Plateau in example sentence

Five hundred feet only separated the explorers from the plateau, which they wished to reach so as to establish there an encampment for the night, but these five hundred feet were increased to more than two miles by the zigzags which they had to describe.

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It may be just a plateau, something else.

On the coast of Northern Ireland, a vast plateau of basalt slabs and columns called the Giant’s Causeway stretches into the ocean.

High on the Antarctic plateau, over 10,000 feet, it's very windy, very cold, very dry, we were exhausted.

It's a huge network under the surface of the tepui plateau, and in only ten days of expedition, we explored more than 20 kilometers of cave passages.

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