They were the top land predators, sometimes reaching several meters in length, preying on the large insects of the period and many types of fish in the water.

Skilled, intensive gardening can support an adult from as little as 100 square meters of land per person,

For example, on the Madagascar high central plateau, comprising approximately ten percent of that country's land area, virtually the entire landscape is sterile of vegetation, with gully erosive furrows typically in excess of 50 meters deep and one kilometer wide.

Dartmouth College was established in 1769 beside the Common at a village called the Plain — an extensive and level tract of land a mile ( 1. 6 kilometers ) from the Connecticut River, and about 150 feet ( 46 meters ) above it.

Two inlets, Elphinstone ( Khawr ash Shamm ) and Malcom ( Ghubbat al Ghazirah ), cleave the coastline about one third of the distance from the Strait of Hormuz and at one point are separated by only a few hundred meters of land.

The Tebicuary River ( Río Tebicuary )— a major tributary of the Río Paraguay — bisects the swampy lowland, which is broken in its central portion by rounded swells of land up to three meters in height.

The land descends from the Central Highlands to a series of escarpments and ledges at 400 to 500 meters above sea level before sloping down toward the coastal plains.

Nearly 85 % of the land is at an elevation of at least 450 meters ; the average and median altitude of the country is 1, 332 and 1, 128 meters, respectively.

The total area of the land grants to the Union Pacific and Central Pacific was even larger than the area of the state of Texas: federal government land grants totaled about 5, 261, 000, 000 square meters and state government land grants totaled about 1, 983, 000, 000 square meters.

The tide-related sea level variations result in a local phenomenon ( a " Moses Miracle ") when a land pass 2. 9 km long and 10 – 40 meters wide opens for an hour between the Jindo and Modo islands.

As of June 2011, Jindal has invested only US $ 20 million on the project due to considerable delay by Bolivian authorities in issuing land for the project and due to inability of the Bolivian government to commit 8 million cubic meters of natural gas per day for the power plant and ore smelting process.

In France, living in a trailer or mobile home for more than three months is prohibited by law, even if the resident owns the land, however, building requirements and permissions for self building of recreational solid ( static ) country cottages are more relaxed in France if one stays within a certain amount of square meters.

The lowest land point of the Federal Republic of Germany at 3, 54 meters below sea level is located near the city of Wilster.

In the late Middle Ages, large tracks of land around Bodegraven were prepared for cultivation by digging division ditches ( kavelsloten ) perpendicular to the rivers ( such as Oude Rijn, Meije, and Oude Bodegrave ) between land parcels and then ditches cross-wise some 1250 meters ( 4100 ft ) from and parallel to the rivers ( achtersloten ).

Due to post-glacial rebound, this is now dry land, reaching 120 meters above sea level today in Saltdal, 100 m in Narvik and Brønnøysund, and 30 – 50 m in Lofoten and Vesterålen.

The river correction put an end to the floodings, lowered the level of Lake Walen by five meters which greatly improved living conditions for the population, and dried up the swamps, resulting in 20 km² arable land in the Linth plain.

This will allow planes to land with as little as 300 meters of horizontal visibility.

It is 34 km long, 14. 5 km wide, and up to 8 meters above sea level, and has a land area of 155. 4 km².

The Seljuq Turks then arrived in 1071 and changed its name to Kara Hissar (" black castle ") after the ancient fortress situated upon a volcanic rock 201 meters above the town.

Another well known town is Fonni, being the highest town in Sardinia, More than 1000 meters above sea level.

The town is located north of the Harz mountains approximatively 123 meters above sea level.

The modern village of San Felice Circeo seems to occupy the site of the ancient town, the citadel of which stood on the mountain top ; its medieval walls rest upon ancient walls of Cyclopean work of less careful construction than those of the citadel, and enclose an area that measures 200 meters by 150 meters ( 660 by 490 ft ).

Here are the remains of a Roman town, belonging to the 1st and 2nd centuries, extending over an area of some 600 by 500 meters (( 2, 000 by 1, 600 ft ), and consisting of fine buildings along the lagoons, including a large open piscina or basin, surrounded by a double portico, while farther inland are several very large and well-preserved water-reservoirs, supplied by an aqueduct of which traces may still be seen.

The general elevation along the crest of these mountains averages about 1, 800 meters above sea level south of the port town of Berbera, and eastward from that area it continues at 1, 800 to 2, 100 meters almost to Caseyr.

The country's highest point, Shimber Berris, which rises to 2, 407 meters, is located near the town of Erigavo.

