Sentences with phrase «island outpost»

These include the seven - starred Basque chef Martin Berasategui's M.B. restaurant and Abama Kabuki, the Canary Island outpost of the Madrid - born Japanese fusion concept, which won its star at the hands of Canarian chef Daniel Franco in November last year.

The Island Outpost property is owned by Chris Blackwell, Jamaica - raised founder of Island Records.

Island Outpost, Chris Blackwell's award - winning collection of hotels & villa resorts in Jamaica, today announces Nick Simmonds as Managing Director of the highly anticipated re-opening of GoldenEye.

One of the most dramatically hip of these boutique properties is adults - only The Caves, part of Chris Blackwell's Island Outpost portfolio.

The destination is renowned for its rich musical history, from reggae heavyweights like Bob Marley to newbie pop star OMI to industry producer - turned - hotelier Chris Blackwell, who runs a stylish collection of properties under Island Outpost Resorts.

Island Records founder Chris Blackwell brings chart toppers to the Caribbean with the launch of Island Outpost resorts.

Hotelier Chris Blackwell (also the founder of Island Records) transformed GoldenEye — the north - shore estate where James Bond creator Ian Fleming lived and wrote — into an Island Outpost hotel a few years back.

Today, GoldenEye is an award - winning Island Outpost hotel.

Wake Island — Another John Farrow film, this one a fine, if generic WW2 film about a small island outpost holding out against overwhelming odds against the Japanese in the early days of the war.

The country has aggressively tried to fortify its foothold by turning seven mostly submerged reefs into island outposts, some with runways and radars and, more recently, weapons systems.

Palawan, which consists of an eponymous main island, in addition to some 1,800 surrounding islets and island outposts, is a repeat winner on the list, first scoring the No. 1 spot in 2013.

He was attacking and boarding enemy ships, swinging down from ship riggings to engage in swashbuckling derring - do, diving off of the ship to stealthily infiltrate an enemy island outposts, and peering through a spyglass into a torrential storm.

Players can increase their reputation by completing objectives for various NPC trading companies stationed at island outposts.

Not exact matches

Intelligence assessments say the missile platforms were moved to the outposts in the Spratly Islands within the past 30 days, according to sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

UAF has worked extensively with both institutional and commercial partners in Alaska and in recent years, using drones to monitor sea lion populations in the Aleutian Islands, conduct ice flow and environmental surveying missions for NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, inspect pipelines for oil and gas giant BP and assist a Russian tanker during a dangerous late - season fuel delivery to the remote Alaskan outpost of Nome.

During the past decade, the island became an important outpost to online poker, and some of the world's biggest companies have relocated to the island, including Rational Group, the owner of websites like PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker.

It has an immense Naval build up, an active «area denial» system of missiles specifically designed against US aircraft carriers, and a build up on international reefs and islands of military runways and outposts.

The Francophonic outposts there include the Australes, Tuamotos, Marquesas, and Society Islands (which contain Tahiti, Moorea and Bora - Bora).

The legislation would bolster what the council did in 2014, when it passed rules booting immigration agents from its outpost on Rikers Island, New York City's main jail complex, and restricted the city's cooperation with the federal government.

Outposts painted a vivid image of these remote, pristine Indian Ocean islands.

When I was at school I came across Outposts by Simon Winchester, which featured a chapter about each of the remaining British overseas territories that still dot the globe; some well known, like Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands, others perhaps less so, like Anguilla and the British Indian Ocean Territory.

Ascension Island wasn't the only outpost of the British Empire to worry about its fresh water supply (7 June, p...

Like the finches observed by Darwin in the Galápagos Islands, genetically distinct subspecies of squirrels, lizards, ants, and lichens have evolved on different outposts.

This site was chosen because it too resembles Mars — though not as closely as Devon Island — and is considerably cheaper and easier to maintain and reach than the FMARS outpost.

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands are administered from the Falkland Islands as a British Overseas Territory, in which the little outpost of Grytviken is the only inhabited spot.

It feels more quiet, more isolated — while on Maui, you could almost wave to someone on the Big Island on a clear day, whereas there's only one small island visible from Kauai, a remote outpost home to a few hundred former farmworkers, with no stores and no commercial transit options to get Island on a clear day, whereas there's only one small island visible from Kauai, a remote outpost home to a few hundred former farmworkers, with no stores and no commercial transit options to get island visible from Kauai, a remote outpost home to a few hundred former farmworkers, with no stores and no commercial transit options to get there.

A satisfyingly tense desert - island thriller — just without the desert island — the action this time around is set at a Norwegian outpost (the one referenced by the guys at the U.S. - run Antarctic outpost at the beginning of Carpenter's film).

He could take the man to Mesca Rho, but the island was only an outpost.

The Trailhead will be the Catalina Island Conservancy's new Avalon outpost.

