These islands are the highest peaks of a vast granite mountain range that sits mostly beneath the sea.

The plant grows in cracks and crevices of the granite mountain cliffs.

Defense plants included nuclear facilities built within caverns excavated in the granite mountain on the northern edge of the city as well as space research enterprises.

Tracks lead through eucalypt forests and wildflowers to secluded coves, whitesand beaches and granite mountains.

Wind, gravity, rainwater, snow, and ice-melt supplied rivers that ultimately carved through the granite mountains and eventually led to their end.