The greatest conquest of the emperor Antoninus Pius - the southern uplands of Scotland - had been given up almost as soon as he was dead.

Valley networks are very strongly concentrated in the cratered southern uplands of Mars.

He simply kept his mouth shut and his ears open as the band of Scadori warriors tramped steadily across the rugged southern uplands of their home territory.

The southern uplands are at the northern end of an uplift area in a Horst-Graben structure that extends down the Mornington Peninsula.

The southern uplands and much of the coastal plain are drained by the Kouilou River system.

Two nights later, sure enough, we were put once more into trucks and transported to the south, towards the freezing southern uplands.

Suitable hard argillaceous rocks - mudstones and shales - are found in Wales, Devon, the Lake District and the southern uplands of Scotland, says the report.

ONCE out of Prague the road began to rise through pinewoods into the southern Bohemian uplands.

On foot in southern Scotland: 40 walks in the southern uplands.

The total is slightly higher in the southern uplands than in the central plains.