Sentences with phrase «hundreds of islands which»

The state's coastline is littered with hundreds of islands which have perfect beaches.

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Cuomo said he also could send hundreds of power crews to Puerto Rico within days if the island's government activated a mutual aid agreement, which it has not.

Currently, Plum Island is home to undisturbed wetlands and hundreds of species, including piping plovers, which are endangered in the state.

Hundreds of thousands of residents in Suffolk County continue to use outdated septic systems or cesspools, which has led to increased levels of nitrogen contaminating Long Island's water.

Ms. Pellegrino, a schoolteacher in Baldwin and a union activist, continued teaching during her campaign, which was joined by hundreds of volunteers who knocked on doors in Massapequa, Babylon and West Islip, on Long Island's South Shore.

More than 20,000 people annually stroll among plants such as taro, sweet potato, banana, and coconut palm, which were likely introduced to the island hundreds of years ago by Polynesians traveling by canoe.

«The scientific picture of the universe a hundred years ago was that it was static and eternal in which we live in an island universe, our galaxy surrounded by empty space.

They are trapped on an island of habitat, surrounded on all sides by freeways on which hundreds of thousands of cars roar past every day.

Seven day singles tours to Medellin, Meet hundreds of single Medellin women, tours every month The Philippines, being a country archipelago of islands and seas, have naturally wonderful beaches, some of which are famous the world over.

Every one hundred years afterward, his ghost will rise out of the ocean and deliver to everyone a letter containing «the curse of the double doubloon»; the letter, which is actually a description of the curse, states that anybody who reads it twice will cause the Crystal Coconut to lose its power and the island to sink into the ocean.

* Practising 2D shape manipulation, to develop visual - spatial awareness, mathematical problem - solving skills, and awareness of geometric shape properties (Tangram Cats) * Working with visual codes in addition (Cat Sums in Tens, Cat Sums in Hundreds, Cat Paw Bonds — Adding to 50) * Recalling multiplication facts, in fun ways (Cat Dish Factors, Cat Paw Bonds — Multiplication) * Investigating geometric patterns in polygons (Cheese Patterns) * Reading keys and interpreting pictogram graphs (Favourite Foods of Cats) * Working with directions on visual maps (Cat Directions), and map coordinates (Cat Island) * Word puzzles which provide practice with syllables, digraphs (Cat Word Patterns) & word families (Hidden Words) * Solving visual - spatial puzzles (Cat Logic Puzzle).

Consecutive extreme hurricanes caused loss of life and hundreds of billions of dollars in damage along our Gulf Coast, Florida and in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands — which endured two Category 5 storms in two weeks!

For two hundred years, fleets of treasure galleons stuffed with silver and gold and emeralds had plied the Caribbean Sea, crisscrossed it every which way, from Key West down to Cartagena, from the Yucatán over to the Windward Islands, and every so often, one of those unpredictable West Indian cyclones would come spinning across the Caribbean and slam half the fleet onto shallow reefs, which ripped open the hulls and spewed that treasure all over the ocean floor.

Our shelter, which becomes home to hundreds of Camano Island's homeless dogs and cats each year depends on all of our fundraising events, but we truly depend on the success of our annual auction in order to keep helping the animals who need us each year.

Once here, at Kingfisher Bay Resort, slip into island living and explore the hundreds of tracks which criss - cross the world's largest sand island.

Other tours could encompass the Latin Quarter, the Botanical Gardens (the largest after Kew Gardens in England), Mont Royal Park with the nearby magnificent St Joseph's Oratory — where the middle flight of steps is reserved for pilgrims ascending on their knees — and the islands of Sainte - Helene with its Biosphere (Buckminster Fuller's geodesic dome from Expo ’67 now home to environmental themes) and Notre Dame which has a bizarre combination of both a Formula One track (which you can walk cycle or roller blade on) and hundreds of frisky groundhogs.

