Qattara Depression

More than 90% of the country is desert or semi-desert with barren, flat to undulating plains, plateaus, depressions (including the large Qattara Depression).

Libya 2009

Its lowest point is the Qattara Depression (-133 metres) and its highest point is Mount Catherine (2,629 metres).

Egypt 2009

In Egypt the Qattara Depression is 285 kilometers (km) long and 135 km wide, about 19,500 km2 of land below sea level with a maximum depth of 133 meters (m).

Saharan halophytics 2008

Egyptlowest point: Qattara Depression -133 m highest point: Mount Catherine 2,629 m

Elevation extremes 2008

The highest point of the country, at Mount Catherine in Sinai, is 2,629 m above sea level and the lowest point, at the Qattara Depression in the northwest, is 133 m below mean sea level.

Water profile of Egypt 2008

There are no permanent settlements in the Qattara Depression.

Saharan halophytics 2008

Elevation extremes: lowest point: Qattara Depression -133 m highest point: Mount Catherine 2,629 m

Egypt 2008

A joint venture between EGPC and Eni also is producing about 40,000 bbl/d from an area in the Qattara Depression in the Western Desert, in the Meleiha and West Razzaq blocks.

Energy profile of Egypt 2007

He visualized the map of the El Alamein Line, where the Allies would make their last stand, This was one line Rommel could not circumvent, for at its southern end was the vast impassable Qattara Depression.

The Key to Rebecca Follett, Ken, 1949- 1980

The new line of defense stretched across a thirty-mile gap between the sea and the impassable Qattara Depression, and if that line fell there would be no more defenses, Egypt would be Rommel's.

The Key to Rebecca Follett, Ken, 1949- 1980