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Map of the Great Rift Valley. The Great Rift Valley (Swahili: Bonde la ufa) is a series of contiguous geographic depressions, approximately 6,000 or 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) in total length, the definition varying between sources, that runs from the southern Turkish Hatay Province in Asia, through the Red Sea, to Mozambique in Southeast Africa.
GREAT PLAINS (59A: North American expanse once home to over 30 Native tribes) and OSAGE (52D: Native Missourians) The GREAT PLAINS is a flatland that stretches across the Central United States and ...
All members of the "Big Five" – lions, African leopards, African bush elephants, African buffaloes, black and white rhinos – are found all year round. The Maasai Mara is the only protected area in Kenya with an indigenous black rhino population unaffected by translocations. [9]
East African Rift Valley, Kenya ISS 2012. Lake Turkana, at the northern end of the rift, is 250 kilometres (160 mi) long, between 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) and 30 kilometres (19 mi) wide and is 125 metres (410 ft) at its greatest depth. [13] Most of the other lakes are shallow and poorly drained, and therefore have become alkaline.
Barreiro da Faneca – clayey expanse in the Azores. Błędowska Desert – area of sands in Poland. The Burren – limestone karst in County Clare, Republic of Ireland. Carcross Desert – sand-dune system in Yukon, Canada. Chara Sands – region of Siberia, Russia. Deliblatska Peščara – sand expanse in Vojvodina, Serbia.
Most of the Afrotropical realm, except for Africa's southern tip, has a tropical climate. A broad belt of deserts, including the Atlantic and Sahara deserts of northern Africa and the Arabian Desert of the Arabian Peninsula, separates the Afrotropic from the Palearctic realm, which includes northern Africa and temperate Eurasia.
This list of isthmuses is an appendix to the article isthmus.The list is sorted by the region of the world in which the isthmus is located. An isthmus (/ ˈ ɪ s θ m ə s / or / ˈ ɪ s m ə s /; plural: isthmuses, or occasionally isthmi; from Ancient Greek: ἰσθμός, romanized: isthmos, lit.
The South African plateau is connected towards East African plateau, with probably a slightly greater average elevation, and marked by some distinct features. It is formed by a widening out of the eastern axis of high ground, which becomes subdivided into a number of zones running north and south and consisting in turn of ranges, tablelands and ...