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 Translation for 'mountainside' from English to Icelandic
NOUN   a mountainside | mountainsides
SYNO mountainside | versant
landaf.
fjallshlíð {kv}
mountainside
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Translation for 'mountainside' from English to Icelandic

mountainside
fjallshlíð {kv}landaf.
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Usage Examples English
  • Navigating the old Ponce-Arecibo road was very tedious as the road was engineered to run from mountainside to mountainside, following the contours of the mountains, and along the natural definitions of the course of rivers, to reach its destination.
  • In 2012, an American parachute jumper died, crashing into the mountainside after jumping from a helicopter during Extremsportveko.
  • Several air forces have used tunnels dug into a mountainside as underground hangars.
  • A Dalstroy Aviation Antonov An-2 crashed on the mountainside by Mount Nevskaya in June 1951.
  • On the northeastern slopes of the Trödelsteine there are several trees, the southwestern mountainside is completed forested.

  • Goust, a hamlet in southwestern France, is notable for its mountainside chute that is used to transport coffins.
  • Chil Zena is well known for the discovery of the Indian Emperor Ashoka's Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription on the mountainside, which is still located on in an open-air compound on the mountainside.
  • A "Steilhang" (pl: "Steilhänge") is a geoscientific term for a steep mountainside or hillside (or a part thereof), the average slope of which is greater than 1:2 or 30°.
  • Mountainside House – a holiday house on a beautiful South-Coast mountainside that subtly orients itself to a landscape elements through a series of multiple long and cross axes that can be opened and closed within the building.
  • The Schlossbach, a tributary of the River Inn, rises on the mountainside.

  • Jebel Dahar is known for its cave dwellings. These are excavated in two forms: dugouts and tunnels into the mountainside.
  • The crypts climb the mountainside in a row, with some of them built into the mountainside itself.
  • A mountainside observatory searches the skies for a vast and deadly creature.
  • On the eastern mountainside above Daxstein are overgrown clearance cairns.
  • A USAF C-7 Caribou crashed into a mountainside while on approach to Qui Nhơn airport, killing all 26 onboard.

  • Several patches of indigenous forest survive at Newlands, mostly higher up the mountainside where historically they were safer from logging.
  • Numbers are odd on the mountainside of the road and even on the side closer to waterfront; which makes sense since the first properties were built along the mountainside (southern side) of the road.
  • Lermontov (...) is a town in Stavropol Krai, Russia, located on the mountainside of Beshtau. Population: [...] [...] 16,500 (1973).
  • The mine followed an [...] wide ore-bearing quartz vein about [...] into the mountainside.
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