Sentences with phrase «coastal wilderness as»

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The act also designated 8 million acres of ANWR as wilderness and thus off - limits to human settlement, and directed that the 1002 area — the 1.5 million acres of coastal land between the Brooks Range and the Beaufort Sea — could be surveyed for possible oil and gas resources.

Three hours» drive from Cape Town, Elands Bay's coastal wilderness functions as a palliate for the soul.

One of Victoria's best loved parks, and its largest coastal wilderness area, Wilsons Promontory (locally known as «The Prom») is a 50,000 hectare (124,000 acre) reserve.

Subsequently, the inaccessible coastal wilderness, known as the Lost Coast, remains the longest undeveloped stretch of coast in California.

After a pause to soak up the local ambiance of this truly unique lifestyle, our aerial tour continues as we traverse Teakerne Arm (making sure everyone takes in the picturesque Teakerne Falls, enroute to a wilderness lodge, for the chance to meet and eat with the locals, taste some fresh locally prepared foods and further experience the remote coastal lifestyle.

Because of its proximity to coastal wilderness, as well as the jungles full of cenotes and underground rivers, and Mayan ruin sites like Tulum, Coba, and Chichen Itza, Playa Del Carmen also attracts archaeology buffs, extreme eco-adventurers, and nature enthusiasts.

Exponents of Luminism included frontier painters like Missouri man George Caleb Bingham (1811 - 1879), as well as wilderness or coastal landscape artists - from the Hudson River School and other groups / locations from around America - including Fitz Hugh Lane (1804 - 1865)(Nathaniel Rogers Lane), Martin Johnson Heade (1819 - 1904), Frederic Edwin Church (1826 - 1900), as well as John F. Kensett (1816 - 72), Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823 - 1900), Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823 - 80), Albert Bierstadt (1830 - 1902), William Trost Richards (1833 - 1905), Norton Bush (1834 - 94), Edmund Darch Lewis (1835 - 1910), Alfred T. Bricher (1837 - 1908), Thomas Moran (1837 - 1926), George Tirrell, Henry Walton, and JW Hill.

The Service will soon decide whether to designate a huge chunk of the coastal plain as a «Wilderness Area» that would be permanently protected from oil drilling.