word | | Terrain |
| form | Antarctica | ... Land, Wilkes Land, the Antarctic Peninsula area, and parts of Ross Island on McMurdo Sound; glaciers form ice shelves along about half of the coastline, and floating ice shelves constitute 11% of ... |
| formation | France | ... mountains Guadeloupe: Basse-Terre is volcanic in origin with interior mountains; Grande-Terre is low limestone formation; most of the seven other islands are volcanic in origin Martinique: mountainous with indented coastline ... |
| formation | Norfolk Island | volcanic formation with mostly rolling plains |
| formation | Pitcairn Islands | rugged volcanic formation; rocky coastline with cliffs |
| formation | Tonga | most islands have limestone base formed from uplifted coral formation; others have limestone overlying volcanic base |
| formations | Bahamas, The | long, flat coral formations with some low rounded hills |
| formed | French Southern and Antarctic Lands | ... with steep cliffs on the eastern side; has active thermal springs Iles Crozet: a large archipelago formed from the Crozet Plateau is divided into two groups of islands Iles Kerguelen: the interior ... |
| formed | Tonga | most islands have limestone base formed from uplifted coral formation; others have limestone overlying volcanic base |
| former | Wake Island | atoll of three low coral islands, Peale, Wake, and Wilkes, built up on an underwater volcano; central lagoon is former crater, islands are part of the rim |
| forms | Pacific Ocean | ... in the southern Pacific by a counterclockwise, cool-water gyre; in the northern Pacific, sea ice forms in the Bering Sea and Sea of Okhotsk in winter; in the southern Pacific, sea ... |
| found | Ukraine | most of Ukraine consists of fertile plains (steppes) and plateaus, mountains being found only in the west (the Carpathians), and in the Crimean Peninsula in the extreme south |
| France | France | metropolitan France: mostly flat plains or gently rolling hills in north and west; remainder is mountainous, especially Pyrenees in south, Alps in east French Guiana: low-lying coastal plains rising to hills ... |
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