Sentences with phrase «about a kilometer»

Situated about a kilometer from Batubelig Beach, the estate offers an unparalleled balance of exclusive seclusion and prime location.

You could visit the site independently, purchasing the ticket at the small government tourist center, which is located about a kilometer away from the site.

A kilometer - size asteroid could be deflected in a year with a solar collector about a kilometer in diameter — which, I subsequently learned, exists.

Airplanes can cover large distances but can't fly low enough to collect VOC samples, which reach heights of about a kilometer or less above the canopy.

The resort is situated about a kilometer from the Golden Fish and the Gradina camping sites, which offer excellent conditions for surfing.

I seem to have read about kilometer wide patches of methane bubbling to the surface north of Russia and enough clathrates around just the coast of America to supply her energy needs for centuries.

With only about a kilometer to go I made the pass into first and hammered the pedals.

«After I've trekked for about a kilometer, I saw someone to whom I cried for help.

They drilled through about 200 meters of ice, unspooled a length of optical fiber into the borehole, and then extended the cable through the hole and down about a kilometer into the ocean beneath.

But despite earlier pollen analysis that pegged the movement of some tree species (that is, average advancement via seed dispersal) at about a kilometer per year after the last ice age, genetic studies have reduced that estimate to a pace closer to a tenth of a kilometer per year, Loarie says.

In the ocean, such bacteria are most likely to live about a kilometer deep, so ocean biologists have assumed that this region is the source of methylmercury in the ocean.

The fact that they unfold in a fairly contained space — a stretch of shore - bordered water that looks to be about a kilometer across — intensifies the suspense.

There was no dock at Yeji, just another beach landing, this one on a point about a kilometer from the town.

These are best accessed by boat, however if you swim about a kilometer and a half from just about anywhere in Simon's Town you will intercept this reef.

Beyond the tranquil seclusion of Petiti, you're just minutes from the world - class dining, golf, and slopes of Verbier, with the village center about a kilometer from your door, Verbier Golf Club about two kilometers, and the cable car about a five - minute drive.

I have not been able to buy myself an air compressor, so what I do is I always have my tires check at my local gas station, which is about a kilometer away from my house.

About a kilometer in height and nearly half as wide, is Zaslavsky's tower which is

The Hubble and TAOS surveys, along with their predecessors, indicate that some mechanism seems to curb the population of KBOs that have diameters of about a kilometer to tens of kilometers, relative to what one would expect from extrapolating downward from the observed population of large KBOs.

It demands a «green belt,» about a kilometer wide around each city, a belt which may not be used for building.

The University is now located at Gomoa Pomadze - Winneba, along the Winneba - Swedru highway, about a kilometer from Winneba roundabout (Junction).

Scientists estimate it is probably no more than about a half mile (about a kilometer) in diameter.

But earlier finds suggest a possible answer: The skull of a 3.3 - million - year - old hominin, Kenyanthropus platytops, was found in 1999 about a kilometer from the tool site.

So Opportunity now has the U.S. record, but it still has about a kilometer to go to break the world — or should I say solar system — record.

BMW and Mini moved from the front of the Frankfurt Messe, near Mercedes and VW Group, to Hall 11 about a kilometer away, which at least provided incentive to walk into the non-German automakers» displays in - between.

Finally, about a kilometer and a half north of Latitude 10 is Playa Hermosa, one of the most beautiful beaches in the world, and due to the fact that there are very few hotels in the area, it remains a «local secret».

Despite the «Riviera» label, the drive isn't scenic; most of the highway is inland, about a kilometer from the shore, and is flat and straight with no view of the sea.