Sentences with phrase «island chain of»

Ok well first up here's a surf report and a hand full of images sent through to us from our friends up at the Kandui Surf Resort in the Mentawai Island chain of Sumatra.

Filling out the display are farming and ranching tools, island silverware, the island chain of title from the King of Spain, Stanton's book of memoirs, photographs of island life and paintings from the late 19th Century to contemporary times.

The Beagle Channel - This strait in the archipelago island chain of Tierra del Fuego, offers views of Ushuaia's stunning coastal landscape.

Located about three hours by air from French Polynesia's main island of Tahiti and steeped in both history and adventure, the Marquesas is a lost - in - time island chain of dramatic volcanic cliffs shrouded in mystical clouds, and the final resting place of the South Pacific's most famous artist.

Follow the team from the Arctic to the Amazon and from the the remote island chain of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands to all 14 US National Marine Sanctuaries.

As the plates drift across the hot spots, a chain of volcanoes forms — such as the island chains of Hawaii and Samoa.

They will redeploy on July 21 to continue exploring more of the uncharted ocean near the island chains of Sangihe and Talaud.

Geography: The second largest of the former West Indies Associated States, the avocado - shaped St. Lucia lies between Martinique and St. Vincent in the Windward Islands chain of the eastern Caribbean.

Not exact matches

For example, interest in the Maldives — an island chain southwest of India that is fighting rising sea levels — jumped 68 percent from 2016 to 2017.

Shares of Long Island Ice Tea Corp. tripled in price after it renamed itself Long Blockchain last month, and those of a franchisee of the Hooters restaurant chain jumped last week after it said it would move into the space.

Swezey & Newins Inc., which operates the small chain of Swezey's department stores on New York's Long Island, faced a dilemma.

«We ramped up our overhead so we could handle the explosive growth of a company that goes public,» recounts Thomas DeJordy, owner of Cafe La France, a Rhode Island - based restaurant chain that was supposed to do its IPO in 1996.

One of the main areas that China's expansion has focused on has been the Spratly Island chain close to the Philippines.

This island chain is in dispute, with Japan claiming that two of the Kuril Islands were seized by the Soviet Union following World War II and actually belong to Japan.

Within the sea is the Kuril Island chain, which links Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido with the Russian Kamchatka PeniIsland chain, which links Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido with the Russian Kamchatka Peniisland of Hokkaido with the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula.

Many of the islands along the chains in the Pacific have geopolitical significance beyond their mere location — several are modern - day colonies of Western states.

While much of the Canadian focus has been on China and India, Beijing has increasingly been engaging countries along the island chains.

Conceived by former US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles (1953 - 1959), it maintains that if the West is to geopolitically contain China, it must control three chains of islands in the Asia Pacific, as shown below.

The theoretical basis of Paskal's argument was the «Island Chain Defence Theory.»

These hurricanes form from a tropical depression or tropical wave that passes through or near that chain of islands, and then eventually strengthens into a named system (finally becoming a hurricane at some point) in the mid-Atlantic.

Because the storm destroyed much of the already limited stock of affordable housing throughout the island chain, he couldn't find much of anything.

After collecting data in Rhode Island, she wrote an article for the Providence Journal, describing in vivid detail the treatment of one Abraham Simmons whom she had found chained in a seven by seven cell in Little Compton, with no window and no heat.

In Miami's Little Havana (miamiandthebeaches.com), you can stroll the Calle Ocho sampling legit cortaditos (Cuban coffee), investing in modestly priced paintings imported from the island and dancing the afternoon away to the sounds of the salseros playing on street corners or at Ball & Chain, the lounge where Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong once played.

Cummings says the chain also is one of the only stores on the island to offer certified Angus beef.

Selection and freshness are two of the most important keys to success for a supermarket chain, and that goes double in places like the islands of the Caribbean.

In 2010, CDG acquired a chain of retail stores known as Big Daddy's, allowing for the distribution group to etch out an even larger share of the beer, wines and spirits market on the islands.

The trip would take me to the Exuma Cays (pronounced «keys»), a chain of 365 stunning, coral islands that end at the Tropic of Cancer.

Food and Drink - Fall 2011 -(Page 157) Le Grand Marche > r RETAIL Island Leader Le Grand Marche is the biggest supermarket chain on St. Maarten because of its selection and by catering to its customers.

election and freshness are two of the most important keys to success for a supermarket chain, and that goes double in places like the islands of the Caribbean.

