Sentences with phrase «island archipelago of»

Located on the island archipelago of Svalbard, the town's temperatures were ridiculously warm back in January 2012.

On the tiny island archipelago of Cape Verde can be found the island of Sal and the town of Santa Maria.

Bora Bora is an island in Tahiti's Society Islands archipelago of French Polynesia.

Not exact matches

Alutiiq is a subsidiary of the Afognak Native Corporation, which is in turn owned by about 700 Alaskan Natives from the Kodiak Island archipelago, the product of a settlement with Washington over land claims.

The route from airline Loganair, the only major UK airline owned and headquartered in Scotland, covers 1.7 miles between the two islands of Westray and Papa Westray, near the mainland of Orkney, an archipelago in the Northern Isles of Scotland.

The Maltese archipelago (made up of three main islands) is one of Europe's smallest countries.

China «has certainly expressed its interest» in upping its military presence on Vanuatu, an 80 - island archipelago 1,750 kilometers (1,090 miles) east of the Australian coast, a senior defense official told 9News.

At a lunch with 300 businessmen and officials, she promised to help Indonesia, an archipelago of more than 17,000 islands, attract more tourists from the city.

In an archipelago of islands, different varieties of gardens and nursery and promoted which can be purchased for a prices ranging from 500000 USD to...

What they have constructed, these past thirty years, is not a globalised economy, but the world archipelago of capitalist islands - large or small - where they have concentrated world scientific and technological capacity (more than 92 % of world R&D expenditure, more than 90 % of patents and of the installed computer capacity...), financial power, symbolic power and media power of the present time.

In this context, the only realistic option for other regions of the world will be to try to attach themselves, at any cost, to one of the islands of the archipelago in the hope of becoming an integral part of it.

But, the population on the islands of the global archipelago will not increase.

Oh, sure, I could have just stayed along the gorgeous southern coast of Viti Levu, Fiji's largest island in a tropical archipelago of 300.

About Laucala Island Set upon a private island of 3,200 exclusive acres in the Fijian Pacific archipelago, Laucala Island brings a new meaning to the term «all - inclusive resort.&Island Set upon a private island of 3,200 exclusive acres in the Fijian Pacific archipelago, Laucala Island brings a new meaning to the term «all - inclusive resort.&island of 3,200 exclusive acres in the Fijian Pacific archipelago, Laucala Island brings a new meaning to the term «all - inclusive resort.&Island brings a new meaning to the term «all - inclusive resort.»

Located approximately 30 kilometers west of Cayo Guillermo and Cayo Coco on the Jardines del Rey archipelago, Cayo Santa Maria is connected to the main island of Cuba by a 48 kilometre causeway.

It's the largest island in the Antilles that includes an intricate archipelago that includes the main island (about two - thirds the size of Florida), the Isle of Youth, and about 4,195 keys (cayos) and islets.

Buenos Aires took the propaganda war over the archipelago's future to the pages of national newspapers by taking out adverts marking the 180th anniversary of the British arrival in the Falkland Islands.

But closing Rikers has gained political momentum over the last few days since the Council speaker, Melissa Mark - Viverito, endorsed in her State of the City address the idea of mothballing the unloved complex that covers the more than 400 - acre island, and replacing it with an archipelago of neighborhood jails.

Now, by studying glaciers from Tibet to the Arctic islands of the Svalbard archipelago in Norway, researchers are starting to understand why some glaciers swing between extremes of stagnation and crushing flow, and how surges may be predicted.

Rattus detentus, a Rodent of Unusual Size: On Manus Island, separated from New Guinea by about 100 miles of ocean, researchers found one of the largest rats known from the Melanesian archipelago, a particularly rich region for rat diversity, according to the April study in the Journal of Mammalogy.

Soay sheep are a primitive breed of domestic sheep living free on the island of Hirta in the St Kilda archipelago.

Years later, she heard large corals were still alive near Wolf Island in the remote northern part of the Galápagos archipelago, so in 2010 she followed up on the tip with a team that included co-authors Tudhope and Thompson, then a UA graduate student.

In the 1960s and 1970s, the British government expelled the entire population of the small Indian Ocean archipelago, then promptly leased the largest of the islands, Diego Garcia, to the United States for a military air base.

SOME 13,000 years ago, on a tropical island at the heart of the Indonesian archipelago, an extraordinary group of dwarf - sized people lived alongside dwarf elephants and giant lizards.

The low - lying island nation offers the scientists a unique opportunity to reconstruct climate conditions during previous periods of varying sea levels to help scientists better understand how future climate change will the effect the 1,000 km - long archipelago and low - lying coastal areas all around the world.

