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n. A mountain range located in northwest Africa, occupying portions of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia.
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The Atlas Mountains are a mountain range in the Maghreb. It stretches around through Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. The range's highest peak is Jebel Toubkal, with an elevation of in southwestern Morocco. It separates the Mediterranean and Atlantic coastlines from the Sahara Desert. The Atlas mountains are primarily inhabited by Berber populations. The terms for 'mountain' in some Berber languages are adrar and adras, which are believed to be cognates of the toponym Atlas.
The mountains are home to a number of plant and animal species unique in Africa, often more like those of Europe; many of them are endangered and some have already gone extinct. Examples include the Barbary macaque, the Atlas bear (Africa's only species of bear; now extinct), the Barbary leopard, the Barbary stag, Barbary sheep, the Barbary lion (extinct in the wild), the Atlas Mountain badger, the North African elephant (extinct), the North African aurochs (extinct), Cuvier's gazelle, the Northern bald ibis, dippers, the Atlas mountain viper, the Atlas cedar, the European black pine, and the Algerian oak.
Usage examples of "atlas mountains".
A gentle breeze was blowing from the southward, cooled, presumably, by the snowclad Atlas Mountains of Africa across the strait.
Upon that part of the African continent nearest to the site of Atlantis we find a chain of mountains, known from the most ancient times as the Atlas Mountains.
When I woke we were running out of the Djebilet hills, down into the flat plain of Marrakech, and there, ahead of us, were the Atlas Mountains.
That if we see the Atlas Mountains in the dark and are compelled to drive to the top of the Atlas Mountains in the dark that once we've arrived at the top, after passing soldiers and over bridges, that a reason will be revealed to us.
In the Atlas Mountains, we would be concerned with passes and steep mountain tops, in the plain with salt lakes, and, further north, with cultivated land.
When the weather had settled down they had sailed southeast, steering toward the peaks of the Atlas Mountains, until they’.
He had arranged with the owner of the filling station for the distribution of the leaflets in packets of 500 to the twenty most important oases south of the Atlas mountains.
Behind it, the roads hairpin up into the lush green hills and pine forests, climbing ever higher into the Atlas Mountains.
But by the time they reached the foothills of the Atlas Mountains, Baker sensed that Canidy had emerged from his fog.
This time the takeoff was from sea level, and the Atlas Mountains which had witnessed the start of our earlier shots were now merely the distant background to the scene.
The space-vessel Phosphor lay in a huge cavern beneath that region which had once been known as the Atlas Mountains.
Beyond them the dark massed shapes of the Atlas Mountains-rose once more, stretching to the horizon.
On this day trip to the Atlas Mountains he's here under protest, he wants to go back.
The Atlas mountains from an inverted V running southwest from the seaport of Tunis.
One campaign followed another, and for seven years, as enlisted man and officer, he had fought in the Atlas Mountains, and raided deep into the Tibesti region.