Sentences with phrase «pacific island base»

Though largely fictionalized, this is a moving report of the defense of the Pacific Island base, with strong emphasis on the heroic gallantry of three Manrines, played by Robert Preston, Brian Donlevy, and William Bendix.

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The Japanese had been planning to seize Midway Island to use as a base for future attacks against the US in Hawaii and the Pacific.

The U.S. Air Force said the B - 52s took off from Andersen Air Force Base on the U.S. Pacific island of Guam and «transited to the vicinity of the South China Sea» on Tuesday.

Perth - based Decmil Group has won a contract to provide temporary accommodation for ConocoPhillips workers at the Australia Pacific LNG facility on Curtis Island for an undisclosed sum.

«We would view with great concern the establishment of any foreign military bases in those Pacific island countries and neighbors of ours.»

«Under climate change, the Pacific Islands region is projected to become warmer, less oxygenated, more acidic, and have lower production of plankton that form the base of oceanic food webs,» said lead author Rebecca Asch, Nereus Program alumnus and Assistant Professor at East Carolina University.

Lt. Burt Baskin was a World War II Navy quartermaster running a PX at a base on the South Pacific island of New Hebrides when he made a fateful swap with a supply officer off a visiting aircraft carrier.

At some point, their ancestors flew to Hawaii, but we can't tell if they came from North America, Asia, or the Pacific Islands — they really could have come from anywhere based on what we know now.»

«Based on linguistic analysis including computational phylogenetics,» Sicoli writes, «we suggest the prehistory of South Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, and the Pacific Northwest Coast involved intensive language contacts, including language shifts from now extinct languages that we can infer through typological features, grammar and vocabulary found in languages documented in historic periods.»

Used primarily in the Pacific theater of operations, the B - 29 Superfortress was designed as a long - range heavy bomber capable of reaching the Japanese islands from bases in China and the Pacific.

The Manukau Family Literacy Program, run by the City of Manukau Education Trust, is based in the island nation's third - largest city, which has a significant concentration of Maoris (the country's first inhabitants) and Pacific Islanders who have had little formal schooling.

-- in the new globile world it doesn't matter whether you are based in the USA, China or some tiny island in the Pacific.

The hotel features magnificent views of the Pacific Ocean and the island's five mountains including Mauna Kea, the world's tallest mountain when measured from its base on the sea floor.

During the Pacific War, the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands was fought north of the Santa Cruz group and some sea planes were based in Graciosa Bay, with one reportedly having sunk there.

These additional aircraft bring Pacific Coastal Airlines» fleet to a total of twenty two aircraft, including its seaplane division based in Port Hardy on Northern Vancouver Island.

Pacific Coastal Airlines» seaplane base operates out of Port Hardy on Vancouver Island and from there provides service to a large number destinations along the coast.

Includes Ecuador's Cotopaxi volcano, the scenic railway to the Pacific coast and a land - based Galápagos Island adventure w...

Pacific Coastal Airlines» seaplane base operates out of Port Hardy on Vancouver Island and from there provides service to a large number of destinations along the coast.

Based in the Cook Islands, Pacific Resort Hotel Group currently owns and operates two of the country's leading properties, and has undertaken management of two other properties, as well as another two partner hotel's, with plans for further development in the future.

Port Hardy's inner harbor shelters its state - of - the - art Seaplane Base offering service from Pacific Coastal Airlines and Vancouver Island Helicopters.

Dolphin Island offers a superb luxury «castaway» experience to a maximum of just eight guests, on an exclusive - use basis, within the privacy of their very own 14 - acre South Pacific tropical paradise - surrounded by crystal - clear, blue waters, palm trees, golden sand and fragrant flowers.

Cramp is now the program manager for the Pacific Islands Conservation Initiative, a nonprofit environmental group based in the Cook Islands:

The article described how a computer wizard at Skytruth, based in Shepherdstown, W. Va., was able to help a poaching patrol in Palau, a tiny Pacific island nation with a vast marine economic zone, intercept a rogue Taiwanese fishing vessel fleeing toward Indonesia.

Masdar expands its solar ambitions to the South Pacific The tiny kingdom of Tonga in the south pacific has just signed a memorandum of understanding with the Abu Dhabi based company Masdar for a 500 KW solar project to be built on the island of Vava» inPacific The tiny kingdom of Tonga in the south pacific has just signed a memorandum of understanding with the Abu Dhabi based company Masdar for a 500 KW solar project to be built on the island of Vava» inpacific has just signed a memorandum of understanding with the Abu Dhabi based company Masdar for a 500 KW solar project to be built on the island of Vava» in Tonga.

If New Zealand introduces a climate refugee visa, 100 Pacific Islanders could be granted access on the basis that their home islands are threatened by rising seas.

«Since 1990, surface ocean pH has directly been measured or calculated at several locations, with the average recent decrease estimated as 0.0019 pH units per year at the Hawaii Ocean Time - series (HOT; close to the site of long - term atmospheric CO2 measurements at Mauna Loa)[12]; 0.0017 per year based on transects in the North Pacific [13]; 0.0012 per year at the Bermuda Atlantic Time - Series (BATS)[14] and 0.0017 per year at the European Station for Time - Series in the Ocean at the Canary Islands (ESTOC)[15].

Simply stated, this study again confirms that doomsday prognostications based on climate model simulations have no relation to the actual Pacific island / atoll reality during periods of sea rise.

Hi Zachary, We are building disaster safe homes for the islands of the South Pacific from our base in New Zealand.

That heritage is the driving force behind major conservation efforts to deal with the with pollution coming in from other areas of the world, the pollution generated on the island during the time it was used as a military base, and the legacy of invasive species brought in since the island was first used by the Pacific Cable Company in the early 1900s.

Samoa Air, a small airline based on the Samoa Islands in the Pacific, has started charging its passengers based on the total weight of their luggage and their... bodies.

There are two island based stations which continuously measure air and seawater CO2 (and a lot of other data), which are used to calculate seasonal fluxes over the North Atlantic and the Pacific oceans.

Experience of work involving: the Cayman Islands, the BVI, Antigua & Barbuda, Jersey, India and the Solomon Islands where Patrick has been called to the Bar on an ad hoc basis and appeared as an advocate before the Western Pacific Court of Appeal.

Having served as a US Navy «Seebee» dismantling bases in the Pacific islands following World War II, he has always proudly personified that battalion's «Can Do» motto.

A Democrat, he'll have to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate to this lifetime appointment on the nation's largest federal appellate court, based in San Francisco and serving nine western states and two Pacific Island jurisdictions.

Samoa's island location in the South Pacific will provide the San Jose, Calif. - based SunWize team with a number of logistical challenges throughout the project's duration.