The Egyptians, Plato asserted, described Atlantis as an island comprising mostly mountains in the northern portions and along the shore, and encompassing a great plain of an oblong shape in the south " extending in one direction three thousand stadia 555 km ; 345 mi, but across the center inland it was two thousand stadia 370 km ; 230 mi.

Situated at the confluence of a tributary stream, the Gavenny, and the River Usk, it is almost surrounded by two mountains – the Blorenge ( 559 m ) and the Sugar Loaf ( 596 m ) – and five hills: Ysgyryd Fawr ( The Skirrid ), Ysgyryd Fach ( Skirrid Fach ), Deri, Rholben and Mynydd Llanwenarth, known locally as " Llanwenarth Breast ".

Enfide, which the tradition of Subiaco identifies with the modern Affile, is in the Simbruini mountains, about forty miles from Rome and two from Subiaco.

A plateau averaging 600 to 700 meters high connects the two mountains.

The College also maintains the Dartmouth Skiway, a skiing facility located over two mountains near the Hanover campus in Lyme Center, New Hampshire that serves as the winter practice grounds for the nationally dominant Dartmouth ski team.

Most of the resistance activity had until then taken place on the west side of the Green Mountains ; on March 13, a small riot in the shire town of Westminster, on the east side of the mountains, resulted in the death of two men.

* 2010 – A freak storm in the Hindukush mountains of Afghanistan triggers a series of at least 36 avalanches, burying over two miles of road, killing at least 172 people and trapping over 2, 000 travelers.

For two years his brother and he lived as fugitives in the mountains of the Cévennes, but they at last reached Geneva, where their mother afterwards joined them on escaping from the imprisonment in which she was held from the time of their flight.

During his honeymoon in the Harz mountains, Cantor spent much time in mathematical discussions with Richard Dedekind, whom he had met two years earlier while on Swiss holiday.

The Great Rift Valley as originally described was thought to extend from Lebanon in the north to Mozambique in the south, and constitutes one of two distinct physiographic provinces of the East African mountains.

As Teshub he was depicted as a bearded man astride two mountains and bearing a club.

These mountains are recognised by biogeographers as the boundary between two of the Earth's great ecozones: the temperate Palearctic that covers most of Eurasia and the tropical and subtropical Indomalaya ecozone which includes the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia and Indonesia.

A long chain of mountains runs down the middle of the archipelago, dividing it into two halves, the " face ," fronting on the Pacific Ocean, and the " back ," toward the Sea of Japan.

Central and Western Kenya is characterized by the Kenyan Rift Valley home to two of Africa's highest mountains, Mount Kenya and Mount Elgon. The Kakamega Forest in western Kenya is relic of an East African rainforest.

The two visited the mountains of Scotland together, and found in different locations clear evidence of ancient glacial action.

The two states share plenty of similarities in terrain, with both having plains, mountains, basins, mesas, and desert lands.

In Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus crawls beneath two shoots of olive that grow from a single stock, and in the Iliad, ( XVII. 53ff ) is a metaphoric description of a lone olive tree in the mountains, by a spring ; the Greeks observed that the olive rarely thrives at a distance from the sea, which in Greece invariably means up mountain slopes.

In a valley, a plain is enclosed on two sides but in other cases a plain may be delineated by a complete or partial ring of hills, by mountains or cliffs.

These Saharan mountains are home to two distinct ecoregions ; the West Saharan montane xeric woodlands in the Ahaggar, Tassili n ' Ajjer, Aïr, and other ranges in the western and central Sahara, and the Tibesti-Jebel Uweinat montane xeric woodlands in the Tibesti and Jebel Uweinat of the eastern Sahara.

Off the east end of Upolu are the Aleipata Islands, small uninhabited islets ; The terrain of the two main islands are narrow coastal plains with volcanic, rocky, rugged mountains in interior

The terrain of the two republics is extremely varied, with much of Serbia comprising plains and low hills ( except in the more mountainous region of Kosovo and Metohija ) and much of Montenegro consisting of high mountains.

The two mountains were used to symbolize the significance of the commandments and serve as a warning to whoever disobeyed them ( Deut.

