Sentences with phrase «few rocky islands»

The study suggests that the mainland populations survived on just a few rocky islands off the South Island's east coast.

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Only lush jungle, palm tree islands, lotus - filled lakes and a few rocky outcrops vary the landscape, whilst breathtaking cave temples such as Mulkirigala are hidden within their midst.

A few miles to the south of RachaYai, the slender, rocky island of RachaNoi offers, the experienced diver, conditions and scenery similar to that found in the Similan Islands.

Cons: Much of the calm western side of the island has rocky beaches; only a few are suitable for sunbathing or swimming.

Early in 1940 we managed to find a small house and for the next three years... I was not able to carve at all... the only sculptures I carried out were some small plaster maquettes for the second «sculpture with colour», and it was not until 1943, when we moved to another house, that I was able to carve this idea... In St Ives I was fortunate enough to have constant contact with artists and writers and craftsmen who lived there, Ben Nicholson my husband, Naum Gabo, Bernard Leach, Adrian Stokes, and there was a steady stream of visitors from London who came for a few days rest, and who contributed in a great measure to the important exchange of ideas and stimulus to creative activity... It was during this time that I gradually discovered the remarkable pagan landscape which lies between St Ives, Penzance and Land's End; a landscape which still has a very deep effect on me, developing all my ideas about the relationship of the human figure in landscape - sculpture in landscape and the essential quality of light in relation to sculpture which induced a new way of piercing the forms to contain colour... The sea, a flat diminishing plane, held within itself the capacity to radiate an infinitude of blues, greys, greens and even pinks of strange hues; the lighthouse and its strange rocky island was an eye; the Island of St Ives an arm, a hand, a face... I used colour and strings in many of the carvings of thisisland was an eye; the Island of St Ives an arm, a hand, a face... I used colour and strings in many of the carvings of thisIsland of St Ives an arm, a hand, a face... I used colour and strings in many of the carvings of this time.

Countless neighbours have done each other harm over a few inches of lawn, and countries argue over rocky islands that are inhabited primarily by gulls and clams.