This coast is Bali's easternmost point, which is highlighted with spectacular sunrises over the neighboring island of Lombok and the hundreds of brightly painted jukungs (fishing boats) returning to shore in the early mornings.

Referred to as «the Venice of the North», Amsterdam's landscape is defined by its concentric, half - circle canals, of which it has more than one hundred kilometres worth, as well as 90 islands and 1500 bridges.

Pulau kalong (flying foxes island) where around sunset hundreds of bats fly out, which is a spectacular sight

Following the successful event, which say hundreds of delegates dissect the latest trends in Caribbean tourism, Breaking Travel News caught up with the island's director of tourism John Lynch to assess his views.

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Down here, the Barrier Reef separates from the main land to create an Inner - Lagoon sprinkled with hundreds of cayes (small islands), coral reef, and miniature atolls, which makes for superb diving and snorkeling, and hundreds of square miles of flats that offers the Best in Belize Fishing.

The famed Hamilton Island Race Week is a must see if visiting in August, which sees hundreds of yachts navigating the islands in style.

The Bahamas actually consist of hundreds of small, tropical islands, most of which are uninhabited.

Surrounded by hundreds of islands, many of which are untouched, the city is only a short speedboat ride from the fascinating island of Phi Phi.

The island receives an average of about 500 hundred visitors a week mostly from people on a day trip from Belize City which is only half an hour away by boat.

«Croatia is home to hundreds of islands, which have their own individual & unique culture.

As such, there are a dozen dive sites around the island within a 10 minute boat ride which can vary from gardens of coral bommies to vertical coral walls plummeting hundreds of metres.

The paradise islands in the Maldives are idyllic, so how do you decide which of the hundreds of luxury resorts to choose from?

This is a vast expanse of sea, peppered with literally hundreds of tiny islands and coves, which means the only was to truly explore Raja Amapt is on a liveabaord dving holiday.

Recent projects revisit historical texts and photographs which speak on the early colonization of the Cayman Islands and the creation of the Caymanian people through the last several hundred years of the islands» social poIslands and the creation of the Caymanian people through the last several hundred years of the islands» social poislands» social politics.

With NEH grants, CUNY Research Foundation held Landmarks Workshops in American History for one hundred community college faculty in 2010 and 2012 on the topic «Along the Shore: The Landmarks of Brooklyn's Industrial Waterfront,» which included the history of Coney Island around the turn of the twentieth century.

These include the Like Minded Developing Countries, or L.M.D.C.s; the Least Developed Countries, or L.D.C.s; the Alliance of Small Island States, or AOSIS; and the Group of 77, or G77, which, confoundingly, has a hundred and thirty - four member countries.

A host of reports from Madagascar indicate that environmental turmoil, including raids on parks for rosewood, is rising in the wake of political upheaval in that remarkable island nation, which is home to hundreds of extraordinary animal and plant species.

Our trainings foster local leadership and steep learning in local traditions to yield powerful activism, such as the Pacific Warrior Training Program, which has mobilized hundreds of Indigenous activists across many Pacific islands to engage their communities on the impacts of climate change and participate in mass actions confronting the coal industry in Australia.

Because climate change is likely to cause death to many, if not millions of people, through heat stroke, vector borne disease, and flooding, annihilate many island nations by rising seas, cause billions of dollars in property damage in intense storms, and destroy the ability of hundreds of millions to feed themselves in hotter drier climates, the duty to refrain from activities which could cause global warming is extraordinarily strong even in the face of scientific uncertainty about consequences.

There are only a few large bays, the largest of which is Puget Sound with 6,400 km2 of water, over 3,700 km of shoreline, and hundreds of islands.

«The software helps with the hundreds of decisions that you need to make to be green,» says Bruce Becker, president of New York - based Becker + Becker Associates, which designed and developed Octagon, a 500 - unit luxury residential apartment complex on Roosevelt Island in New York City.

Brekkie the next morning was at the Cafe Isthmus, which had a great view of Rottnest Island and its annual Channel Swim, flanked by hundreds of boats.