The newest entry introduces large
archipelagos for the first time so there is more to manage as you try to keep several islands happy and flourishing.
During the period of exploration and colonization of the world, Spanish, Portuguese, and English sea captains all sailed to these shores, but it was the Dutch East India Company that dominated
the archipelago for more than 300 years.
The area's wetlands and streams, though taxed by drought and widely separated, are islands in their own right: an aquatic
archipelago for rare fish, snails, plants and frogs.
As Hudson Pinheiro, a researcher from the Department of Oceanography and Ecology at the Federal University of Espírito Santo in Brazil, explains: «Populations of this new species have been isolated in
the archipelago for a long time due to the distance from the coast, and have developed clear differences in comparison with other «sibling» species living on the continental margin.»
The findings add to the few documented cases of rapid responses by wildlife to climate change, such as Rosemary and Peter Grant's studies of finches in the Galapagos
archipelago for four decades starting in 1973.
the envy of most on this secluded on infra - structure starved island, or anywhere else in
the archipelago for that matter....
They boarded a small, private liveaboard boat and headed out to to
the archipelago for a refreshingRead more
The Balearic Islands were popular and critical for these different nations for strategic and military reasons, although modern day visitors and residents appreciate
the archipelago for its scenic beauty, historical significance, and cultural heritage.
Holidaymakers have been coming to
this archipelago for years and it's easy to see why.
The scene is not unique to Indonesian New Guinea; it has been repeated across the world's largest
archipelago for decades, partly a consequence of agricultural expansion by small farmers, but increasingly a product of extractive industries, especially the logging, plantation, and mining sectors.
Not exact matches
For what it costs to live in North Beach, for example, you could afford a fancy white - stone cave on an Aegean archipela
For what it costs to live in North Beach,
for example, you could afford a fancy white - stone cave on an Aegean archipela
for example, you could afford a fancy white - stone cave on an Aegean
archipelago.
Jokowi said not using the state budget
for the rail project in heavily populated Java meant money wasn't taken away from infrastructure projects in other parts of Indonesia, a sprawling
archipelago.
In an
archipelago of islands, different varieties of gardens and nursery and promoted which can be purchased
for a prices ranging from 500000 USD to...
«Internet» teaching of literacy becomes a necessary step
for the establishment of channels and bridges with the
archipelago.
In this context, the only realistic option
for other regions of the world will be to try to attach themselves, at any cost, to one of the islands of the
archipelago in the hope of becoming an integral part of it.
In that case, taking United Nations» figures
for 1991, France would have been more overpopulated than the Indonesian
archipelago, Japan would have been far more overpopulated than India, and Singapore (where government policy is now striving to raise the birthrate) would have been vastly more overpopulated than Bangladesh.
It prompted Alexander Solzhenitsyn's title, The Gulag
Archipelago,
for his history of the Soviet prison - camp system, which was dispersed around the U.S.S.R. like a land - bound
archipelago.
The
archipelago's National Commission
for Human Rights received nearly 100 reports of religious freedom violations last year, continuing a three - year trend.
Imagine an American citizen who, bankrolled by millions of dollars from the Soviet Union, spent his entire life as an apologist
for Communist oppression, including Stalin's murder of many millions by planned famine and the terror of the gulag
archipelago.
As most chemicals are prohibited anywhere in the
archipelago, the coffee is certified organic (which is also a required criteria
for Bird - Friendly certification).
They may be a complex, flawed, divided little
archipelago, but
for now at least self - schadenfreude really does keep Essex stockbrokers, Antrim cleaners and Lancashire taxi drivers together.
Lyyski steered the club — based on the Aland Islands, an
archipelago in the Baltic Sea — into the top flight
for the first time following successive promotions in 2003 and 2004.
Bajwa is on a rare visit to the Maldives
for a Pakistani chief of army staff — his last two predecessors had not travelled to the
archipelago.
Rattus detentus, a Rodent of Unusual Size: On Manus Island, separated from New Guinea by about 100 miles of ocean, researchers found one of the largest rats known from the Melanesian
archipelago, a particularly rich region
for rat diversity, according to the April study in the Journal of Mammalogy.
The waters around the low - lying
archipelago has steadily risen and fallen
for millions of years in sync with the changing climate.
International academic conferences are a new thing
for the village of Puerto Baquerizo Moreno — capital of the Galápagos
archipelago and its oldest settlement.
In the 1960s and 1970s, the British government expelled the entire population of the small Indian Ocean
archipelago, then promptly leased the largest of the islands, Diego Garcia, to the United States
for a military air base.
