Buru Island, where I was a political prisoner from 1969 to 1979, was turned from an island of agricultural estates into a vast savanna.

With a diverse topography of jagged peaks, rain forest and vast savannas, the country is rich with the common and the peculiar: toucans, macaws, condors, eagles, hummingbird and flamingos.

The intrusion of modern war on the vast African savanna is often jarring.

Carina 4269 rose to illuminate a vast savanna, clumped with alumes, gallow-trees, bundle-fungus, patches of thorn-grass.

A Canadian developer has built a $10 million coliseum in the middle of a vast savanna of sand and sagebrush, and brought with it a professional hockey team, the Tri-City Americans.

It is made of the same sand that once formed part of a vast savanna of the late Pleistocene where Neanderthals hunted.

IN one of the murky, hyacinth-choked pools in these vast savannas, whorls of thick spotted coils appear and disappear at the water's surface, hinting at the mass of snake hidden below.

There must be some feature of the mineral content of these stone roads that made them run in ribbon-like lines over the vast savanna, and be so resistant to weathering or cracking.

With vast open savannas teeming with wildlife, Botswana is truly the Africa of your dreams.

The builders of Georgia's epic new mall, a vast savanna of shopping on 100 acres, chose a precarious moment in Atlanta's history to open their doors a few months ago.