An interior plateau is dominated by limestone hills.

It lies along the coastal slopes which rise from the Atlantic Ocean towards the interior central plateau of the island.

It has been one of the main access routes from the coast to the interior plateau crossing the Cantabrian Mountains.

These refugees have been moved away from the border to facilitate military operations and now must endure life on the barren and wind-swept interior plateau.

The interior plateau is typically dry and has cold or very cold winters.

The Cape Middleveld is the most westerly region in the interior plateau.

Farther south, the Limpopo drains a portion of the interior plateau, but breaks through the bounding highlands on the side of the continent nearest its source.

Davidof Island has steep rocky shores that rise to an interior plateau to a maximum elevation of 328 m).

There the interior plateau is dissected by numerous elongated, glacially overdeepened lakes.

Trains climbed from sea level at Pisagua to the interior plateau via three reversing zig-zags and a heavily graded line.