Sentences with phrase «as ocean island»

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 discovered.

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 discovered.

Not exact matches

Malaysia's deputy transport minister says it is «almost certain» that the wreckage found on Reunion island in the Indian Ocean this week is from a Boeing 777 — the same type of aircraft as missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.

In Romans, Barth said that the Word of God can be uttered only when the predicate Deus revelatus has as its subject Deus absconditus31 The vast ocean of so - called reality that is the profane world of a completely autonomous mode of human existence has left the island of the sacred completely submerged.

Or to change the metaphor, what we see as islands separated in an expanse of ocean are all connected under the ocean.

Two of the Upangas give in question - and - answer form detailed classifications of living beings and a description of the world in considerable detail, oceans, islands, the palaces of the gods, as well as a classification of races and their habitations.

It includes Weaver's wonderful essay, «Up From Liberalism,» which is the account of a young man leaving his liberalism behind as he discovers that «we are inhabitants of a fruitful and well - ordered island surrounded by an ocean of ontological mystery.

Seafood lovers found shrimps, squid and fish from the ocean as well as from the nearby Lago Trasimeno (when visiting Piacere Barbecue next year, be sure make a stop at that wonderful lake and take the little ferryboat to the island within).

His love for the ocean takes him to the San Pedro area as well as Catalina Island several times a month.

Some gamesome wights will tell you that they have to plant weeds there, they don't grow naturally; that they import Canada thistles; that they have to send beyond seas for a spile to stop a leak in an oil cask; that pieces of wood in Nantucket are carried about like bits of the true cross in Rome; that people there plant toadstools before their houses, to get under the shade in summertime; that one blade of grass makes an oasis, three blades in a day's walk a prairie; that they wear quicksand shoes, something like Laplander snowshoes; that they are so shut up, belted about, every way inclosed, surrounded, and made an utter island of by the ocean, that to their very chairs and tables small clams will sometimes be found adhering, as to the backs of sea turtles.

Many see little more than the native marketplace, the professional dance spectacles and the hotel bar, But the wise and the adventurous traveler may discover such beyond - the - beyond islands as Bora - Bora and follow such guides as Erwin Christian into the glorious ocean

Name: Dimitri Payet Date of Birth: 29/04/1987 Born: Réunion (French island in the Indian Ocean) Position: Midfielder Club: Marseille International: 15 France caps (correct as of 25/06/15)

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.

As we watch the oceans for the devastation that Marie may bring to the islands, I'm looking very hard to find the rainbow that will happen following that storm.

From 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer and deputy comptrollers hear testimony about the city's Hurricane Sandy recovery efforts as Stringer hosts the second hearing of his office's Sandy Oversight Unit; Coney Island Hospital, 2601 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone encountered something unexpected yesterday as he walked the hairline paths of Ocean Beach, Fire Island, where superstorm Sandy swept homes off their foundations and tossed around brawny off - road vehicles like paper cups in the wind.

On a small Australian island in the Indian Ocean, supercolonies of yellow crazy ants are causing what one biologist refers to as a «meltdown» of the native ecosystem.

Save for a trio of researchers who made their North Pole trek double as a march for science, the honor of the farthest north march today was held by the small Norwegian research village: Ny - Ålesund, on the island of Svalbard in the Arctic Ocean.

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..

Lab Girls begins with Jahren accompanying her father to his teaching lab, with table surfaces so solid they couldn't be damaged with a hammer and includes her undergraduate and graduate education, subsequent teaching positions and research postings as far afield as an isolated Arctic Ocean island.

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.

OFF the northernmost tip of Scotland, where the turbulent waters of the Atlantic Ocean meet those of the North Sea, sits a chain of 70 mostly uninhabited islands collectively known as Orkney.

Scientists are debating whether the break in the cloud layer above the volcano is related to the eruption or simply the result of the normal way that ocean air dries as it moves over an island.

They found that, as seas warmed at the end of the last ice age, Pine Island Glacier retreated to a point where its grounding line — the point where it enters the ocean and starts to float — was perched precariously at the end of a slope.

But now, a vulnerable glacier on the other side of the island, part of a massive flow of ice known as the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream, shows that yet another region of Greenland is feeling the effects of warming oceans.

