Sentences with phrase «ocean island from»

Harri Kallio built life - size three - foot - tall models of the extinct dodo and set them down in Mauritius, the Indian Ocean island from which they were driven to extinction three centuries ago.

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The top five cities in Africa are Cape Town, Marrakesh, Johannesburg, Nairobi and Casablanca, although listings are found in diverse locations from St Helena island in the south Atlantic Ocean to Freetown in Sierra Leone, and even a smattering in Somalia.

Damn the American consumer who dares to pay for such frivolities, never mind the fact that we spend more than $ 10 billion a year on bottles of stuff that otherwise flows freely from our taps — and one of the most popular brands ships its product in from a tiny island in the Pacific Ocean.

Malaysia's deputy transport minister says it is «almost certain» that the wreckage found on Reunion island in the Indian Ocean this week is from a Boeing 777 — the same type of aircraft as missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.

From our elevated position, the lush green jungle tumbled down the hillside to the ocean below, and the neighboring island of Phangnan loomed large on the horizon.

Kohl says that there will be enough supply to meet the demand over the next decade in Greater Vancouver, although Fraser Valley gravel sources on land will become depleted, necessitating the transport of gravel by ocean barge from Texada Island.

Southern Ocean Lodge, Kangaroo Island - discover Australia's wildlife from a spectacular property in the Southern Hemisphere.

He writes about the sixteen days he spent sailing the Pacific Ocean with five buddies and a crate of canned meat, the time he took his kids on a world tour to eat ice cream with heads of state, his stubbornness in getting into law school by sitting on a bench outside the dean's office for seven days until they finally let him enroll, his «office» at Tom Sawyer Island at Disneyland, the flowers he sent to the elderly woman who nearly killed him running a stop sign, the work he's done to free Ugandan children from prison.

Consider the island of Hispañola in 1492, Tenochtitlan in 1519, and Cajamarca in 1532, where formidable oceans, mountains, and deserts protected no one from invading Europeans.

Danish archeologists working on the island of Bahrain in «the (Persian) Gulf» have now discovered there was lively trade across the Indian Ocean, using the Monsoons, from Yemen and Oman to the Indus cultures.

It includes Weaver's wonderful essay, «Up From Liberalism,» which is the account of a young man leaving his liberalism behind as he discovers that «we are inhabitants of a fruitful and well - ordered island surrounded by an ocean of ontological mystery.

Seafood lovers found shrimps, squid and fish from the ocean as well as from the nearby Lago Trasimeno (when visiting Piacere Barbecue next year, be sure make a stop at that wonderful lake and take the little ferryboat to the island within).

Hello Gavin: The recipe you seek is from the Mascarene Islands in the Indian Ocean.

- Gustavo Calderon, executive chef, 3800 Ocean at Palm Beach Marriott Singer Island Beach Resort & Spa (Riviera Beach, Fla.) «I hope kale and miso disappear from every menu.»

The island is a little paradise in the Indian Ocean, 1,100 kilometers away from Madagascar.

A short boat ride away from the Main Island lies a separate water village of «The Ocean Pearls»; 16 overwater villas perched on platforms overlooking the iridescent ocean, complete with own fine - dining restaurant and team of private butOcean Pearls»; 16 overwater villas perched on platforms overlooking the iridescent ocean, complete with own fine - dining restaurant and team of private butocean, complete with own fine - dining restaurant and team of private butlers.

It was not until 1990 and the discovery of an old tin containing hundreds of black and white photos from the early Ocean Island days that the reality of what they had spoken of finally came to life.

Also at 11 a.m., officials from NYPA, NYC HHC, Coney Island Hospital and National Grid will be joined by state and local officials to announce the completion of a $ 21 million storm resiliency and energy efficiency project at the hospital, Hospital Auditorium, 2601 Ocean Pkwy., Brooklyn.

OCEAN BREEZE — Staten Island University Hospital is set to receive $ 28 million to protect itself from future storms — including raising the building's power systems, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced.

Brookhaven Town Supervisor Ed Romaine (R), who wrote two letters to Zinke, one opposing drilling in the Atlantic and Arctic oceans and another one requesting a hearing on Long Island, read from one of the letters.

From 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer and deputy comptrollers hear testimony about the city's Hurricane Sandy recovery efforts as Stringer hosts the second hearing of his office's Sandy Oversight Unit; Coney Island Hospital, 2601 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn.

At 4 months old, the pups are weaned and begin a voyage from the Pribilof Islands of Alaska through the Bering Sea and North Pacific Ocean that can last for 20 months before they return to the iIslands of Alaska through the Bering Sea and North Pacific Ocean that can last for 20 months before they return to the islandsislands.

HOW SWEET Long before humans inhabited Polynesia, sweet potatoes may have been carried across the ocean from South America to the South Pacific islands by wind, water or maybe even birds.

