Sentences with phrase «about a kilometre between»

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Kinder Morgan's 1,000 - kilometre expansion project has become a national rallying cry for environmentalists, sparked protests from Indigenous communities, caused a trade war between two provinces and brought about the arrest of a federal party leader.

RCMP say Mattheo Moore - Spence, Terrence Spence and Keethan Lobster, all between 11 and 13, were walking and riding bikes on Saturday night when they were hit on a road near Nelson House, about 850 kilometres north of Winnipeg.

Described as a five - by - one - kilometre gold - rich, sulphide - bearing quartz vein environment, the trend hosts a former mine that averaged about 19 g / t during intermittent operation between 1916 and 1939, producing over 60,000 ounces.

The fresh round of violence is said to have erupted between farmers and herders, leaving many other people injured in Kajuru which is about 50 kilometres from Kaduna, the state capital.

According to News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, details of the project indicate the development of a sugar cane plantation of about 16,000 hectares or 160 kilometre square, longer than Lagos to Ibadan expressway which is estimated between 120 kilometres and 130 kilometers — more than 30 kilometres shorter than the proposed sugar plantation.

«The work starts from kilometre Zero thus from the Bolga - Tamale main traffic light roundabout and ends at Pulmakom which is about 110 km but we are leaving out 13 km between Bolga and the Red Volta because that portion was awarded to MAWUMS construction limited.

Now Martin Jutzi and Erik Asphaug at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have simulated the effect of an impact between the moon and a smaller sibling 1300 kilometres across, about one - third as wide (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature10289).

The images of 288P, which is located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, revealed that it was actually not a single object, but two asteroids of almost the same mass and size, orbiting each other at a distance of about 100 kilometres.

The moon's Hill sphere has a radius of 60,000 kilometres, about one - sixth of the distance between it and Earth.

The huge dam, scheduled for completion in about fifteen years, will cost between $ 22 and $ 34 billion, create a reservoir 600 kilometres long and force more than a million people from their homes.

Between 1968 and 1972 he fought the Americans in the jungles of the Aluoi Valley, about 60 kilometres west of the coastal town of Hue.

All 17 detected objects range in diameter from between about 100 kilometres and 400 kilometres.

They found that the bamboo forests in which the pandas live shrank by 4.9 % between 1976 and 2001, to about 55,500 square kilometres.

During September 1991, about half of the ozone at altitudes of between 9 and 13 kilometres was destroyed (Geophysical Research Letters, vol 19, p 1819).

The loss of ozone at a height of between 16 and 28 kilometres was between 13 and 20 Dobson units — about 5 per cent.

By PETER BOND Between late November and mid-December, astronomers in California and Puerto Rico are closely monitoring an asteroid about 5 kilometres across called 4179 Toutatis as it passes within a few million kilometres of Earth.

The lower edge of the stratosphere, bounded by the tropopause, varies in altitude from about 18 kilometres at the equator to between 6 and 8 kilometres over the poles.

I will get this reaction from just about everyone that I pass on the two kilometre journey between the school and the volunteer house.

A larger fuel tank than the 58 - litre unit in AWD models would be welcome, though, since the wee tank only allows about an average of 575 - kilometres between fill ups (further for long trips involving only highway driving.)

Every year, between June and August, hundreds of thousands of small silver sardines pass the South coast of KwaZulu Natal as they make their way to the Southern Cape for the purposes of spawning.Incredibly, the sardine shoal can reach up to about 30 kilometres long.

Kwelera's 164 hectares form a narrow strip of coast that runs parallel to the Indian Ocean for about five kilometres, between the beachside town of Gonubie and where the Kwelera River meets the sea just north - east of East London.

Accommodation in Shelley Point On the West Coast of the Western Cape lies Shelley Point, about 150 kilometres north of Cape Town, perfectly positioned between Saldanha and Port Owen.

Covering about 13 kilometres, the ride will take between two and three hours to complete.

A sweep of narrow blacksand beaches stretch for about 10 kilometres hugging the north coast of Bali between the busy city of Singaraja and the smaller town of Seririt.

Ko Yao Yai, or «Big Long Island», running about 30 kilometres in length from top to bottom, sits halfway between Phuket and Krabi in the middle of Phang Nga Bay.

Riviersonderend, the little village in the Cape Overberg that lays claim to a river without end, lies roughly between Caledon and Swellendam on the N2 about 160 kilometres from Cape Town.

The boundary between the two, the tropopause, is about 18 km above your head, if you are in the tropics, and a few kilometres lower if you are at higher latitudes (or up a mountain).

One of expected consequences of the global warming is an increase in the temperature difference between the Tropics and the Polar Regions at altitudes of about 5 - 15 kilometres.

There is no relation between the radiation flows exchanged by surface and air (whose net balance is about zero) and the radiation from the top of the air lost to the cosmos some kilometres above the surface; the cooling of the «top of the air» at mid and high latitudes is compensated by advection of humid air from mid latitudes.

There may be about 7,000 kilometres between British Columbia and Scandinavia, but the two regions come together style-wise in this Vancouver home.