Example sentences of "mountains to the south " in BNC.

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1 The whole detachment set off on 15 March from Siwa in the trucks of John Olivey 's Rhodesian patrol , heading for the Jebel mountains to the south of Benghazi , a journey of 400 miles .
2 A few years ago , we were walking in the mountains to the south of Loch Tummel , heading for a tiny water called Loch a'Chait , a hard tramp uphill from Lick .
3 And so into the last , and smallest , of the three Basque provinces , La Soule , itself divisible into two parts , of the Upper and the Lower Soule , the first hard against the barrier of the high mountains to the south , the second relatively flat and bordering on Béarn .
4 Argeĺes is undeniably a centre , near enough to the towns to the north and the great valleys and mountains to the south to suggest itself as a place to stay .
5 On the way up to the col from Luz you come first to the small resort and spa of Barèges , one street wide and squeezed tightly in in true spa style between the mountains to the south and the river to the north .
6 It is known as the Baronnies and fills the top half of a triangle formed by the main roads which run south from Bàgneres and from La Barthe-de-Neste and which cross the mountains to the south at the Col d'Aspin .
7 Somewhere amongst the ochrous jumble of mountains to the south Moses had received the Ten Commandments .
8 It is flanked by a dramatic ridge of mountains to the south , white-clad needle points that are silhouetted against the blue sky .
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