Sentences with phrase «low islands archipelago»

They passed through the Low Islands archipelago, with Darwin remarking that they had «a very uninteresting appearance; a long brilliantly white beach is capped by a low bright line of green vegetation.»

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The low - lying island nation offers the scientists a unique opportunity to reconstruct climate conditions during previous periods of varying sea levels to help scientists better understand how future climate change will the effect the 1,000 km - long archipelago and low - lying coastal areas all around the world.

The islands of the Japanese archipelago are affected both by frequent, low - magnitude earthquakes and tremors and by larger, highly destructive events.

Elevated land - based islands could protect people living in low - lying areas from tsunamis — and archipelagos of them could form entire towns

Darwin is one of Isabela's six volcanoes, a remarkable contrast to the lower islands to the east of the archipelago.

Day 6 Full - day island visit to either North Seymour, a small flat island surrounded by low cliffs, South Plaza, an uplifted slab of sea floor, Bartolomé, characterised by a high volcanic crater or Santa Fe, one of the oldest islands of the archipelago.

An island archipelago in the path of the Atlantic lows and depressions.

The Maldives, an archipelago of around 2,000 islands in the Indian Ocean, includes some of world's most low - lying islands.