Christmas Island is a tiny island in the vast Indian Ocean, an outpost of Australia on the fringes of Asia, famous for wildlife encounters both topside and underIsland is a tiny island in the vast Indian Ocean, an outpost of Australia on the fringes of Asia, famous for wildlife encounters both topside and underisland in the vast Indian Ocean, an outpost of Australia on the fringes of Asia, famous for wildlife encounters both topside and underwater.

Looming in front of us was one of the island chain's biggest island, Prince of Wales Island, home to a smattering of Native American villages, remote logging outposts, more black bears than there are humans, and a former salmon cannery now turned Alaska's premier fishing resort, Waterfall Resort Alaska, my home for the next fourisland chain's biggest island, Prince of Wales Island, home to a smattering of Native American villages, remote logging outposts, more black bears than there are humans, and a former salmon cannery now turned Alaska's premier fishing resort, Waterfall Resort Alaska, my home for the next fourisland, Prince of Wales Island, home to a smattering of Native American villages, remote logging outposts, more black bears than there are humans, and a former salmon cannery now turned Alaska's premier fishing resort, Waterfall Resort Alaska, my home for the next fourIsland, home to a smattering of Native American villages, remote logging outposts, more black bears than there are humans, and a former salmon cannery now turned Alaska's premier fishing resort, Waterfall Resort Alaska, my home for the next four days.

When Paul Adams came to Roatan in the mid-1960s to establish a scuba diving outpost, he found a sleepy island with just a handful of small fishing villages, and no roads to speak of.

The thriving dive industry of the Gili Islands is centred here (although some operators have outposts on the other two islands), and since about 2005, the island has gone through a massive development boom, and a number of upscale sleeping, eating and drinking establishments have Islands is centred here (although some operators have outposts on the other two islands), and since about 2005, the island has gone through a massive development boom, and a number of upscale sleeping, eating and drinking establishments have islands), and since about 2005, the island has gone through a massive development boom, and a number of upscale sleeping, eating and drinking establishments have opened.

And at Atlantis, the adults - focused Cove resort now has an outpost of Sip Sip restaurant, Julie Lightbourn's Harbour Island favorite, while the family - friendly Coral Towers debuted a new lobby, guest rooms, and pool courtesy of star hotel designer Jeffrey Beers.

Like all of the Channel Islands, Santa Cruz Island was used as an early warning outpost for observing enemy planes and ships during World War II.

Dive into fabled Balinese culture and unique island discoveries from your luxurious Bali resort outpost...

Just south of Samui Airport, Bophut is one of the oldest settlements on the island, a former fishing village that was the main French outpost in times past.

La Perouse, a historic suburb named after the French navigator Jean - François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (1741 — 88), is notable for its old military outpost at Bare Island and the Botany Bay National Park.

But Jakarta, Java and Lombok are attracting a growing numbers of visitors, and remote outposts such as the Gili Islands are becoming popular with surfers, scuba divers and travellers keen to get off the beaten track.

Enjoy dinner under the stars at a remote and beautiful outpost that borders a «small» sheep station of 2.5 million acres — a special experience Globus had included to make sure your Australia vacation is unique.Other highlights of this Australia tour include an excursion to Kangaroo Island to see Australian sea lions, koalas, kangaroos, wallabies, and New Zealand fur seals in one of the world's last unspoiled habitats.

There are jet - ski rentals and an assortment of tour and cruise departures from this outpost, including all - inclusive Fraser Island Adventure Tours.

Wander the scenic streets of Savannakhet, then head south to Champasak to visit the Khmer outpost at Wat Phu before escaping further south to the stunning Four Thousand Islands, losing yourself in a hammock on Don Dhet or in a colonial villa on Don Khon.

Dive into fabled Balinese culture and unique island discoveries from your luxurious Bali resort outpost on the island's most sought - after stretch of shore.

As the ultimate gift for the person who has everything, guests will venture close to the island's most well known inhabitants, the thousands of King Penguins that call this remote outpost home.

Experience shark diving at its finest from a liveaboard around Malpelo Island, a forbidding Pacific outpost teeming with silkys, hammerheads and more.

The second Yggdrasil's dew for cooldown can be found at northeastern side of the island with the Light Elf Outpost.

The option to go loud or quiet makes so much more sense when you've got more freedom to move around and decide what direction you want to attack from, and because outposts on the island are separate you can get a nice mix of action going, swapping from the sneaky sneaky to the shooty shooty.

Among these will be Shark Island, a new map where orcs have claimed an abandoned trading outpost near the banks of the Dusty River.

A Viking is worth one point of influence while an outpost is worth two, and whoever controls the island gains victory points equal to the number of tiles the island is made up of.

Importantly another outpost can not be built if any of its tiles would have to use a tile that has already been used for a different outpost, so on small islands a single outpost can stop other players from building there.