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The reader advances across Mr. McKay’s superb translation as though compelled by a fierce highland wind.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

Despite that short evolutionary history, the plants have adapted to remarkably different habitats across the islands, including humid highland forests and hot, dry lowlands.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026

Interestingly, the same gene has experienced strong positive selection in central African rainforest hunter-gatherers and in highland populations of Ecuador.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 14, 2026

A herd of highland cows has been removed from a nature reserve after warnings to visitors drawn in by a social media-driven surge in interest were ignored, a wildlife trust has said.

From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026

To the pine-trees upon the highland of Dorthonion I climbed in the Winter.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

Some visitors liken the landscape to the Scottish highlands, despite its tropical climate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The close-up image of the Moon's surface includes dark areas known as maria and bright areas known as the highlands.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

He had passed another full layby in Glencoe valley, a particularly picturesque and popular part of the Scottish highlands that attracts large numbers of overseas tourists.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

During the encounter, the spacecraft captured a series of images, including a striking view of the double-ring Huygens crater surrounded by the heavily cratered southern highlands of Mars.

From Science Daily ● May 23, 2026

The distance between Mesoamerica and South America—say, between Mexico’s highlands and Ecuador’s—is only 1,200 miles, approximately the same as the distance in Eurasia separating the Balkans from Mesopotamia.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond