Sequoia's backcountry offers a vast expanse of high-alpine wonders. African Savanna takes visitors through a rocky, arid expanse, backed by natural limestone walls. The wide sandy expanse offers views of a scenic arch rock offshore. The Air Defense Forces needed to cover the vast expanse of the Soviet Union. Russian cuisine derives its varied character from the vast and multi-ethnic expanse of Russia. Borman described it as being "a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing". He rises into the endless blue expanse of the sky until he disappears from view. The peninsula also boasts the southernmost expanse of Arctic tundra in the world. The background seems to be a climbing expanse of terraced farmland. Porbandar's beach locally known as 'Chowpati' has a long, sandy expanse along the ocean. It may also mean space, the expanse of air, the nether abyss or infinite darkness. Borges' narrator describes how his universe consists of an enormous expanse of adjacent hexagonal rooms. In creation from chaos myth, initially there is nothing but a formless, shapeless expanse. The racecourse has around 12,000 roses within its large expanse. Europeans generally assumed that the aquatic expanse between Europe and Asia was uninterrupted.