Truly giant waves, such as water waves rolling across the ocean, can bend around an entire island and magically reappear behind it.

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 signal, which was picked up by underwater sound recorders off Rottnest Island just after 1:30 am UTC on the 8th March, could have resulted from Flight MH370 crashing into the Indian Ocean but could also have originated from a natural event, such as a small earth tremor.

But on New Year's Day on Brooklyn, New York's Coney Island beach, the sound of chattering teeth will fill the air, as thousands of people gather in preparation for a ceremonial wintry dip in the Atlantic Ocean.

Fish - farming companies such as HiddenFjord, in the town of Sørvágur, are the lifeblood of the Faroe Islands, a small nation in the North Atlantic Ocean halfway between Iceland and Norway.

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 struisland, 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 struIsland 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.

A number of places in the Indian Ocean, such as Madagascar, Mauritius and the Seychelles, Maldives, and Lakshadweep islands, are known to display a slightly stronger gravitational field than expected.

In Ocean City, N.J., emergency sirens sounded yesterday afternoon as police blocked access to the bridges that connect the resort community, which sits on a narrow barrier island, to the mainland.

But a third species, M. nesiota, lives on a volcanic island nation in the Indian Ocean known as the Comoros.

«At the same time as the surface is cooling, the deeper ocean is warming, which has already accelerated the decline of glaciers on Pine Island and Totten.

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The endless pull of the ocean continues as we wrap up the top 5 perfect proposal places with Vanua Levu, the second largest island in Fiji, making its way in.

Located primarily on the island of Great Britain and in Northern Ireland, the United Kingdom is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Internet freedom declined in 2017 as the Investigatory Powers Act (IP Act) authorized a range of surveillance powers, including some bulk surveillance of

It is the attempt to penetrate The Void that brought us Alex Haley's Roots, that draws thousands of African Americans across the ocean to visit West Africa every year, that left me crumpled on the rocks outside the Door of No Return at Gorée Island's slave house as I stared out over a horizon that my ancestors might have traversed once and forever.

The latest documentary from Disneynature — they also brought us Earth (2007)-- begins with a daunting series of ocean photography; waves crashing on top of themselves, an army of jellyfish floating as if without a care in the world, a pack of dolphins skipping across the water and marine iguanas sunbaking on the Galapagos Islands amongst others.

Greenland is one aspect, but so are the islands that may be underwater as ocean levels rise.

(In English and Spanish with subtitles) The Island President (PG for violence, smoking and mature themes) Climate change documentary chronicling the effort of Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed to save his low - lying island nation from being sinking into the Indian Ocean as a consequence of global waIsland President (PG for violence, smoking and mature themes) Climate change documentary chronicling the effort of Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed to save his low - lying island nation from being sinking into the Indian Ocean as a consequence of global waisland nation from being sinking into the Indian Ocean as a consequence of global warming.

Still, the gaunt, bearded and suicidal Hank, evidently alone on an island in the Pacific Ocean, takes Manny's arrival as a sign.

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.

But not everything is lost as Thomas Risse - Kappen (1995) argues, «while democracies do not seem to be inherently more peaceful than autocratic regimes, there is nevertheless an island of peace in an ocean of conflict and wars».

This 1982 example's odd aesthetic is as unmistakable today as it was over four decades ago, but the 928's futuristic design wasn't just meant to wow onlookers, though it does that quite well — designer Wolfgang Möbius Möbius» masterpiece garnered stare - downs from countless bystanders and plenty of camera phones flew up as we cruised the ocean front boulevards of the Westhampton portion of Long Island, New York.

As Fred immerses himself in the life of a pub owner, Elly takes the ferry out to a nearby island where she — to the disbelief of the locals — is consumed by her ritual of open water ocean swimming, pushing herself to the limits.

It was my first trip to Nags Head, but it hasn't been my last, and the area served as an inspiration for my new Ocean Breeze trilogy of novels, which kicks off with Sand Castle Bay (out now), followed by Wind Chime Point on April 30 and Sea Glass Island on May 28, all from MIRA Books.

Pardon the analogy but I'm going to describe this as such: think of the pieces as 5 different islands (or buckets) that are far away from each other but in the same ocean.