Sentences with phrase «icy landscape of»

Last summer, a wildfire broke out in the icy landscape of western Greenland.

Not exact matches

Since Estonia had little means for attracting masses of immigrants to its icy Northern European landscape, it came up with a quirky idea — another of its firsts in the world: offering people virtual residency.

Their backpacks have held up even in the toughest of situations, from the deepest forests of Europe to far off deserts and icy landscapes.

The seemingly bleak icy surfaces of these moons are in fact among the most active landscapes in the solar system.

Instead, they listen idly to the icy air swooshing upward as the cage plunges into the guts of northeastern Minnesota's Iron Range, away from the snowdrift - filled landscape and into a world of darkness.

The patterns of erosion resembled those of the «channeled scablands,» a starkly eroded landscape in eastern Washington state that was formed by floods from glacial lakes that burst their icy dams between 15,000 and 18,000 years ago.

The Red Planet's icy polar region can be seen in the lower section of the image, shining in stark contrast to the surrounding landscape.

team these strong tones with the iciest shades of the winter landscape - pure snow white, icy pink, icy blue, icy turquoise, icy aqua

In relentless action sequences in downtown Chicago (this is a classic Chicago film), Kimble moves between suppressed grief due to Helen's murder, and teeth - grinding paranoia in the grim, indifferent streets of urban America and the hostile landscape of the icy forests surrounding them.

When the squirrel - like creature poises the tip of his acorn on the icy landscape, it causes a crack that divides the landmass into the continents we know today.

It was the first place in the world to be designated a World Heritage Site for its spiritual and cultural significance to the area's indigenous people, but it's the landscape that'll really wow you as you hike up the craters of active volcanoes, passing icy blue lakes and ancient lava fields.

For over 20 years, this wondrous Finnish hotel has been a cyclical fixture of winter travel, offering an icy escape amidst the spectacular landscape of Finland.

Dense forests and deep valleys gradually turn to majestic waterfalls and icy glaciers as you travel across the breathtaking landscapes of Scandinavia and the Baltic.

From the tall mountains and icy lakes, to the particles of snow in the ground and trees, every landscape is so visually stunning and incredibly detailed that you will often find yourself stopping to just observe the environmental beauty around you.

The landscape changes too and varies dramatically, with snowy tundras and icy peaks giving way into lush jungle forest, windswept heath lands, brutally hot and barren deserts and even, at the edge of the world, tropical ocean - lined beaches.

This choker, with its double - sided pendant inspired by icy Arctic landscapes, was formed out of the second collaboration between Barbara Rae RA and jeweller Gail Klevan.

The landscape, which simulates an icy sea, is generated by a daily data feed of air temperatures in Qaanaaq, Greenland.

Enthroned on a mountain rising up from an icy landscape covered in blue crystals beneath a pink sky is an androgynous figure in a white cape — a resident of the planet Gethen, perhaps, the scene of Ursula K. Le Guin's 1969 novel «The Left Hand of Darkness»?

In his new series of paintings, currently on view at Jack Shainman, Martinez Celaya lingers on frozen lakes, snow globes, and wintery landscapes sheathed in icy whites and steel greys with only an occasional faint ray of sunlight allowed to peek through.

Her striking compositions, typically using acrylic, often evoke a fragmented version of the landscapes of her native Scandinavia, with abstract geometrical motifs layered over scenes resembling icy mountain ranges or seascapes.

Previous studies have suggested that this portion of the Antarctic Ice Sheet may have retreated before, but this recent work is the first of its kind to establish direct connections between the present - day Totten Glacier and the deteriorated landscape buried deep within the icy region.

Think of Siberia and images of a cold, bleak, icy, snow - swept landscape come to mind.

Colour palettes vary from the cool, pastel tones of icy landscapes to the deep hues of dusky sunsets, with rose quartz, pale amethyst and earthy ochre all playing a part.