A selection of letters covering the
archipelago years have also been published
for the first time by Oxford University Press in Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters from the Malay
Archipelago.
FIFTY - million - year - old insects preserved in amber are helping to rewrite the story of India's almighty crash into the Eurasian continent, suggesting that
for as long as a few million years before the collision, India was connected to Asia by
archipelagos.
So we're talking about like islands of Vancouver or all of the
archipelagos from varying to Baja, California but also all the Gulf of Mexico and in the case of Mexico part of the Caribbean coast but also of all of the waters in Atlantic from Canada and the U.S. and what we are trying to understand is what are the species that we are responsible
for conservation?
The evolutionary process responsible
for such richness comprises sequential radiation events in these
archipelagoes, each generating several monophyletic groups.
For example, the polar bear specimen from roughly 120,000 years ago survived in Svalbard during a warm interglacial period because that Arctic
archipelago remained more frozen than other areas.
The Grants had shown that gene flow has occurred in the finches of Daphne Major during the past 40 years, but the new study found extensive evidence
for gene flow throughout the roughly 1 million years that the birds have occupied the
archipelago, which has helped the researchers update their understanding of how the lineages diverged over time.
For example in the Gulf of Finland National Park, the breeding population increased considerably compared to 2012, and the species is spreading into the inner
archipelago.
While the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate has now started providing avalanche forecasts
for Svalbard, Prokop says he wants to create a sustainable avalanche safety system that is based on the island
archipelago itself.
Lead researcher Aylin Ulman, recently based at the Sea Around Us, and her team call
for urgent action from policy - makers to ensure the future sustainability of the fishing industry in this
archipelago nation.
Indonesia ordered the evacuation of 15,000 residents near an active volcano in the west of the vast
archipelago on Sunday as authorities raised the alert
for the emergency to the highest level.
«As soon as I saw that that half the islands in the
archipelago were sat on a single, shallow, submarine platform, I realized that the implications
for biology could be significant,» said Dr. Ali.
A team of Brazilian researchers have described
for the first time a new species of labrisomid, the Hypleurochilus brasil, endemic to the Brazilian
archipelago of Trindade and Martim Vaz, more than 1,200 kilometres from the coast of Rio de Janeiro in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
«This impact is very low compared to that reported
for other species on other
archipelagos,» comments Rodríguez, although he highlights that the Balearic shearwater is the most affected of the three species.
In May 2009, an official with the British Foreign Office — Colin Roberts, who is responsible
for overseas territories — briefed U.S. diplomatic staff about government plans to create a marine reserve in the
archipelago, which is within the British Indian Ocean Territory.
For example, the Dolphin - Union caribou, which live in the Canadian archipelago in the middle of the Northwest Passage, rely on ice bridges to get into mainland Canada for food in the wint
For example, the Dolphin - Union caribou, which live in the Canadian
archipelago in the middle of the Northwest Passage, rely on ice bridges to get into mainland Canada
for food in the wint
for food in the winter.
The island, which had detached itself from the ice shelf on Ellesmore Island in the Canadian arctic
archipelago, was used as a laboratory
for seismic studies of the Arctic Ocean floor, as well as charting currents, pollution, winds and ice structure.
The two lead authors, Dr. Julia Kleinteich of Tübingen's Center
for Applied Geoscience and Dr. Falk Hildebrand of EMBL Heidelberg, analyzed samples which Julia Kleinteich took at the British Research Station Rothera in Antarctica and at the Norwegian
archipelago of Svalbard in the Arctic.
Close to ten years ago, researchers from the Norwegian Institute
for Water Research (NIVA) caught «Calvin the Cod» and hauled him out of the cold Arctic waters during an oceanographic expedition to the Barents Sea and the northern coast of Norway and the Lofoten
archipelago.
In the northern Mozambique channel and the Raja Ampat
archipelago in Indonesia,
for instance, upwelling and ocean gyres bring cool water that has allowed fragile corals to escape bleaching.
Bali, famous
for its surf, beaches and temples, attracted nearly 5 million visitors last year, and its airport serves as a transport hub
for the chain of islands in Indonesia's eastern
archipelago.
Now,
for the first time, the campaign will expand its reach to explore the Arctic's Eurasian Basin through two research flights based out of Svalbard, a Norwegian
archipelago in the northern Atlantic Ocean.
Darwin's finches in the Galápagos
archipelago provide an iconic model
for the evolution of biodiversity on earth due to natural selection.
The plight of Lonesome George provided a catalyst
for an extraordinary effort by the government of Ecuador to restore not only tortoise populations throughout the
archipelago but also to improve the status of other endangered and threatened species.