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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Mount Roraima, Najd, South Cameroon Plateau, Mambilla Plateau, Iranian plateau, Armenian Highland, Plateaus of Yellowstone National Park, Altiplano, Kinder Scout, Downland, Plateau de Millevaches, Great Papuan Plateau, Ukok Plateau, Obudu Plateau, Western High Plateau, Campo Imperatore, Ludogorie, Oropedio Lasithiou, Ankarana Reserve, Engstligenalp, Thaba Bosiu, Larzac, Dissected plateau, Mangi-Tungi, Beza Mahafaly Reserve, Zlatiya, Vercors Plateau, Sierra Nevada del Cocuy, Lord Howe Rise, Gergovie plateau, Uemachi Plateau, Murgia, Western Plateau, Transylvanian Plateau, Ennedi Plateau, Causses, Nyika Plateau, Kaema Plateau, Tung Kula Rong Hai, Bhander Plateau, Tagant Plateau, Limnakaro, Dobrogea Plateau, East Tasman Plateau, Adrar Plateau, Bateke Plateau, Rownia pod nie k, Chapada, Turgay Plateau, Plateau de Lannemezan, Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Tovi'i, Senj gahara, Da Lat Plateau, Roggeveld, Ouatchi Plateau, Shire Highlands, Kwahu Plateau. Excerpt: Mount Roraima (also known as Roraima Tepui or Cerro Roraima in Spanish, and Monte Roraima in Portuguese), is the highest of the Pakaraima chain of tepui plateau in South America. First described by the English explorer Sir Walter Raleigh in 1596, its summit area is defended by 400-metre-tall cliffs on all sides. The mountain includes the triple border point of Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana. Mount Roraima lies on the Guiana Shield in the southeastern corner of Venezuela's Canaima National Park forming the highest peak of Guyana's Highland Range. The tabletop mountains of the park are considered some of the oldest geological formations on Earth, dating back to some two billion years ago in the Precambrian. The highest point in Guyana and the highest point of the Brazilian state of Roraima lie on the plateau, but Venezuela and Brazil have higher mountains elsewhere. The t...
