Much of Bougainville Island is mountainous, with the highest peaks rising to over 2,000 metres, and contains many large rivers, while the southern half of the island has extensive areas of coastal swampland.

Seamounts. Seamounts are underwater volcanic peaks that rise more than 1,000 metres above the neighbouring ocean floor.

The peaks here rise so precipitously, the glaciers are so steep and crevassed that few except the most skilled mountaineers can penetrate these ranges.

The peaks here rise so precipitously, the glaciers are so steep and crevassed ... that few except the most skilled mountaineers can penetrate these ranges.

India collided with Tibet thrusting up these immense peaks, which are still rising.

India collided with Tibet ... thrusting up these immense peaks, which are still rising.

To see the white peaks of the island rising to the sea... ... and he dreamed of the different harbors and roadsteads of the Canary Islands.

As the number of women exiting from the labor market due to marriage and childbirth has continued to decrease, the low point between the two peaks has continued to rise.

That transpired at a time when the total number of United Nations peacekeeping personnel in the field was close to an unprecedented peak and continuing to rise in the face of additional and expanded peacekeeping responsibilities.