At this time of year a good Kimberley downpour is capable of dropping rain on a biblical scale, filling rivers with roaring floodwaters, making the entire region impassable by vehicle and, over millennia of wet seasons, eroding the Kimberley into its distinctive, world-famous topography.
Open year-round Great Basin national park is situated in the heart of Nevada's famous basin and range topography, with craggy mountains alternating with vast sagebrush valleys.
Great Basin national park is situated in the heart of Nevada's famous basin and range topography, with craggy mountains alternating with vast sagebrush valleys.
Great Basin, in eastern Nevada, protects a small pocket of this state's famous "basin and range" topography – created by deep-rooted forces pulling apart the continental crust, forming a series of parallel basins and mountain ranges across the state.
The quiet and atmospheric forest -- thought by some to be haunted -- is famous for its unusual topography, with above-ground tree roots, hardened lava and scattered chunks of volcanic rock.
Japan brings to mind a lot of travel must-dos: Tokyo's crazily busy Shibuya intersection, Mount Fuji's white-tipped peak, the orange gates of Fushimi Inar and the famous temples that pepper Kyoto's topography.
You've got to prepare for the fact that everyone else in Berlin is also thinking, "Hey, yeah, let's have some currywurst, stroll through the Topography of Terror, and then go to the big famous nightclub!" Now more than ever, the bouncers are tasked with selecting a chosen few from the thousands who want to get in.
"All the geographical, underwater topography and archaeological evidence strongly suggests that this wreck is Columbus's famous flagship, the Santa Maria," said Mr Clifford.
These little-known postwar pictures, many shot from a top-down perspective in contrast to the low, almost shin-high angle of his most famous domestic photographs, showed Bunker Hill and other inconveniently steep features of the city's topography being leveled by tractors and earthmovers to make way for ambitious public-works and grand civic projects.
The drama in the piece was fodder enough: coded messages sent via El Chapo emissaries, secret plane rides over unknown topography, covert conversations at jungle hideaways — all enhanced by the fact that the man orchestrating it all was a famous actor.
Then topography took over.
