Temperature fluctuations during glaciations and interglacial periods in the late Pleistocene, the complex mountain ranges in the Central and Central-East parts of Asia, and human activities have all contributed to the present-day distribution patterns.
Ranges in the central spine include the Crocker, the Nieuwenhuis, and the Muller mountains.
A river on the west coast of the South Island and the Huiarau Ranges in the central North Island are also named after the bird.
Gamburtsev Mountains, Russian Gory Gamburtseva, subglacial range in the central part of eastern Antarctica, extending 750 800 miles (1,200 1,300 km).
Distribution of the five species of legless lizard in California. A. pulchra was already known from a wide range in the central part of the state, but four others are newly described by UC Berkeley & Cal State-Fullerton herpetologists.
To the east of the Yazgulem Range, in the central portion of the Pamirs, is the east-west Muzkol Range, reaching 20,449 feet (6,233 metres) in Soviet Officers Peak.
Endemic to Colombia, as its name would suggest, and the only chachalaca within its now relatively limited range in the central (Cauca and Magdalena) valleys of the country, Colombian Chachalaca should be readily identified.
Wind River Range, mountain range in the central Rocky Mountains, west-central Wyoming, U.S. The range extends for 100 miles (160 km) northwest-southeast to the Sweetwater River and is part of the Continental Divide.
Mr. Rivera, the defense minister, said more than 400 members of the armed forces and national police took part in the operation, which attacked a concrete bunker used by Mono Jojoy in the Macarenas, a 75-mile-long range in the central department, or province, of Meta.
The 2008 Iwate-Miyagi Nairiku Earthquake (Mj 7.2) occurred on June 14 , 2008 at the eastern flank of the Ou backbone range, in the central part of northern Honshu, Japan.
"We're digging and looking for people," he told Reuters by phone from the isolated location in the Gran Sasso mountain range in the central Abruzzo region.
