Sentences with phrase «north island as»

Explore the cosmopolitan city of Auckland and the award - winning wineries and geothermal wonders of the North Island as well as the glaciers, fjords and adventure capital, Queenstown, on the South Island.

Loosely, you can describe North Island as more luscious, with some truly stunning coastlines, white sand beaches, geysers, capital city Wellington, and Hobbiton itself.

The ultimate way to experience the world's leading tropical island hideaway, with North Island as your own exclusive playground, tailor - made to your every wish.

Not exact matches

While trafficking routes have changed over time, in recent years narco subs and other vessels leaving southwest Colombia or northwest Ecuador laden with drug cargos often head out in the Pacific, even around the Galapagos Islands, before turning north in an effort to skirt law enforcement closer to home — which may include underwater sensors in Colombian waters — as well as US - led interdiction efforts.

Pinker took an in - depth look at the life - long habits of centenarians in Sardinia, an Italian island that boasts six times as many centenarians as the mainland, and ten times as many as North America.

The storm passed just to the north of the island of Hispaniola, shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti, damaging roofs and causing flooding and power outages as it approached the Haitian side.

The storm passed just to the north of the island of Hispaniola, shared by Dominican Republic and Haiti, causing some damage to roofs, flooding and power outages as it approached the impoverished Haitian side, which is particularly vulnerable to hurricanes and rain, although it did not make landfall.

Although the particular coastline of Vancouver Island I was fishing this summer is not directly on the proposed tanker route, any sizeable oil spill along the north coast of British Columbia would have consequences here as well.

The pilot was identified as Maj. Jose Rafael Roman, from Manati on the island's north coast.

The stage - two project, announced on Saturday, will involve drilling new wells in the offshore Gorgon and Jansz - Io fields, as well as pipelines and other subsea equipment to connect the wells into the major gas gathering system located off the north - west of Barrow Island.

Puerto Rico gets much of its electricity from large central power plants on the southern coast of the island and transmits power to load centers on its north side, as you can see on this map of the island's transmission system.

In 1924, the mansions of Long Island's North Shore were still in their full glory, as was the political power of the class that owned them.

After almost ten years of North American maneuvering, the U.N. Committee on Decolonization declared the island a colonial territory (over the protest of the U.S. and most of the island's population — who argued that in 1953, when Puerto Rico became a so - called «commonwealth» as a result of a popular election, it ceased to be a colony and became instead a «free associated state»).

These conquests served later as bases for further expansion in the east into Central Asia and the Indus Valley, and in the west to North Africa, Spain, and some of the islands of the Mediterranean.

Along with the production brewery and Taproom on Fulton and Wood Streets, the brewing company operates the original Goose Island Brewhouse in Lincoln Park as well as the renowned barrel - aging warehouse at 605 North Sacramento Boulevard.

North Island Wine Jobs — Find wine jobs in such North Island areas as the Auckland area, Northland, Matakana, Kumeu / Huapai, Henderson, Waiheke Island, Clevedon, Bay of Plenty, Waikato, Hamilton area, Gisborne, Hawke's Bay, Wairarapa / Martinborough, and the Wellington area.

Sponsorship: To display corporate identity, logos, or branded information on approximately 40 Portable Commissary Carts used for the sale of non-alcoholic beverages, beer, wine, liquor and snacks located at Metro - North's Grand Central Terminal and Long Island Rail Road's high traffic stations such as Pennsylvania Station.

About W Retreat & Spa — Vieques Island W Retreat & Spa - Vieques Island opened its doors on March 25, 2010 as the first W Retreat & Spa in North America.

Of course youcould do far worse things in north Vallejo in the 1990s, especially in theSabathias» neighborhood, known as the Crest, where you could cruise up GatewayDrive to get drugs, and bleary - eyed men banged on the windows of passing cars.But Mare Island hadn't yet been shut down, and the Crest felt more hardworkingthan crime - ridden because the men hadn't gone away.

Blueberry Island, sometimes known as «picnic island,» is located at the very north end of Lake JIsland, sometimes known as «picnic island,» is located at the very north end of Lake Jisland,» is located at the very north end of Lake Joseph.

Those states are Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and Wyoming, [As an authors note: I am happy to say that my states protects breastfeeding mothers in public, from indecency laws, and at work!]

Her formative years as an ornithologist were spent on Great Gull Island, NY, home to the largest colonies of Common and Roseate Terns in the North Atlantic.

As such, all flashpoints from the disputes over the Senkaku / Diaoyu islands to North Korea can be attributed to the inability of the global community to settle the crisis ending in 1945.

North Hempstead Town Supervisor Jodi Bosworth and Yianni Biniaris listen to biologist Eric Powers as he holds one of the 2,000 bats enjoying a robust summer diet of mosquitoes at Clark Botanic Garden in Albertson, Long Island.

Oddo, along with other «North Shore stakeholders» as he called them — Snug Harbor Cultural Center, the Staten Island Yankees and the St. George Theatre — met with Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen about their concerns and she was told «the mayor's office needs to take charge of this and compel the appropriate agencies to act now,» Oddo said.

