6 sentences with 'plateau'
Example sentences and phrases with the word plateau and other words derived from it.
• « Thus, in less than thirty years, Persia had grown from an obscure kingdom in the middle of the Iranian plateau to the largest land empire in the entire world, larger even than China (under the Eastern Zhou dynasty) at the time. »
• « The Ottomans then seized Safavid territory and forced Ismail to retreat to the Iranian plateau. »
• « A last glimpse of Mars, before our final stopover, will reveal Mount Pavonis, one of Mars' minor volcanoes, on the Olympus Mons plateau. It is not active, but you can see high clouds of gas and several geysers rising into the reddish Martian sky, like a luminous festival of dancing waters. »
• « By national route number 3 we go to the southernmost point, on the island of Tierra del Fuego, and by national route number 9 to the opposite extreme, the distant high plateau that marks our northern border, on the frontier with Bolivia. »