Sentences with phrase «indian sea island»

Basically produced out of Egyptian Giza 47, 87 and 88, American Supima and the West Indian Sea Island sort from Barbados, these cotton fabrics are the guarantees of exceptional quality.

Luxury cotton is only made of the most exclusive sorts, such as West Indian Sea Island cotton from Barbados, Supima from the US and Giza from Egypt.

Not exact matches

Even in Taprobane [Ceylon] an island in further India, where the Indian sea is, there is a Church of Christians, with clergy and a body of believers, but I know not whether there be any Christians in the parts beyond it.

Western church historians mention that Emperor Constantine sent a Christian embassy in AD 354 to certain countries bordering the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea under the leadership of an Asian Christian Theophilus, the Indian, who appears to have been a native of Maladive Islands.

In the island, again, called the island of Dioscorides [Socotora], which is situated in the same Indian sea, and where the inhabitants speak Greek, having been originally colonists sent thither by the Ptolemies who succeeded Alexander the Macedonian, there are clergy who receive their orders in Persia and are sent on to the island, and there is also a multitude of Christians.

Of course, Sankaty Head will never be able to do anything about one of its natural hazards: the fog which rolls in off the sea on some late afternoons just to remind golfers and people all over Nantucket that they are on an island and, as the Indians were saying in the first place, far away — so wonderfully far away.

If global warming melts the world's glaciers and raises sea levels, the first to know about it will be the citizens of the Maldives, a low - lying chain of island atolls in the Indian Ocean.

Remote island nations in the Pacific and Indian Oceans have for many years been considered extremely vulnerable to the effects of climate change and, in particular, rising sea levels.

Similarly, on Aldahabra Island in the Indian Ocean, land tortoises were exterminated during sea level high stands [114].

For ages the Andaman and Nicobar Islands have remained estranged from the Indian mainland, separated by the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea.

For two hundred years, fleets of treasure galleons stuffed with silver and gold and emeralds had plied the Caribbean Sea, crisscrossed it every which way, from Key West down to Cartagena, from the Yucatán over to the Windward Islands, and every so often, one of those unpredictable West Indian cyclones would come spinning across the Caribbean and slam half the fleet onto shallow reefs, which ripped open the hulls and spewed that treasure all over the ocean floor.

Nicknamed the «Galapagos of the Indian Ocean», the island is famous for its red crabs, sea birds, whale sharks and spectacular coral reefs.

The Maldives is more sea than land, making its islands a prime destination for fun in the warm and inviting Indian Ocean.

You can find this low - lying island nation in between the Indian and Arabian seas has luxuriously appointed bungalows set over dazzling blue waters and surrounded by talcum - soft white sand beaches — basically everything that bucket lists are made of.

The islands of Komodo and Rinca act as a bottleneck between the Indian and Pacific Ocean, making the Komodo National Park sea a rollercoaster of currents and waves.

In the early 1800's, Russian and Aleut sea otter hunters clashed violently with Indian people living on remote San Nicolas Island.

Stretch out on the seats, feel the sea breeze on your face as you take in the sights of the sparkling Indian ocean and the lush greenery of the islands that you whizz past, and keep your eyes peeled for dolphins!

A unique French West Indian villa on Baie Rouge Beach located on top of a hill approximately 150 feet above sea level with breathtaking 270 degree views of Baie Rouge, the St. Martin coastline, the islands of Anguilla and Saba and on a clear day of St. Eustatius, St. Kitts, Nevis and Montserrat.

In my briefings to the Association of Small Island States in Bali, the 41 Island Nations of the Caribbean, Pacific, and Indian Ocean (and later circulated to all member states), I pointed out that IPCC had seriously and systematically UNDERESTIMATED the extent of climate change, showing that the sensitivity of temperature and sea level to CO2 clearly shown by the past climate record in coral reefs, ice cores, and deep sea sediments is orders of magnitude higher than IPCC's models.

Coasts will go, islands will shrink like sit - com sacks in a cool pool, Arabs get stuck again, Japanese & Koreans, Indians & Londoners, quaked under sea.

SLR already threatens several small island states in the Pacific and Indian Oceans and, depending on how much sea level will rise in the coming decades and centuries, other coastal areas will become uninhabitable.

The president - elect of the Maldives, a nation of 1,200 low islands in the Indian Ocean, is planning to establish an investment fund with some of its earnings from tourism so it can buy a haven for its citizens should global warming raise sea levels at a dangerous pace, according to several news reports.

AP Media Shocker: Sea level threat revised: Scientific data challenge fears of sunken islands — May 22, 2009 Scientists have long warned that the Maldives, an archipelago nation of nearly 1,200 islands in the Indian Ocean, will be wiped out by rising sea levels in the coming decadSea level threat revised: Scientific data challenge fears of sunken islands — May 22, 2009 Scientists have long warned that the Maldives, an archipelago nation of nearly 1,200 islands in the Indian Ocean, will be wiped out by rising sea levels in the coming decadsea levels in the coming decades.

Scientists have long warned that the Maldives, an archipelago nation of nearly 1,200 islands in the Indian Ocean, will be wiped out by rising sea levels in the coming decades.

«Our results from this study imply that if future anthropogenic warming effects in the Indo - Pacific warm pool dominate natural variability, mid-ocean islands such as the Mascarenhas Archipelago, coasts of Indonesia, Sumatra, and the north Indian Ocean may experience significantly more sea level rise than the global average,» Han said.

One paper I just took a look at is Church et al., «Sea - level rise at tropical Pacific and Indian Ocean islands,» Global and Planetary Change 53:155 - 168 (2006), which says, among other things, «Mörner et al. (2004) and Mörner (2004) recently drew attention to the potential vulnerability of the Maldives.

Similarly, on Aldahabra Island in the Indian Ocean, land tortoises were exterminated during sea level high stands [114].

The separation between the Pacific and Indian oceans is less distinct, but generally it is considered to lie along the line of islands extending eastward from Sumatra, through Java to Timor, thence across the Timor Sea to Cape Londonderry in Australia.