The province's mainland away from the coastal regions is not as moderated by the Pacific Ocean and ranges from desert and semi-arid plateau to the range and canyon districts of the Central and Southern Interior to boreal forest and sub-arctic prairie in the Northern Interior.

A few Southern Interior valleys have short cold winters with infrequent heavy snow, while those in the Cariboo, the southern part of the Central Interior, are colder because of their altitude and latitude, but without the intensity or duration experienced at similar latitudes elsewhere in Canada.

On the opposite extreme, summers in the Southern Interior valleys are hot ; for example in Osoyoos the July Maximum averages, hot weather sometimes moves towards the Coast or to the far north of the province.

The island is physio-graphically part of Southern Ontario, an " eastward extension of the Interior Plains, a region characterized by low relief and sedimentary underpinnings ".

The Kettle Valley Railroad was built out of necessity to service the growing mining demands in the Southern Interior region of British Columbia.

This selected routing was significantly North of the mining towns within Southern Interior.

's Southern Interior, and essentially took control of the region.

Once word caught on, British Columbia's Southern Interior essentially became a commercial annex of the United States.

The competition between the KVR and the VV & E during constructions of both railways was intense and resulted in many areas within the Southern Interior being serviced by two railways, when one would have been sufficient.

Finished goods were primarily brought into the Southern Interior on trains heading Eastbound.

In 1833 he published his Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831, of which a second edition appeared in 1834.

The Interior Plains are an extensive physiographic division encompassing 8 distinct physiographic provinces, the Interior Low Plateaus, Great Plains, Central Lowland, Mackenzie Delta, Manitoba Lowlands, Northern Boreal Plains, Prairie Grassland and the Southern Boreal Plains and Plateaux '.

* Black Mountain, a summit west of the south end of Shuswap Lake in the Southern Interior of British Columbia

A few Pages from the Diary of Emil Holub, M. D., written during His third Trip into the Interior of Southern Africa ( Grahamstown: no publisher, reprinted Bulawayo: Books of Zimbabwe 2004 )

He described his journey in Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa, a two-volume work appearing in 1822 and 1824, since reprinted in 1967 by C. Struik of Cape Town.

* Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa ( 2 vols.

The location has been inhabited by the Nlaka ' pamux people for over 10, 000 years, and is one of the earliest locations settled by non-natives in the Southern Interior of British Columbia, having been founded during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush of 1858 – 59, when it was originally known as " The Forks ".

Oliver is a community at the south end of the Okanagan Valley in the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada, with a population of around 4370.

The Governor of the Southern Governorate is Shaikh Abdullah Bin Rashid Al Khalifa, the son of The Minister of Interior H. E.

In this year he published his Memoirs of the Kings of France of the Race of Valois, to which he appended an account of his tour in the Western, Southern and Interior Provinces of France.

* Gates Lake or Summit Lake, Southern Interior of British Columbia.

The relief of Southern Ural is more complex, with numerous valleys and parallel ridges directed south-west and meridionally.

* Southern Scots – mid and east Dumfriesshire and the Scottish Borders counties Selkirkshire and Roxburghshire, in particular the valleys of the Annan, the Esk, the Liddel Water, the Teviot and the Yarrow Water.

Urban Southern California intersperses the valleys between the Santa Susana Mountains, Santa Monica Mountains and San Gabriel Mountains, which range from the Pacific Coast, eastward over, to the San Bernardino Mountains, north of San Bernardino.

Southern Oregon is higher, and its climate is often warmer, than better known wine producing valleys such as Napa Valley to the south and Willamette Valley and Columbia Valley to the north.

The Sami culture is the original culture ; however, in the 19th century, settlers came from Finland and from the valleys of Southern Norway to establish themselves.

Most of Fiordland is dominated by the steep sides of the snow-capped Southern Alps, deep lakes and its ocean-flooded, steep western valleys.

The Podolian Upland, an elongated, up to high plateau stretches from the Western and Southern Bug rivers to the Dniester, includes hill countries and mountainous regions with canyon-like fluvial valleys.

Some Apacheans were employed in migrant farm labor and relocated to the central agricultural regions of Southern California, such as the Coachella, Imperial and Colorado River valleys, where now tens of thousands of Apacheans live.

The San Gabriel Valley is one of the principal valleys of Southern California, United States.

Fiordland's coast is steep and crenellated, with the fiords running from the valleys of the southern ranges of the Southern Alps, such as the Kepler and Murchison Mountains.

The Governor Edmund G. Brown California Aqueduct is a system of canals, tunnels, and pipelines that conveys water collected from the Sierra Nevada Mountains and valleys of Northern-and Central California to Southern California.

The headwaters are in Mount Aspiring National Park, on the eastern flanks of the Southern Alps near Haast Pass, which is the saddle between the Makarora and Haast River valleys.

Written sources of Paleo-Anthropological material collected from Kurgans in Southern Kazakhstan show the existence of close ties between Taraz and the Kypchaks, Qarluq populations of nearby valleys.

Most of the county is located on the Southern Highland Rim, an area of hills, ridges, and narrow stream valleys that is largely underlain by Paleozoic limestone.

The Southern Appalachian spruce-fir forest which covers Clingmans Dome occurs only at the highest elevations in the southeastern United States, and has more in common with forests at northern latitudes than with the forests in the adjacent valleys.

Glaciers spread from the Southern Alps carving valleys and making fiords in the South Island. The land bridge is submerged around 9, 700 BCE

Northern China is too cold and dry for rice cultivation ( though rice is grown there today with the aid of modern technology ) and consists largely of flat plains, grasslands, and desert ; while Southern China is warm and rainy enough for rice and consists of lush mountains cut by river valleys.

:“ Southern California was, by the reports of those who lived there at the turn of the century, beautiful ; there were live oaks on the hills, orchards across the valleys, and ornamental cypress, palms, and eucalyptus lining the roads.

The three regions of Western, Eastern and Southern Asia developed in a similar manner with each of the three regions developing early civilizations around fertile river valleys.

Fagernes Airport, Leirin () serves Fagernes and the surrounding valleys of Valdres, Hallingdal and Gudbrandsdal in Southern Norway, from Oslo.

The northern portion of the district is bounded by the plain of Ri-Bhoi District gradually rising to the rolling grasslands of the Shillong plateau interspersed with river valleys, then falls sharply in the Southern portion forming a deep gorges and ravines in Mawsynram and Shella-Bholaganj, community and rural development block, bordering Bangladesh.

Being positioned on the Southern edge of the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty as well as at the junction of several river valleys, Whitchurch has many opportunities for cycling, both strenuous and sedate, on-road and off.