Sentences with phrase «hundred of islands near»

Hundred of islands near the Equator in Papua, Indonesia, have been undercut by the sea in a manner that gives credence to the hypothesis that there has been little net change in sea level in the past thousands of years.

Not exact matches

The salt mines near Avery Island and in the Zagros Mountains are hundreds of years old.

With an art degree from Rhode Island School of Design on his office wall, two union cards - stagehands and scenic artists - in his wallet, five able - bodied children, a French wife, and a photograph torn from a magazine of two Yugoslav guys roasting a lamb over a pit, he created a legendary party - a feast that almost two hundred people came to every year from as far away as the townhouses of New York City and as near as our local elementary school.

Two hundred miles east of this giddying street, near the Cambodian border, lies the small island of Koh Kood, home to rainforest, coconut and rubber plantations, sleepy fishing villages, and fewer than 2,000 people.

And if you are up for the adventure of a lifetime the near virgin waters of Cocos Island offer scalloped hammerhead sharks by the hundreds.

There are 29 islands and hundreds of cays in the Bahamas, with accommodations ranging from large mega-resorts near Nassau to intimate hideaways on smaller islands.

Belize is a small country located near Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula that has hundreds of offshore islands, rainforests, waterfalls, and jungle in a pristine, biodiverse landscape teeming with exotic birds and wildlife.

I was merely trying to figure how area such solar panel array would take up and this had nothing to do with costs but checking to see if it took up more area or somewhere close to areas of «peaks of eternal light»: «NASA and Europe revealed a small number of illuminated ridges within 15 km from the pole, each of them much like an island of no more than a few hundred meters across in an ocean of eternal darkness, where a lander could receive near - permanent lighting (~ 70 — 90 % of time in lunar winter, likely 100 % in lunar summer).»

The author of this paper says Stantec's insistence on checking for carcasses very near to the turbines is giving false numbers: «The Wolfe Island studies conducted by Stantec reported hundreds of carcasses with just several reported beyond 50 meters.