit being the Beerenberg volcano in the north.

This is also the highest point of the mountain range.

Maria Island is a mountainous island off the east coast of Tasmania.

Geography The northern part of the county is a mountain area with large forests , the Mecsek Mountains.

It is a continual range of highlands along the western coast of South America.

It is extremely mountainous, covering a large part of the Dolomites and the southern Alps.

The terrain is mostly mountainous and flat, with fast flowing rivers and few forests but with many trees.

The 70 of the country that is mountainous is rugged and often inaccessible from the outside.

The Andes is long and is often considered the world's longest mountain system.

The Kunlun Mountains (, ) are one of the longest mountain chains in Asia, extending more than .

When violent extremists operate in one stretch of mountains, people are endangered across an ocean.

Only a small area in the mountainous north west of the peninsula managed to resist the initial invasion.

Wales is mostly mountainous, though South Wales is less mountainous than North and mid Wales.

The northern part of the island is a high coralline limestone plateau and the southern region is mountainous.

Like an off road rally through a mountainous desert, it promises excitement and fierce competition.

The mountains of each site represent important mountainous backdrops to the established and developed lowlands of Sumatra.

The Council first converged in Koryschades, a mountain village of Evrytania, from 14 to 27 May 1944.

Anin is a small mountain village in the north of the West Bank with a population of 3,500.

The Olympic Mountains are a mountain range on the Olympic Peninsula of western Washington in the United States.

Together these eruptions have helped create the eastern part of the Snake River Plain from a once mountainous region.

1369 m.) is a high mountain pass in the Alps between the canton of Valais in Switzerland and France.

Mount Logan is the highest mountain in Canada and the second highest peak in North America, after Mount McKinley (Denali).

I remember a year spent in a mountainous Beirut suburb, away from school and from an apartment untenably close to the Green Line.

The Tibesti Mountains are a mountain range in the central Sahara, primarily located in the extreme north of Chad, with a small extension into southern Libya.

It comprises the regions between the Jura and the Alps, partly flat but mostly hilly, and lies at an average height between 400 and 700 m AMSL.

In the northern areas of the country heavy snowfalls led to avalanches that left several mountain villages and a total of 140,000 persons isolated.

Most of the island is hilly, except for the narrow coast and a plain in the southwestern part it is therefore also called locally as island of 99 hills .

Plot A couple, David (Luke Wilson) and Amy Fox (Kate Beckinsale) take a wrong turn on a remote mountain road.

Communities living in mountainous areas, such as in the Andes, or Central Asia, or the highlands of East Africa, are especially isolated.

Trentino has an area of 6,207 km2, most of it mountainous land (20 is over and 70 over 1,000 m) and covered by vast forests (50 of the territory).

It is a mountainous, midland province with a natural land area of 3534.45 square kilometres and a population of 1,149,100 as of 2008.

The Sierra Nevada ( or , , snowy range ) is a mountain range in the western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Basin and Range Province.

Sendero, which supplemented its income with drug production and timber smuggling, deliberately chose drought weakened and deforested mountain villages as the stronghold of its insurgency.

That being said, a high level of external debt is one of the barriers impeding efforts towards sustainable development in our Republic, where 94 per cent of the territory is mountainous.

In Sri Lanka the practice of building houses with aluminum roofs on mountain tops and without earth terminals attracts lightning and causing loss of human lives and damage to properties.

My own epiphany as a conservationist came in 1953, while a Harvard graduate student, searching for rare ants found in the mountain forests of Cuba, ants that shine in the sunlight metallic green or metallic blue, according to species, and one species, I discovered, metallic gold.

The new kit labelled A creative approach to environmental education in drylands and highlands will be targeted at primary and secondary schools in dryland and mountainous countries.

Since my mother and father married in 1982 and chose Akka to be their home (the birthplace of my father and his first love with the permission of my mother), my mother has dreamt, and still is dreaming, of a small house in a mountain village with a garden in whose soil she grows the plants, vegetables, fruits and flowers she wishes.

Like an off road rally through a mountainous desert, it promises excitement and fierce competition. However, the unintended consequence of more haste will often be less speed, and many will crash along the way.