Just days after Pennsylvania's Victory Brewing announced it would merge with New York's Southern Tier to form the family office - backed Artisanal Brewing Ventures, a pair of established breweries — Chicago's Goose Island and Delaware - based brewpub chain Iron Hill — today announced transactions of their own.

William Lavelle, head of the Irish Spirits Association, said: «We will continue to press to ensure that the final agreement protects our integrated all - island spirits industry and our cross-border supply chains.

«The history of the Second World War shows the importance of Vanuatu and the Pacific Island chain to Australia's security,» WA Liberal MP and former army officer Andrew Hastie told The Australian Financial Review.

Tahiti, an island which is part of a southern Pacific island chain, has a tropical climate that makes it an ideal location for growing vanilla.

Indonesia is comprised of a chain of some 18,000 islands stretching across 5,000 miles in the South China Sea.

Turtle Island is situated in the Yasawa Chain of islands, and sits approximately 50 miles North of mainland Fiji (island of Viti Island is situated in the Yasawa Chain of islands, and sits approximately 50 miles North of mainland Fiji (island of Viti island of Viti Levu).

We aimed to examine the availability of snack food displays at checkouts, end - of - aisle displays and island displays in major supermarket chains in the least and most socioeconomically disadvantaged neighbourhoods of Melbourne.

The Yasawa chain, like most outlaying islands of Fiji, is not connected to the Government operated power network run by FEA (Fiji Electricity Authority).

There are only three pinpricks of land within 1,000 miles of the Hawaiian chain, and so the islands have a constant surge around them, a surge that is often mild but at times strong when the violence of remote storms awakens again in the shoaling waters.

Daenerys Targaryen and Khalasar 2.0; Tyrion Lannister and the Awkward Moments crew; red ladies new and old; the Night King and / or the Night's King; White Walkers and walking wights; Rickon Stark; Ramsay Bolton; Bran and Benjen Stark; Euron Greyjoy and the handful of men it takes to build a thousand ships built from timber cut from a rocky chain of islands; Lady Crane and Tits McMurderface; King Tommen and Ser Pounce; the Sand Snakes lol Dorne never happened, okay?

They are drawn to an island chain that is thought of as one of the last undeveloped places on Earth, famous for lush greenery and clear seas.

Grenada, Carriacou & Petite Martinique are three beautiful islands in the Windward chain of islands, threaded by the Caribbean Sea, connecting North and South America.

Free of the hustle and bustle of some of the larger islands within the Hawaiian chain, Lanai is the perfect place for you and your family to experience the relaxation and natural beauty of this tropical paradise without having to fight for a spot on the beach.

A new base has been included in this year «s effort: sailors on an island in the middle of the Aleutian chain.

Teamsters Local 237, a union that represents more than 30,000 government workers in the city and parts of Long Island, has thrown its support behind Heidi Harrison Chain, one of five Democratic candidates vying for Melinda Katz's (D - Forest Hills) Council seat.

That's not surprising, since each of the Shelter Island 4 - Posters cost $ 5,000 a year to maintain and fears persist that potentially harmful pesticides might find their way into the environment and the food chain.

Residents of the United States Virgin Islands said Friday that the island of St. Thomas, which is the center of the chain's cruise ship industry, had suffered significant damage from Hurricane Irma.

A state Appellate Division panel has determined exotic dancers employed by a Newburgh - area chain of gentlemen's clubs are employees, thus sustaining previous administrative decisions that concluded Exotic Island Enterprises and Sliffer Enterprises were on the hook to pay additional unemployment insurance contributions.

On the same day as upstate protests, UFT members on March 24 picketed the offices of Republican senators Andrew Lanza on Staten Island and Marty Golden in Bay Ridge to tell them that our public schools — not wealthy charter chains — need their support.

The New York City projects are (1) «The Big U», a series of berms and bridges around lower Manhattan, (2) «Living Breakwaters», a series of breakwaters off the south shore of Staten Island, and (3) «Lifelines», to provide flood protection systems for Hunts Point, the site of a major food market that functions as a hub of the region's food supply chain.

The chief financial officer of Soupman Inc., a Staten Island - based chain made famous by «Seinfeld,» pleaded guilty on Monday to...