The refuge occupies the eastern end of the 500-mile-long North Slope, a rumpled treeless plain that drapes between the jagged Brooks Range and the nation's only Arctic shore.
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The Woomera center is a former missile testing base surrounded by razor wire-topped fences on a barren, treeless plain 1, 800 kilometers ( 1, 120 miles ) west of Sydney.
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Eastern Montana also has breaks and highlands that are widely forested, such as the Custer National Forest and areas around Fort Peck Lake, contrary to the almost completely treeless plains of the Midwest.
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The characteristic landscape is composed of treeless plains, saline steppes and salt lakes, and includes scattered sand dunes, low, wet forests and freshwater marshes along the floodplains of the ancient rivers.
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Mariantonietta Colimberti shouted over a breeze whipping a vast treeless plain as her partner, Mario Trapletti, read a tourism sign on Canada's only road to cross the Arctic Circle, the Dempster Highway.
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As early as 14, 000 years ago, coastal regions that now are underwater were treeless plains similar to today's Yukon, said paleoecologist Rolf W . Mathewes of Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.
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He was a blacksmith and farmer who grew and sold eucalyptus trees used to protect crops from the seasonal Santa Ana winds that originated inland and brought strong, hot, extremely dry winds to the treeless plain.
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On a treeless plain, midway between Wild Horse Creek and Deadman Ditch, a front-end loader appeared on the horizon Monday, laboring slowly as it dragged two dead cows and carried a third in the front scoop.
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In one of the hundreds of tents thrown up on a wind-whipped treeless plain to house Chechen war refugees here, a handful of youngsters perched in a semicircle on wooden stools Tuesday afternoon and revealed to a curious visitor their fondest hopes.
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The lay of the land and the weather changed dramatically from the towering Cascades and wet, rich forest of the Columbia River Gorge to the rolling, parched, treeless plains of the lower Snake River, but the craggy basalt cliffs and outcroppings are present throughout.