Băile Herculane (; ; ; ) is a town in Romanian Banat, in Caraş-Severin County, situated in the valley of the Cerna River, between the Mehedinţi Mountains to the east and the Cerna Mountains to the west, elevation 168 meters.

It is situated on the slopes of the Elk Hill in Vijayanagaram of Ooty town in Tamil Nadu, India at an altitude of 2200 meters.

The highest point in the oblast, is an elevation of 150 meters lying near the town of Nagornoye, while the lowest is a section of the Irtysh river lying near Malaya Bicha.

During the summer, it also employs 15 to 17 seasonal officers, some of them college students in training ; many of the trainees police the towns seasonal parking meters, a major source of revenue for the town.

* Fort Noble Mountain – An elevation at the west town line, northwest of Morehouseville ( Altitude: 2310 feet, 704. 09 meters ).

Its measure is exactly 100 meters in both width and length with the crossing two main axes of the old town.

Anagni appears today as a small medieval town, placed on the ridge of a hill ( 475 meters above sea level ), with small twisting streets and steep lanes everywhere.

* Vojislav Jakic ( 1932 – 2003 ), a Serbian artist who spent most of his life in a small town of Despotovac producing drawings up to five meters long evoking the memories of his own life, his obsessions with death, and reflections on art.

de Blénac was responsible for the 10-year effort that resulted in the building of a 487 meter wall around the peninsula on which the Fort stood, the wall being four meters high and two meters thick, and cutting a ditch that separated from the town.

Prevail mountain landscapes of misty appearance characteristic of the Venezuelan Coastal Range ( an mountainous alignment against the Venezuelan coast of the Caribbean Sea ), which is the greater height of Aragua state, the Codazzi peak of 2, 429 meters, located north of the town.

Arcosanti is an experimental town that began construction in 1970 in central Arizona, north of Phoenix, at an elevation of 3, 732 feet ( 1, 130 meters ).

The major attraction here is the Cuauhtinchan Archeological Zone, located just west of the town center on a hill called Cerro de los Idolos, which rises 215 meters above the town.

The cemetery zone is found 200 meters north of the synagogue, which places it beyond the inhabited area of the town.

The highest point in the center of Skopje is at an altitude of 1066 meters which is far exceeded by the mountains Osoj, Skopska Crna Gora, and Žeden which have heights of 1506 meters, 1260 meters and 1561 meters respectively.

Inside a walled square, 300 meters to a side, was the ceremonial center.

The net is 1. 07 meters ( 3 feet 6 inches ) high at the posts, and 0. 914 meters ( 3 feet ) high in the center.

The Guanghua Twin Towers standing in the center of the campus reach 140. 5 meters, reportedly the highest buildings ever constructed in a university campus in China.

The highest natural point in the county and the state of Maine is Mount Katahdin at 5, 271 feet ( 1, 606 meters ), while the geographic center is Greeley Landing in the Town of Dover-Foxcroft.

Carrefour is integrated in the new shopping center in the same format as in other countries extending into a space of about 7000 square meters.

In the center is a column that supports two large bowls and a sculpture of the China Pobalana which is over three meters high.

With a covered area of 8, 100 square meters and capacity of up to a million passengers a year, the airport is located 13 kilometers from the city center.

At the center, Mount Malabahoc ( locally known as Mount Bandilaan ) reaches about 628 meters in elevation, the highest point on the island.

The avenue which is roughly 15 meters wide seems to end at Flanagans Fort, another ringfort with a small mound at the center.

These altars, roughly 2 meters high and twice as wide, both feature an elaborately dressed and sculpted figure on the center front.

The monumental center of Monte Albán is the Main Plaza, which measures approximately 300 meters by 200 meters.

The siliceous megabreccia is at least 40 m thick in its center to only a few meters thick along its edges.

In the center of the circle, in depth of 1. 5 meters, there is an eternal flame.

The center of town is at an elevation of 857 meters ( 2811 feet ).

The unnamed park has 10, 000 meters of surface area, kiosk, gymnasium, bicycle path, multipurpose room, parking, rain water containment system and child care center.

The altitude of Buzău ranges from 101 meters in the North-West, near the hills to 88 meters close to the river, with a 95 meter average ( as is also the altitude in the Dacia square, in the center ).

Eixo Rodoviário, in Brasília, which is 13 kilometer long and 30 meters wide and is an arterial road connecting the center of that city from both southward and northward wings of Brasília's Plano Piloto, perpendicular to the well known Eixo Monumental ( Monumental Axis in English ), is auto-free on Sundays and holidays.