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Meanings of great plateau in English

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Usage of great plateau in English
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The great plateau is broken into two by the Hindu-Kush range.
Outlines of Universal History, Designed as a Text-book and for P...
2
The two largest islands of New Zealand form a great plateau.
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
3
She has lifted the earth's crust to form a great plateau.
The Western United States: A Geographical Reader
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It sat upon a great plateau with the jungle grown thick at its base.
Magic Kingdom for Sale - SOLD!
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There were great plateau uplands, one of which rose seemingly thousands of feet over us.
The White Invaders
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Their country lies somewhat to the northwest of the great plateau in the centre of Iberia.
The Young Carthaginian: A Story of The Times of Hannibal
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There was a great plateau of ground on the north side of the city, beyond the North Loch.
James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography
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As we went along more and more headlands of the great plateau appeared before us to the west.
Across Unknown South America
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Some of the plains of the great plateau range from fifteen to eighteen thousand feet above sea level.
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
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Above Fort Wingate there is a great plateau; below, there stretches a vast desert plain with mesas and buttes.
Canyons of the Colorado
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Mountains, Piñal Mountains, Sierra Calitro, etc., but they all rise to the summit of the same great plateau region.
Canyons of the Colorado
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We passed over the great plateau, which even at this latitude was sprinkled generously with beautiful small wild flowers.
American Big Game in Its Haunts: The Book of the Boone and Crock...
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Yes, now we were certain that it was indeed the great plateau and nothing else that we saw before us.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition...
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I am confident that the Pole lies on the great plateau we have discovered miles and miles from any outstanding land.
A Book of Discovery / The History of the World's Exploration, Fr...
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He knew history well, and how it would repeat itself on the great plateau and amid the giant forests of the Oregon.
The Log School-House on the Columbia
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Away we gallop, my Indian companion and I, over the country toward a great plateau which we can see in the distance.
Canyons of the Colorado
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