Sentences with phrase «pacific ocean islands»

While it's painful to leave Middle Earth, the most mythical of all Pacific Ocean islands, Bora Bora, awaits you a 5 hour, indirect flight away from Auckland.

Doubling as an effective romance, Zemeckis story of Hanks's FedEx worker Chuck Noland becoming stranded on a deserted Pacific Ocean island after a plane crash, driven to survive by the thought of returning to his girlfriend Kelly (played by Helen Hunt) is one of the director's most restrained (even the music cues by Alan Silvestri don't start till over an hour into the film) and in - command pieces of work that sees the esteemed filmmaker largely hold back on artistic flashes and instead focusing on his leading man Hanks working his magic as the determined Chuck.

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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.

The North Korean army said Wednesday it's examining operational plans for attacking the island, a military hub about 1,500 miles south of Tokyo in the Pacific Ocean.

North Korea backs off Guam threat North Korea regime announced this week that it will not target the area around Guam, a US island territory in the Pacific Ocean, quelling fears that its recent standoff with the US could lead to war.

Its interesting that sitting on a small island in the middle of the pacific ocean, I really understand what you are getting at.

It has been told in the Greek, the Latin, the Celtic, and the Teutonic languages and in the tongues of those who for millennia have moved about the islands of the Pacific ocean.»

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.

In 1960 considerable radwaste was dumped into the Pacific Ocean near the Farallon Islands just west of San Francisco.

Having lived near the ocean on Vancouver Island in the Pacific Northwest all my life, wild salmon has been always been an important part of my diet.

A combination of the pods and leaves is used to treat boils in Fiji, the Cook Islands, and Tonga in the Pacific Ocean.

Their story begins back in 1900 on a small isolated Pacific island known as Ocean Island with the discovery of a strange looking rock that turned out to be one of the purest forms of phosphate ever discoisland known as Ocean Island with the discovery of a strange looking rock that turned out to be one of the purest forms of phosphate ever discoIsland with the discovery of a strange looking rock that turned out to be one of the purest forms of phosphate ever discovered.

Jan 04,2016... Forty feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, offCalifornia's Anacapa Island, Gary Davis search...

I would far rather he is in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, but without the island.

When you are facing the ocean or watching the waves crash on Bribie Island you feel as if you are on a remote resort in the south pacific.

Did you know that there is an island made of trash and plastic the size of Texas floating in the Pacific Ocean.

I like to give the analogy that if you are living on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, growing all your own foods and gathering pure rainwater to drink, then you don't need to provide your child with supplements.

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.

The birth and death of a young volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean may shed light on the origins of volcanoes in Mars» wetter past.

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.

Residents of low - lying islands in the Pacific and Indian oceans are among those who will feel the effects of climate change to the greatest degree in the coming decades.

When an erupting volcano birthed an island in the Pacific Ocean in late 2014, scientists thought waves would erode the island away within just a few months.

«We have reason to be proud of our forefathers, who boldly ventured across the unknown waters of the vast Pacific Ocean,» reads the preamble to the Constitution of the Republic of the Marshall Islands.

Global warming is altering — and threatening to erase — much more of the Marshall Islands than the shorelines of this independent Micronesian nation that once served as a Pacific Ocean nuclear weapons test site for the U.S..

Easter Island is a tiny dot of land nearly lost among the waves in the Pacific Ocean.

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.

These include unpopulated, unfished regions such as the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean, and areas that are close to towns and where fishing takes place — such as Kiribati and the Solomon Islands, also in the Pacific.

They simulated earthquakes with magnitudes between 9.0 and 9.6 originating at different locations along the Aleutian - Alaska subduction zone, a 3,400 - kilometer (2,113 - mile) long ocean trench stretching along the southern coast of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands where the Pacific tectonic plate is slipping under the North American plate.

Atolls and other low - lying islands in the Pacific Ocean may not slip under the waves but they will likely become uninhabitable due to overwashing waves

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.

The Pacific Islands region is the warmest of the global ocean.

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.

Species: Great frigatebird, Fregata minor Habitat: Breeds on tropical islands in the southern Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic oceans; feeds on fish and squid in the open ocean

A magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck off Santa Cruz Island, part of the Solomon Islands, in the southwest Pacific Ocean February 6 at 12:12 p.m. local time.

Kaufman works in the Phoenix Islands Protected Area in the Central Pacific Ocean, which was set up in 2008.

The day before launch, the U.S. had set off a nuclear explosion at an altitude of 400 kilometers just southwest of Johnston Island in the Pacific Ocean.

Nautilus Minerals plans to continue searching for additional commercially viable deposits of copper, gold, zinc, and silver outside of Fiji, Tonga, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and in the western part of the Pacific Ocean.

Working on a Coast Guard research vessel on the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Vancouver Island, was supposed to be about the research.

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.

In Trafalgar Square, anonymous artistic group Luzinterruptus will install Plastic Islands, a model that alludes to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — an enormous, diffuse «island» of refuse in the middle of the ocean, drawn together by global tides.

This map shows the sea surface temperatures around the Galapagos Islands and Cocos Island in the Pacific Ocean on March 18, 2007.

Though small in size, the islands apparently exert considerable influence over a sizable stretch of the Pacific Ocean.

Instead they talk of how for the next nine months and nine days they drifted across the Pacific Ocean all the way to the Marshall Islands, where a Taiwanese fishing trawler found them.

Darwin's studies of coral reefs (the mineralized parts of which are, after all, huge fossils) encircling islands in the Pacific and Indian oceans led him to theorize correctly how such reefs form.

While terms like the «Great Pacific Garbage Patch» conjure up visions of floating islands of rubbish, most of the plastic in the oceans consists of tiny pieces invisible to the human eye.

All of the New Guinea domestic pigs and those of the islands in the tropical Pacific Ocean carry DNA from those southeast Asian wild boar populations.

The threats are particularly severe for those species that live on islands scattered across the Pacific and Indian Oceans, which is most of them — 53 of the 65 species of flying fox are island - dwellers.

Austronesians, who share a common ancestral language, originated in Taiwan and fanned outward across the Indian and Pacific oceans, from Madagascar to Easter Island and as far south as New Zealand.

More than 40 researchers recently visited a sparsely populated part of the western tropical Pacific Ocean — near the island of Guam — known as the «global chimney.»

The U.S. Air Force tracks the satellites from Hawaii, Colorado Springs, and the various islands of Ascension in the South Atlantic, Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, and Kwajalein in the Pacific.