The only natural World Heritage Sites is the Tassili n ' Ajjer, a mountain range.

The principal feature of the bathymetry ( bottom topography ) is a submarine mountain range called the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

** Anti-Atlas, a mountain range in Morocco

** High Atlas, a mountain range in Morocco, contains the highest point in the Atlas Mountains

** Middle Atlas, a mountain range in Northern Morocco

** Saharan Atlas, a mountain range in Algeria

** Tell Atlas, the Atlas mountain range that parallels the Mediterranean coast

The group is named after the Altai Mountains, a mountain range in Central Asia.

The Alps, one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretch approximately across eight Alpine countries from Austria and Slovenia in the east, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Germany, France to the west and Italy and Monaco to the south.

landlocked in the Lesser Caucasus Mountains ; Sevana Lich ( Lake Sevan ) is the largest lake in this mountain range

This list contains some of the major peaks in the Andes mountain range.

Adiabatic heating also occurs in the Earth's atmosphere when an air mass descends, for example, in a katabatic wind or Foehn or chinook wind flowing downhill over a mountain range.

On the border of Sweden is a mountain range running from northeast to southwest.

* 1942 – World War II: The flag of Nazi Germany is installed atop the Mount Elbrus, the highest peak of the Caucasus mountain range.

Apart from the lowlands and the Atlas mountain range, the continent may be divided into two regions of higher and lower plateaus, the dividing line ( somewhat concave to the north-west ) running from the middle of the Red Sea to about 6 deg.

His march northward through the Alps was interrupted by Rudolph, King of Transjurane Burgundy, and it was only with great difficulty that Arnulf crossed the mountain range.

The Black Forest (, ) is a wooded mountain range in Baden-Württemberg, southwestern Germany.

His successor, Marcus Licinius Lucullus ( brother of the famous Lucius Lucullus ), campaigned against the Thracian Bessi tribe and the Moesi, ravaging the whole of Moesia, the region between the Haemus ( Balkan ) mountain range and the Danube.

Barcelona is located on the northeast coast of the Iberian Peninsula, facing the Mediterranean Sea, on a plain approximately wide limited by the mountain range of Collserola, the Llobregat river to the southwest and the Besòs river to the north.

* The Remarkables, New Zealand – mountain range containing a peak also called Ben Nevis.

Western Khmer, also called Cardamom Khmer or Chanthaburi Khmer, spoken by a very small, isolated population in the Cardamom mountain range extending from western Cambodia into eastern Central Thailand, although little studied, is unique in that it maintains a definite system of vocal register that has all but disappeared in other dialects of modern Khmer.

* Conical Range, a small mountain range in southwestern British Columbia, Canada, between Seymour Inlet and Belize Inlet

The highest mountain in Cambodia -- Phnom Aural, at 1, 771 meters — is in the eastern part of this range.

The country's highest peaks lie in this mountain range: the Cerro Chirripó and the Cerro Kamuk.

The most important edifice on the A1 is the Sveti Rok Tunnel ( 5. 687 m ), which goes through the famous Velebit mountain range barrier.

Haymaking is an important farming activity in mountain villages which has become somewhat mechanized recent years, although the slopes are so steep that usually scythes are necessary to cut the grass.

If one looks at the fields around the Deserted Village and right up the mountain, one can see the tracks in the fields of ' lazy beds ', which is the way crops like potatoes were grown.

A common theme is a mountain which blocked the Sun, but on the right day would allow the tiniest fraction to re-emerge on the other side for a ' double sunset '.

He takes names in connection with his funerary role, such as He who is upon his mountain, which underscores his importance as a protector of the deceased and their tombs, and the title He who is in the place of embalming, associating him with the process of mummification.

The path continues to ascend, and the side of the ravine, on which it runs, becomes steeper, until a cave is reached above which the mountain now rises almost perpendicularly ; while on the right, it strikes in a rapid descent down to where, in St Benedict's day, below, lay the blue waters of the lake.

While the town's name is generally seen as a diminutive form of Barcelona in Spain, Albert Dauzat and Charles Rostaing point out an earlier attestation of the name Barcilona in Barcelonnette in around 1200, and suggest that it is derived instead from two earlier stems signifying a mountain, * bar and * cin ( the latter of which is also seen in the name of Mont Cenis ).

Another common aspect of the festival in early 20th century Ireland was the hanging of May Boughs on the doors and windows of houses and the making of May Bushes in farmyards, which usually consisted either of a branch of rowan / caorthann ( mountain ash ) or more commonly whitethorn / sceach geal ( hawthorn ) which is in bloom at the time and is commonly called the ' May Bush ' or just ' May ' in both Ireland and Britain.

But they were surprised in the rear by a second force of Dardani which had approached their camp stealthily by mountain paths and proceeded to storm and ransack it.

The bongo belongs to the genus Tragelaphus, which includes the sitatunga ( Tragelaphus spekeii ), the nyala ( Tragelaphus angasii ), the bushbuck ( Tragelaphus scriptus ), the mountain nyala ( Tragelaphus buxtoni ), the Lesser Kudu ( Tragelaphus imberbis ) and the greater kudu ( Tragelaphus strepsiceros ).

" Horn in the West ", a dramatization of the life and times of the early settlers of the mountain area, which features Daniel Boone as one of its characters, has been performed in an outdoor amphitheatre above the town every summer since 1952.

Ben Nevis in Svalbard is a 922 metre-high mountain south of the head of Raudfjorden, Albert I Land, which was named after the Scottish hill.

The most modern, and at the same time the longest Croatian tunnel, is also along the A1: the Mala Kapela Tunnel ( length 5, 780 m ), which passes through the Mala Kapela mountain range.

The island is dominated by two mountain ranges, the Troodos Mountains and the Kyrenia Mountains, and the central plain, the Mesaoria, which is between them.

The two mountain ranges run generally parallel to the Taurus Mountains on the Turkish mainland, the outlines of which are visible from northern Cyprus.

The northern portion of Cape Breton Island is dominated by the Cape Breton Highlands, commonly shortened to simply the " Highlands ", which are an extension of the Appalachian mountain chain.

Many road bikes along with mountain bikes include clipless pedals to which special shoes attach, via a cleat, permitting the rider to pull on the pedals as well as push.

The mountain systems include: the southeastern Transverse Ranges ( the San Bernardino and San Gabriel Mountains ) in the Mojave Desert north and northeast of the Los Angeles basin and Inland Empire ; and the northern Peninsular Ranges ( San Jacinto, Santa Rosa, and Laguna Mountains ), which separate the Colorado Desert ( western Sonoran Desert ) from lower coastal Southern California.

Many mythologies involve a " world center ", which is often the sacred place of creation ; this center often takes the form of a tree, mountain, or other upright object, which serves as an axis mundi or axle of the world.

Several east-west trending mountain spurs extend to the narrow coastal plain, which is studded with sea cliffs and has level stretches no wider than.

Druze villages spread and prospered in that region, which under Ma ' an leadership so flourished that it acquired the generic term of Jabal Bayt-Ma ' an ( the mountain of the Ma ' an family ) or Jabal al-Druze.

* Appalachian dulcimer, a fretted, plucked musical instrument which is also referred to as a " mountain dulcimer ", " lap dulcimer ", " fretted dulcimer ", or " hog fiddle "