Early adherents of the Kabbalah portray Solomon as having sailed through the air on a throne of light placed on an eagle, which brought him near the heavenly gates as well as to the dark mountains behind which the fallen angels Uzza and Azzazel were chained ; the eagle would rest on the chains, and Solomon, using the magic ring, would compel the two angels to reveal every mystery he desired to know.

Also, the two mountains which form the entrance to Kukuana Land ( where the mines are located in the novel ) are referred to as ' Sheba's Breasts ' which could well be an allusion to the Queen of Sheba, with whom King Solomon had a relationship ; or alternatively Solomon's mother, who was named Bathsheba.

Given India's historic position that the original intent of the line was to separate the two nations by the highest mountains in the world, in these locations India extended its forward posts northward to the ridges, regarding this move as compliant with the original border proposal, although the Simla Convention did not explicitly state this intention.

Spofforth went on to devastate the English batting, taking his final four wickets for only two runs to leave England just eight runs short of victory in one of the closest and most nail-biting finishes in the history of cricket.

After each competitor has delivered all of their bowls ( four each in singles and pairs, three each in triples, and two bowls each in fours ), the distance of the closest bowls to the jack is determined ( the jack may have been displaced ) and points, called " shots ", are awarded for each bowl which a competitor has closer than the opponent's nearest to the jack.

In singles, two people play against each other and the first to win to either 21, 25 or 31 shots ( how many bowls of ones are closest to the jack or kitty are shots ).

Issuing the Balfour Declaration would appeal to Woodrow Wilson ’ s two closest advisors, who were avid Zionists.

* The knight moves to any of the closest squares that are not on the same rank, file, or diagonal, thus the move forms an " L "- shape: two squares vertically and one square horizontally, or two squares horizontally and one square vertically.

The two stars will be closest between 2043 and 2050, when they will require a telescope with larger aperture to split.

The closest school was about two miles ( 3 km ) away and Barks had to walk that distance every day.

Its closest genetic relative was the also extinct Rodrigues Solitaire, the two forming the subfamily Raphinae of the family of pigeons and doves.

His closest advisors formed two factions, setting the framework for the future First Party System.

* The Gentleman From Angell Street: Memories of H. P. Lovecraft ( ISBN 978-0-9701699-1-4 ), written by Muriel and C. M. Eddy, Jr. is a collection of personal remembrances and anecdotes from two of Lovecraft's closest friends in Providence.

The points on the two branches that are closest to each other are called the vertices ; they are the points where the curve has its smallest radius of curvature.

There are two railway stations, Hoek van Holland Strand, which is at the end of the line and closest to the beach and Hoek van Holland Haven, which is close to the town centre, adjacent to the ferry terminal and the small harbour, the Berghaven.

Many episodes in the Wimsey books express a mild satire of the British class system, in particular in depicting the relationship between Wimsey and Bunter, the two of them clearly being the best and closest of friends, yet Bunter invariably punctilious in using " my lord " even when they are alone, and " his lordship " in company.

There are two portions of Manichaean scriptures that are probably the closest thing to the original Manichaean writings in their original languages that will ever be available.

With a four-rank board, players control an inner row and an outer row, and a player's seeds will remain in these closest two rows unless the opponent captured them.

As two objects orbit each other, the periapsis is that point at which the two objects are closest to each other and the apoapsis is that point at which they are the farthest from each other.

The closest open clusters can have their distance measured directly by one of two methods.

These languages are Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Faroese, and Icelandic, with the latter two being closest to Old Norse.

It was closest to the pole in 2787 BC, when it was less than two and a half arc-minutes away from the pole.

The center cup usually also has the responsibility to call out which of the two sides should mark the thrower, usually the defender closest to the sideline of the field.

Versailles is also served by two other stations on Paris RER line C: Versailles – Rive Gauche ( the closest station to the Palace of Versailles and consequently the station most frequently used by tourists ) and Porchefontaine.

If there are more than two points that are 1 / e < sup > 2 </ sup > times the maximum value, then the two points closest to the maximum are chosen.