Divers from the Rothera Research Station in Antarctica monitor heated panels, designed to mimic ocean warming, on the seabed near Adelaide Island.

On its surface, the presence of Australasian genes might seem to indicate that people had sailed from that area across the Pacific Ocean to the Americas, but that genetic signature does not show up in people in the Pacific islands, which likely would have been along the route.

So far we have spent 3.5 days crossing the Southern Ocean from the Falkland Islands, a week undertaking a geophysical survey of Marguerite Bay on the western Antarctic Peninsula, and 2 days in transit «around the point» into the northwestern Weddell Sea.

Rattus detentus, a Rodent of Unusual Size: On Manus Island, separated from New Guinea by about 100 miles of ocean, researchers found one of the largest rats known from the Melanesian archipelago, a particularly rich region for rat diversity, according to the April study in the Journal of Mammalogy.

The Falkland Islands and surrounding South Atlantic Ocean are teeming with fish, birds, and opportunities for scientific collaboration, according to a letter published this month in Science & Diplomacy, a quarterly publication from AAAS.

University of Washington oceanographers used clues from the Galapagos Islands — a dot in the middle of the Pacific Ocean — to trace El Niño patterns and seasonal tropical rains over the past 2,000 years.

Refugees who survive the treacherous ocean crossing from Turkey to Greece wait in makeshift camps on the island of Lesbos, wondering about their next move

The island sits directly on the equator, at sea level and far from any high elevation, so what happens there is a good indication of what's happening in the wider tropical Pacific Ocean.

They wondered if genetic code from the exact same frog species could have jumped eastward from a remote island across 150 miles of Indian Ocean — then over the whole of Sumatra — then across the Strait of Malacca into the Malaysian interior?

When magma erupted from a crack in the ocean floor off El Hierro, the youngest, westernmost island, local volcanologist Vicente Soler headed out to sea, looking for answers.

The upheaval was so violent they feared the fracturing ice would tear the island from its foundation and roll it like a log into the ocean.

The theropod tracks come from a dried - up ocean floor bed very close to one of the islands.

Perry and colleagues examined sperm and blood samples from 90 men from the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic Ocean.

Some of those criticisms may be quelled by the new evidence, which comes from Spitsbergen, the largest island in the Svalbard archipelago off the coast of Norway in the Arctic Ocean.

The smoke, from fires deep in Africa, is nearly invisible to satellites in space, and because the southeast Atlantic Ocean has few islands, the layers are hard to study from below.

The largest feature that demands negotiating is the Lomonosov Ridge, which transects the Arctic Ocean, extending 1,240 miles (2,000 kilometers) from Siberia to Greenland and Canada's Ellesmere Island.

The ocean plate is descending below North America at the Cascadia subduction zone, which runs from northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, to Northern California.

To do that, this past July the HSRC team motored more than 300 kilometers west from the Haida Gwaii Islands to an ocean eddy in the fishing vessel Ocean Pocean eddy in the fishing vessel Ocean POcean Pearl.

Scientists conducting fieldwork in the region are reporting massive chick die - offs and nests with abandoned eggs, reports National Geographic's Winged Warnings series, which lays out the many threats facing the island's seabirds: warming oceans, earlier thaws, changing ocean chemistry and food webs, and increasing levels of ocean pollutants from PCBs to mercury.

The extensive methane seep mounds across the remote arctic island of Ellef Ringnes may be a caution from the past regarding potential impacts of modern warming of the Arctic Ocean.

(Those who worry about mercury contamination in fish got some good news recently: In one study conducted in the Seychelles, a group of islands in the Indian Ocean, scientists from the University of Rochester Medical Center tracked pregnant women who ate an average of 12 fish meals a week, about 10 times the quantity of fish eaten by the average American.

«The main issue is that there is only a handful of islands in the Southern Ocean and not all of them are suitable to sustain large breeding colonies» says Robin Cristofari, first author of the study, from the Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC / CNRS / University of Strasbourg) and the Centre Scientifique de Monaco (CSM).

A native of New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands in the Pacific Ocean, the New Caledonian crow makes tools from sticks or leaves and uses these to draw tasty grubs from hollows in trees.

Associate Professor of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science Amy Baco - Taylor, in collaboration with a team from Texas A&M University, observed these reefs during an autonomous underwater vehicle survey through the seamounts of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

On the beaches of the Hawaiian islands, monk seals are dying from a pathogen in cat feces that is carried to the ocean in polluted runoff and sewage

BARCELONA, SPAIN — Two major airlines have stopped transporting laboratory animals from mainland Spain to the Canary Islands, an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean.

Marine plastic pollution slowly degrades and has spread to every corner of the world's oceans, from remote islands to the ocean floor.