| MESAVERDE | High plateau in southern Colorado (4,5) |
| RIO | The - Grande rises on the Continental Divide in southern Colorado (3) |
| KAROO | High plateau in South Africa |
| MATOGROSSO | High plateau in south-west Brazil (4,6) |
| PARAMO | High plateau in the Andes between the tree line and the permanent snow line (6) |
| PAINTEDDESERT | Part of the high plateau in north-central Arizona (7,6) |
| TABLELAND | Broad high plateau |
| ALTIPLANO | The Andean high plateau |
| MASSIFCENTRAL | Mountainous plateau in southern France (6,7) |
| ROOFOFTHE | Plateau in 26 doth offer "low", or otherwise? (4,2,3,5) |
| CENTRAL | Great mountainous plateau in southern France whose peaks include Puy de Sancy (6,7) |
| MASSIF | Great mountainous plateau in southern France whose peaks include Puy de Sancy (6,7) |
| MESA | High plateau, as in southwestern USA (4) |
| VELDT | High - - - , plateau of 1,500m-plus altitude that can disadvantage teams playing in South Africa (5) |
| TIBET | Land on a high plateau |
| MESAS | High plateaus |
| AHAGGAR | Name for a large plateau in the north centre of the Sahara, on the Tropic of Cancer, North Africa. Its height is above 3,000 feet (900 metres), culminating in Mount Tahat in southeastern Algeria. (7) |
| USTYURT | Plateau in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, lying between the Aral Sea and the Amu Darya river delta in the east and the Mangyshlak (Tupqarghan) Plateau and the Kara-Bogaz-Gol (Garabogazkol; an inlet of the |
| GOBI | Desert plateau in East Asi, Chiefly in Mongolia |
| ATHERTON | Lake Tinaroo is a man-made reservoir in the Great Dividing Range plateau in Australia's north Queens |
