Sentences with phrase «coast of the island at»

It lies approximately 150 feet off of the west coast of the island at a depth of only 40 - 50 feet.

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That set off a scramble at Apple to find a new haven for its vast cash hoard, one that ended up at the Channel Island of Jersey, 12 miles off the coast of Normandy, France.

China had said the live - fire drills would happen on Wednesday off the city of Quanzhou, in between two groups of islands close to China's coast but which Taiwan has controlled since 1949, when defeated Nationalist forces fled to the island at the end of the Chinese civil war.

At least one person has died in Guadeloupe due to the storm and two people are reported as missing off the coast of that island.

At least 76 people are dead after Anders Behring Breivik massacred campers on an island off the coast of Oslo, Norway.

Their voyage from Assos to Miletus took them down the coast by Mitylene and through the straits between the Asiatic coast and the island of Chios down to the island of Samos, where they stopped at Trogylium for a day, and back to the mainland, where they disembarked at Miletus.

Situated overlooking the cliffs at Lagg, on the south coast of the island, the new site sits alongside fields of barley that are currently used in distillation at Lochranza.

It owns 9710 hectares of cropping country in the fertile North Star area of northern NSW, a 4926 - hectare aggregation at Darlington Point in NSW's Riverina, a 6786 - hectare King Island property, a 1145 - hectare dairy operation on Tasmania's northern Cradle Coast and a 5425 - hectare cropping farm in Western Victoria.

Inspired by different cultures — The Islands, Tex Mex, Classic American, Asian, Southern BBQ, European, Bayou and more — at East Coast Wings + Grill, community members can enjoy dozens of flavors of chicken wings and choose from eight heat intensities, resulting in hundreds of possible combinations that can be added to most entrees and of course, wings.

One of 5 salt islands on the Louisiana coast, Avery Island stands at 163 feet above mean sea level and is surrounded by low - lying swamps and marshes.

In a small room in the apartment complex assigned to the Chinese in the athletes» village later that same day, Wu Chung - yuan, the man in charge of international relations at the Games for the All - China Sports Federation, said that everyone was happy that FINA had given its blessing, and that nothing had happened to make anyone think that Taiwan was anything more than just an island province off the coast of China.

In a thrilling, closely contested finish, Central Washington defeated defending champion Arizona for the West Coast Collegiate 7s Championship at Sheeran Field on Treasure Island on Sunday, Oct. 22 by a score of 17 - 15.

The PSA Academies team, led by Philippe Saint Andre also included coaches Jermome Riondet (leading French Rugby journalist and ex-Harlequins, FC Grenoble & Oxford University Blue, the first Frenchman to play in the Varsity Match), Florian Rossigneux (ex-Racing, Sydney University, London Wasps, Bedford & Richmond player and Rugby Canada & Rosslyn Park coach), Jules Di Tomaso and Cory Brown were welcomed by host Olivier Baudin as they arrived for the 10 day programme at Fort de France airport on the west coast of the island.

«After spending the last two years tagging Nassau grouper in The Bahamas during their full moon aggregations, we documented the likely extirpation of an important spawning aggregation at High Cay, a small island off the east coast of Andros in The Bahamas, which had most likely existed for decades,» said Dr. Chuck Knapp, vice president of conservation research at Shedd Aquarium.

The morning of volunteer projects will take place Saturday, April 30 at 14 Mass Audubon sanctuaries, from the Cape and Islands to the Berkshires, the North Shore, and the South Coast.

New York is taking steps to file a legal challenge against the Environmental Protection Agency aimed at blocking the designation of a water disposal site near the coast of eastern Long Island.

At 11 a.m., Rep. Tom Suozzi hosts «Orchestrating Both Coasts For A Better Sound 2.0» — a major gathering of local, state and national leaders to discuss the health and future of the Long Island Sound, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, admissions office, 300 Steamboat Rd., Kings Point.

Faced with severe overcrowding on Rikers Island, Mayor Ed Koch developed a plan in 1987 to convert two former Staten Island Ferry boats into prison barges that would hold inmates off the coast of The Bronx, the New York Times reported at the time.

During the recent research trip, the team assessed damage at sites off of St. John's southern coast, in an area that is part of the Virgin Islands National Park.

They simulated earthquakes with magnitudes between 9.0 and 9.6 originating at different locations along the Aleutian - Alaska subduction zone, a 3,400 - kilometer (2,113 - mile) long ocean trench stretching along the southern coast of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands where the Pacific tectonic plate is slipping under the North American plate.

Their bones have even turned up in middens, or archaeological trash piles, dating back to at least 4500 years ago on Orkney, an island that lies about 16 kilometers off the northeastern coast of Scotland, and on the Outer Hebrides, a small archipelago located about 25 kilometers off the northwestern coast.

But as we move [d] down the coast and we also start [ed] to go under these islands which were filled with young penguin chicks — penguins are all kind of born in November, they leave the nest in the first week of February or so and when we were seeing them in January, they were still covered by down and this was during that kind of torrential rain period that we saw, and as a result these penguin chicks which were [a] couple months old covered in down are getting soaked by cold rain during the day and then at night time the temperature drops down into the teens and they are freezing and dying.

One summer, I spent 2 weeks at a field station — Great Gull Island in Long Island Sound, off the coast of Connecticut — banding terns.

After Cape Gelidonya you went on to excavate other sites, including a seventh - century Byzantine shipwreck at Yassi Ada, an island off the western coast of Turkey.

That group, led by Beklemishev and Aleksandr Shestopalov of VECTOR, took samples from seals at a rookery on Maly Zhemchuzhny Island off the Russian coast and from a rookery on Kazakhstan's Bautin Bay.

