This is Queensland at its most green, and a breath of fresh air from the muggy lowlands.
The parish of St Minver Lowlands, near Rock, has the highest proportion in the county, at 42.9%.
The Maya civilization collapsed in most of its southern lowlands, leaving only abandoned pyramids in silent cities.
The lowlands are densely forested with fir, pine, oak, beach, birch, and maple.
At the beginning of Mr Fry's period the Highlands were virtually a different nation from the Lowlands of Scotland.
Resources are scarce because of the harsh environment of the highland plateau and limited agricultural space in the lowlands.
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In the lowlands of Japan, terraced paddy fields have become a rare sight.
It is considering proposals such as relocating the population, introducing genetically modified crops and building barriers to protect the lowlands.
The parish of St Minver Lowlands, near Rock, has the highest proportion of second homes in the county, at 42.9%.
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Hotels, condos, a stadium and gleaming Olympic ice palaces are sprouting from the Black Sea coastal lowlands, uprooting residential neighborhoods.
The menu is divided into several categories, including rare and single malt, Lowlands, Highlands, Speyside, Isle of Islay, Cambelton, Island, Irish, American and Canadian.
As in Bolivia, the more prosperous lowlands may resist highland socialism.
It puts the economy in the hands of the state, limits landholdings and redistributes revenues from gas fields in the eastern lowlands to poorer areas of the country.
But walking in Bolivia is also an experience in diversity: one day you can be in snow-covered mountains and the next you might descend through moss-strewn cloud forests to jungle lowlands.
La Paz's pre-eminent status in Bolivia is increasingly at risk: nowadays, most foreign companies choose to set up in Santa Cruz, a business-friendly city in the eastern lowlands.
The jungle outpost of Lago Agrio is in northeastern Ecuador, where the elevation plummets from the serrated ridge of the Andes to the swampy lowlands of the Amazon Basin.
It increases state control over the economy, limits the size of big land holdings and redistributes revenues from the important gas fields in the eastern lowlands to poorer parts of the nation.
Political fissures, especially the cleft between the coastal lowlands and the Andean highlands, have long denied Ecuador's governments legislative majorities, while squabbling among interest-groups has stymied attempts at economic reform.
The excitement has not died down since, with Tinaroo becoming a favourite for Tablelanders as well as Cairnsites fleeing seasonal jellyfish, the threat of giant crocs and the swelter of the lowlands.
When I was asked by Ruby Pseudo Consultancy to blog for Converse Ltd. at the Lowlands Festival Holland, what I saw was a case study in how to do it right.
Whereas more than 300 Western Lowlands mountain gorillas are in captivity in America, perhaps as few as three of these beautiful but endangered primates are sheltering in zoos on their home continent.
After the shrinkage of the industry in the mid-1980s, many of the miners left their highland homes, encouraged by government resettlement programmes, to become farmers in the tropical Chapare lowlands, east of the Andes.
The conflict is usually described as pitting indigenous Bolivians in the uplands against descendants of Spain in the lowlands, or poor versus rich, but in fact Santa Cruz is ethnically mixed and average incomes in the two cities are comparable.
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