Sentences with phrase «seas island native»

Kahanamoku attempted to cash in on his fame by appearing in such Hollywood potboilers as Lord Jim (1926) and the Mascot serial The Isle of Sunken Gold (1927), but screen producers saw him mostly as an exotic villain or the odd South Seas Island native and true stardom eluded him.

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Western church historians mention that Emperor Constantine sent a Christian embassy in AD 354 to certain countries bordering the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea under the leadership of an Asian Christian Theophilus, the Indian, who appears to have been a native of Maladive Islands.

A U.S. Geological Survey walrus research team, including a Native Chukotkan, walk towards walrus across the northern Bering Sea ice at St. Lawrence Island, in the Bering Strait, in this 2006 photo.

In this seminal work, which focused on islands in the sea, MacArthur and Wilson related the size of an island and its distance from the mainland to the richness and resilience of the island's animals and birds, which were now natives.

Penguins, albatrosses, sea lions, elephant seals, dolphins, whales, butterflies, raptors and other birds, tussac and the native flora are the treasures of these islands.

A man (Kilmer, Heat) found drifting on the high seas is brought to the island but everyone appears to be mad, and the natives are restless to revert back to their animal selves.

Massey plays the French colonial administrator of a small South Seas Island who unbendingly enforces the law against an unjustly convicted native (a hero to his people, played by Jon Hall).

Learn about pirates, sea monsters, and the island's rich mythology, and enjoy time to get to know native Icelanders — from artisans and storytellers to local families and kids.

After lunch travel to the spectacular north coast of the island, home to sea birds, kangaroos and other native wildlife.

February 8 Maritime History of the Channel Islands Told Through Shipwreck Bert Ho and Carol Linteau March 8 White Shark Nurseries in the Southern California Bight Chris Lowe April 12 Island Scrub Jay Connection to Native Oak Populations Mario Pesendorfer September 13 Impacts of Microplastic Debris on Coastal Ecosystems Clare Steele October 11 Island of the Blue Dolphins: The Lone Woman at the Crossroads Susan Morris November 8 Sea Cow Discovery on Santa Rosa Island John Hoffman

February 8 Maritime History of the Channel Islands Told Through Shipwreck Bert Ho and Carol Linteau March 8 White Shark Nurseries in the Southern California Bight Chris Lowe April 12 Island of the Blue Dolphins: The Lone Woman at the Crossroads Susan Morris September 13 Impacts of Microplastic Debris on Coastal Ecosystems Clare Steele October 11 Island Scrub Jay Connection to Native Oak Populations Mario Pesendorfer November 8 Sea Cow Discovery on Santa Rosa Island John Hoffman

During the February «From Shore to Sea» lecture, Anthropologist Dr. John Johnson discussed new insights from recent research projects that indicate early native inhabitants of the Channel Islands likely thrived in greater densities than anywhere else in California.

Channel Islands Sea Cave Kayak Tours: Daily This beloved California destination is renowned for incredible island kayaking, native wildlife, fantastic snorkeling and hiking opportunities.

In the April «From Shore to Sea» lecture, United States Navy Archeologist Steven Schwartz portrayed the story of a young Native American woman whose 18 years alone on San Nicolas Island inspired author Scott O'Dell to write the Newberry Award - winning classic Island of the Blue Dolphins.

During the January «From Shore to Sea» lecture, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Annie Little will discuss how recent efforts to remove feral cats from San Nicolas Island will help restore native wildlife.

For 200 years, explorers and traders visited the islands where they hunted otters, seals, and sea lions for their pelts and oil, greatly increasing the exploitation of the marine resources and introducing diseases that decimated the native populations.

Dylan was transported in May 2007 from the Georgia Aquarium to the Georgia Sea Turtle Center on Jekyll Island, where she began learning the skills needed to return to her native habitat.

Offers fascinating, informative half - day tours exploring Quail Island, home to many native birds and sea birds including the rare white flippered little blue penguins.

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Kangaroo Island, a sanctuary for native wildlife such as Kangaroos, Koalas and sea lions, is the best place to see these wonderful creatures, surrounded by majestic scenery, rugged rock formations, underground caves and bush cloaked national parks.

Arena is an eco-island whose white - sand beach is known as a nesting ground for the Pawikan, the Philippines» native sea turtles, whose preservation is Arena Island's committed advocacy.

By land, sea, or air, Rodriguez will work with the natives of his homeland, Medici, a chain of Mediterranean islands, to help overthrow a dictator who rules with an iron fist and controls a rare resource called Bavarium that could help usher him to be global power player.

Born in the Gullah Sea Island community off the coast of South Carolina, most of portraits in the exhibition depict residents of Doyle's native St. Helena Island.

Well, according to Monty Graham of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab: «In their native waters, they tend to be fist - sized.

Selway J also finds that this determination is bound by the High Court's decision in Croker Island to hold that native title rights to exclude those exercising public rights to fish or navigate in the sea or the inter-tidal zone can not be recognised.11 Rejecting the applicants» argument that a native title right to exclude people permanently from small areas or to exclude temporarily from areas in the sea according to Yolngu traditional laws and customs is not inconsistent with the public right to fish and navigate.12 Parties are invited to make submissions on the proposed determination.

The decision of the Full Federal Court in the Croker Island case is analysed in the Report as an example of how the legal system imposes severe limitations on the recognition of traditional fishing rights and the spiritual connections that exist between the Indigenous native title groups and the sea.

The Croker Island case was the first judgment to analyse the nature and extent of native title rights over sea country.19 In the first instance, Justice Olney found that although native title rights did exist within the determination area, as a matter of law they were not exclusive in nature.20 This was due to the fact that the native title rights were affected by, and considered to yield to, the right of innocent passage and the common law right of the public to fish and navigate.21 The right of the claimants to use their traditional lands operated only to the «extent of the inconsistency ’22 and as such could not be utilised to prevent others from fishing or carrying out commercial activities in the area.

On 11 October 2001, the High Court determined that the Yarmirr people of Croker Island have a native title right to fish in their sea country.2 It was the first Australian decision to recognise Indigenous peoples» right to native title over the sea.

In fact, I am one of the principal respondents to the Croker Island test case of native title over seas.

[93] The initial decision in Croker Island was given in September 1998, legally recognising that Indigenous people have native title rights in the sea.

Commissioner Gooda said the decision came 18 years after the historic High Court decision in Mabo which found that native title existed on Murray Island, and almost nine years after the Torres Strait Regional Sea Claim was filed in the Federal Court.

There are few cases from overseas jurisdictions that have dealt with the issues of native title sea rights so exhaustively as the Croker Island case.

However, the decision does not mean the only native title rights that can be recognised in the sea must be co-existing: exclusive aspects of native title sea rights that are compatible with public rights (fishing, navigation or innocent passage) were not ruled out by Croker Island.

Other uninhabited islands and the surrounding sea have native title claims over them, but are yet to be determined.

While the Croker Island decision supports the existence of non-exclusive native title rights over sea country, the result did not necessarily exclude future native title applicants from establishing native title rights to fish commercially — two distinct concepts.