At 2:46 P.M. Tokyo time one of the largest earthquakes of the past century hit just off the coast of Honshu, the main island of Japan.

The invasive species Carex kobomugi, or Asiatic sand sedge, was first found along the East Coast of the United States at New Jersey's Island Beach State Park in 1929.

The study, led by Amy Russell, associate professor of biology at Grand Valley, reveals that the Hawaiian hoary bat migrated to the islands from the Pacific coast of North America in two separate waves more than 9,000 years apart.

Reliability may also be an issue, following the shutdown last year of a vanadium battery showcase, a 200 - kilowatt backup system that was installed in 2003 at a wind farm on King Island, off the northern coast of Tasmania.

The triggering effect was probably accentuated by an offshore «sedimentary wedge» — a mass of sedimentary rock piled up at the edge of the subduction zone boundary offshore from the North Island's east coast.

Nearly all of the Galápagos penguins live on the western coasts of Isabela and Fernandina, and two - thirds of them huddled near the coldest waters at the southern tips of the islands, according to previous research.

The research program he manages, on Herschel Island in the Canadian Beaufort Sea, is at an important site for monitoring erosion of Arctic permafrost coasts, which make up a third of Earth's shores.

BANGKOK (Reuters)- An oil spill that has blackened beaches at a Thai holiday island was having an extreme impact on tourism and could spread to the coast of the mainland and affect the fishing industry, officials and an environmental group said on Tuesday.

Located in North Cape, Prince Edward Island on Canada's east coast, we're ideally situated for wind study with 300 degree exposure to the water, average wind speeds of 8.2 m / s at 50 m, and numerous icing events per year.

Wind gusts at Tybee Island, a barrier island off the coast of Savannah, reportedly reached 96 mph overIsland, a barrier island off the coast of Savannah, reportedly reached 96 mph overisland off the coast of Savannah, reportedly reached 96 mph overnight.

SUETSUGU Kenji, a Project Associate Professor at the Kobe University Graduate School of Science, has discovered a new species of plant on the subtropical Japanese island of Yakushima (located off the southern coast of Kyushu in Kagoshima prefecture) and named it Sciaphila yakushimensis.This research has published on 20th February in the Journal of Japanese Botany.

Reefs where people do a lot of swimming, such as along Maui's West Coast, the popular coves in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Miami Beach in Florida are especially at risk, explains research scientist and director of the Haereticus Environmental Lab, Craig A. Downs.

It would seem almost sinful to visit the Amalfi Coast without spending at least one afternoon on the Island of Capri.

Stromboli is a small rounded island in the Tyrrhenian Sea at the north coast of Sicily and has on it one of the three active volcanoes of Italy.

Lady Elliot Island, the Barunga Music Festival, Daintree Rainforest, the Atherton Tablelands, the east coast of Queensland and Sydney at night.

She still lives at home (on Jersey, one of the Channel Islands off the British coast), under the thumb of her condescending control freak of a mother, Hilary (Geraldine James), who offers only a calm rationalization when Moll's sister Polly (Shannon Tarbet) hijacks Moll's birthday party at the film's beginning.

All his life, he's heard his beloved grandfather (Terence Stamp, who departs far too quickly) tell him outlandish stories about his own youth on an island off the coast of Wales, where he grew up at an orphanage for misfits with magical powers.

Shutter Island, by contrast, is a psychological thriller set in 1954 off the coast of Massachusetts at Ashecliffe Mental Hospital for the Criminally - Insane.

It's an allegorical painterly Kabuki comedy that makes you laugh as you're gasping at the visual brilliance, each frame a new surprise while moved by the plight of canine exiles on an island garbage dump off the coast of Japan.

Director Peter Weir excels at many themes, one in particular is whether one man can be an island; Witness, The Truman Show, The Mosquito Coast, and Fearless all examine the nature of isolation and individual determination; whatever the consequences.

A film unlike anything you've seen (or will see), Julie Dash's rapturous feature debut is set at a moment of wrenching cultural crisis, when the island - dwelling Gullah — former African slaves living off the coast of South Carolina — decide in August 1902 to head to the nearby American mainland and endure the pain of a second separation from their past.

In the past decade, Anderson has taken us from on board an eccentric oceanographer's submarine while he seeks revenge on a glow - in - the - dark shark, to a luxury train travelling across India whilst three brothers seek spiritual enlightenment, to the tale of an anthropomorphic fox as he outsmarts three dim - witted farmers, and then to a fictional island off the coast of New England where two love - struck teenagers decide to elope after meeting at an amateur performance of Noye's Fludde.

Now, there's a new fifth generation, which saw a debut earlier this year at the 2017 Geneva Motor Show following a reveal at the island that provided the car's namesake, Ibiza, off the eastern coast of Spain.

British writer Catherine Banner's first novel for adults, The House at the Edge of Night, takes place on the imaginary Italian island of Castellamare, off the coast of Sicily.

Winn Van Meter has every single stereotypical WASP problem: he is forced to endure hordes of relatives and wedding party members invading his summer home on an island off the coast of Maine because is daughter had the audacity to decide to marry her live - in boyfriend who impregnated her, he is Captain Ahab - like in his quest throughout the book to gain membership to the exclusive Pequod Club, he is beyond irritated that his marriage produced only daughters and no sons, and then one of those daughters (not the same daughter who is pregnant and marrying, this would be the other daughter who got pregnant and is not marrying) had to let the entire Ophidian club at Harvard — of which Winn was a member in his day some forty years ago — learn that she was pregnant by one of their current members.