Robert Castro, 62, of Port Richmond, said he was asked to step down as North Shore district leader for the Staten Island Democratic Party and was offered a position as the Hispanic Outreach coordinator for the party — but the promised spot never was given to him, the Staten Island Advance first reported.

Earlier this year, after de Blasio didn't visit the Brooklyn station where an Long Island Railroad train derailed, he noted it wasn't of the same «magnitude» as the Metro North crash, since nobody died.

PRI said in its statement that its business at Long Island's North Shore University Hospital had come «because we had many of its doctors as clients» and added it was a «competitive business and we did offer good rates to get it.»

After all, he's the man who will negotiate the new state budget and have a major say on such issues as raising the minimum wage, getting bad teachers out of the classroom and increasing funding for buses and subways, as well as Metro - North and the Long Island Rail Road.

The club's centennial celebration is honoring state Insurance Department Superintendent James Wrynn as its Man of the Year, state Assemblywoman Cathy Nolan (D - Ridgewood) as is Legislator of the Year, North Shore - Long Island Jewish Health System Director of Government Relations Rosemary Kelly as its Woman of the Year and Freddy Delligatti, business agent for Plumbers Union Local 1 and vice president of the Queens Board of Business Agents, as its Labor Advocate of the Year.

Affluent areas of the north Bronx and eastern Queens have become hot spots as well, reflecting the heavy opioid pill abuse and heroin use in the surrounding suburbs in Westchester County and on Long Island.

Long Island Democrats are increasingly optimistic — thanks to a federal judge, Republican rivalries, and what they see as a lagging Trump campaign — that they'll be able to hold on to the North Shore's Third Congressional District seat being vacated by longtime US Rep. Steve Israel, the outgoing chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

The group called for the Districting Commission to adopt a map that does not extend so far north into the Bronx and that includes Randall's Island and parts of El Barrio — such as portions of the Lexington and Carver Houses — that were removed.

«For all that you hear about difference between regions of the state, when we meet as a group there are a tremendous number of issues that unite county governments from Long Island to the North Country to the Niagara Frontier,» Picente said.

His tough stance as a military commander in 1983 - when some Nigerian islands were annexed in Lake Chad by Chadian soldiers - is still remembered in the north - east, now the militants» stronghold, after he blockaded the area and drove off the invaders.

«This is not just a Long Island issue — this is a North Country issue as well,» he wrote.

Titone (D - North Shore), said «I believe that I can do so much as Staten Island Surrogate and I believe that I'm truly the most qualified person to sit in this seat.»

He worked for American companies in South Korea before returning home several years ago, settling with his family on Grand Island and going to work as a lawyer for Delaware North Cos..

Although the Republic of Cyprus is recognized as the sole legitimate state — sovereign over all [dubious — discuss] the island — the north is under the de facto administration of the self - declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, which is guarded by Turkish Armed Forces.

«At times it's hard for me to think that I'm leaving the New York Assembly, it's almost heartbreaking because I absolutely love the job and I love serving the North Shore of Staten Island as a legislator,» said Titone.

«I might as well talk to a wall, but at least it's on the record,» said Jeanette Deutermann, a North Bellmore mother of two and leading organizer of test boycotts on the Island.

A wicked evening thunder storm left nearly 3,500 homes on the North Fork briefly without power or dealing with some service loss as of 9 p.m.Monday night, according to the Long Island Power Authority.

The county lots are located at: the H. Lee Dennison Building and the North County Complex in Hauppauge, the Cohalan Court Complex in Central Islip and the Riverhead County Center, as well as county - owned parking lots at the Long Island Railroad stations in Brentwood, Ronkonkoma and Deer Park.

Jeanette Deutermann of North Bellmore, a parent and former teacher who founded Long Island Opt Out, a grass - roots network, dismissed the modifications made by the state — from fewer questions and unlimited time to take the exams to a moratorium on a link to teacher evaluations — as «tweaks.»

As yet another Greenport resident demanded to know why the latest proposal to run an electrical cable from the North Fork to Shelter Island would succeed where the last attempt by the Long Island Power Authority had failed, Christopher Hahn, the director of external affairs for PSEG - Long Island, began to speak louder.

Uniformed and plainclothes presence at Grand Central Terminal and Penn Station as well has other major stations throughout the Metro - North Railroad and Long Island Railroad networks have been beefed up.

Hodge also described a report in the Guardian that offshore companies in the British Virgin Islands and Anguilla had allegedly been used to circumvent US sanctions against North Korea as disturbing.

ALBANY, NY — Separate audits of Metro - North Railroad and the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) found they failed to properly manage overtime paid by funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), allowing abuses such as allowing some conductors to charge overtime for tasks such as washing up for work, New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli announced today.

The North Country, Western New York and Long Island were chosen, along with Central New York, as the best.

The North Fork has been noted as one of the most sensitive areas on the island and the state Department of Environmental Conservation has the entire state under a drought watch.