The Canary Islands, an autonomous community of Spain west of Morocco, spreads more than 300 miles across the Atlantic in an archipelago akin to Hawaii.

«Here's an archipelago of volcanic islands that are broadly active over a large region, and the plume is almost decoupled from the plate motion itself,» Toomey said.

While a dozen volcanoes remain active in the archipelago, the three most volatile are Fernandina's and the Cerro Azul and Sierra Negra volcanoes on the southwest and southeast tips, respectively, of Isabella Island, the archipelago's largest landmass.

We started in the Aleutian islands, [the] next year it was Vietnam, the Tuamotu with big archipelago of atolls in the South Pacific, the Altiplano of South America which is the driest place on Earth, and which seem [s] kind of a futile place to take kayaks but there are big desert lakes there that [and] we drag [ged] the kayaks from one to the next.

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.

Some of those criticisms may be quelled by the new evidence, which comes from Spitsbergen, the largest island in the Svalbard archipelago off the coast of Norway in the Arctic Ocean.

Colonisation of Macaronesia started in Porto Santo, Madeiran archipelago, which is the oldest island, and from there it «jumped» to Madeira and the Desertas.

The islands of the Japanese archipelago are affected both by frequent, low - magnitude earthquakes and tremors and by larger, highly destructive events.

So we're talking about like islands of Vancouver or all of the archipelagos from varying to Baja, California but also all the Gulf of Mexico and in the case of Mexico part of the Caribbean coast but also of all of the waters in Atlantic from Canada and the U.S. and what we are trying to understand is what are the species that we are responsible for conservation?

They are all flightless beetles and most of them endemic (living exclusively in one geographic location) to a single island of the archipelagos of Madeira, Selvagens and the Canary Islands (17 islands in Islands (17 islands in islands in total).

And Cuba everybody thinks that is just one island but Cuba is an archipelago of around 3,000 islands, keys, rocks and the main island of Cuba and the second main island.

Formed from volcanic eruptions, the Hawaiian archipelago, like other island chains, has a breathtaking variety of species — many found nowhere else on Earth — that evolved from a few hardy pioneers.

The article also expands on the phylogenetics, morphology, and ultrastructure of Osedax deceptionensis, another Osedax species that was discovered by the same research group in 2013 at Deception Island in the South Shetland archipelago (Antarctica).

In Southeast Asia, each El Niño cycle brings drying to thousands of islands in the Indonesian archipelago, with attendant crop failures, famine and peat fires.

Elevated land - based islands could protect people living in low - lying areas from tsunamis — and archipelagos of them could form entire towns

Some 2000 people were deported from the Chagos archipelago in the 1960s and 1970s when the United States built a military base on the island of Diego Garcia.

The island, which had detached itself from the ice shelf on Ellesmore Island in the Canadian arctic archipelago, was used as a laboratory for seismic studies of the Arctic Ocean floor, as well as charting currents, pollution, winds and ice struisland, which had detached itself from the ice shelf on Ellesmore Island in the Canadian arctic archipelago, was used as a laboratory for seismic studies of the Arctic Ocean floor, as well as charting currents, pollution, winds and ice struIsland in the Canadian arctic archipelago, was used as a laboratory for seismic studies of the Arctic Ocean floor, as well as charting currents, pollution, winds and ice structure.

Inside the crater of a volcano on Graciosa Island in the Azores archipelago, in the Atlantic Ocean, an international team of researchers has discovered the bones of a new extinct species of songbird, a bullfinch which they have named Pyrrhula crassa.

Last week, six European countries, including Britain, signed an agreement to build the radar on the island of Spitsbergen in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.

Matthew Spriggs of the ANU and Stephen Wickler, now at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, collected tools during an excavation in 1987 at Kilu Cave on Buka Island in the north of the archipelago.

The Seychelles, an archipelago of 115 islands about 1500 kilometers east of Africa, are something of a geological curiosity.

During his travels on the Beagle, Darwin noticed subtle anatomical differences between giant tortoises living on different islands in the archipelago, which would later inform his theory of evolution by natural selection.

Páramos resemble a sort of alpine archipelago, each a link in the chain of distinct island ecosystems that have evolved in isolation to produce plants found nowhere else on the planet.

Bali, famous for its surf, beaches and temples, attracted nearly 5 million visitors last year, and its airport serves as a transport hub for the chain of islands in Indonesia's eastern archipelago.

The investigators discovered that the original male parent was a large cactus finch of the species Geospiza conirostris from Española island, which is more than 100 kilometers (about 62 miles) to the southeast in the archipelago.