Sentences with phrase «island chain»

After all, you and the goods you want to acquire had to fly to one of the most remote island chains in the world.

These giants of the sea utilize ocean currents, temperature changes, acoustic cues and the earth's magnetic field to find their way here to the world's most remote island chain.

This stunning island chain offers an intriguing combination of mountains, beaches and peaceful seaside villages.

Here, a few highlights of this idyllic island chain.

Learn about this unique island chain, the threats confronting it, and how our national park is protecting and restoring this diverse ecosystem.

Ok well first up here's a surf report and a hand full of images sent through to us from our friends up at the Kandui Surf Resort in the Mentawai Island chain of Sumatra.

Ok everything's ok over at the Kandui surf resort up in the Mentawai island chain of Sumatra.

The entire Hawaiian Island chain is volcanoes, most are dormant, a few on the Big Island of Hawaii are active like Kilauea in Volcanoes National Park.

Offering some of the highest biodiversity in the Caribbean, Turneffe offers a well - developed reef encircling the entire island chain making it the perfect location for divers, snorkelers and kayakers.

This amazing cruising experience covers the full length of the magnificent Yasawa Island chain as well as Modriki and the Sacred Islands.

Maia is a recent émigrée to the Azores, a volcanic island chain in the North Atlantic about 1,000 miles from anything in particular.

The final proposals — released last month — range from a series of underwater «breakwater» walls around Staten Island to an offshore barrier island chain called «Blue Dunes.»

The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker will keep players busy as they explore 49 gridded sections of a sea map each containing an island or island chain with dungeons full of enemies, items and puzzles to solve with an eventual challenging boss enemy for each stage.

The Cumberland and Northumberland Island groups, commonly called the Whitsunday Islands, form the largest offshore island chain on Australia's east coast and provide a magical holiday escape with something for everyone.

800 miles out west in the Aleutian Island chain, is the remote town of Dutch Harbor, Alaska.

Royal Palm Hotel Galapagos, located on the Galapagos Islands chain off the coast of Ecuador, features intimate casitas and villas for guests to enjoy, as well as an on - site restaurant.

Discover the beautiful island chains of Madeira and the Azores with this multi-island getaway to the islands of São Miguel and Madeira

Known as hotspots, volcanic island chains such as Samoa can ancient primordial signatures from the early solar system that have somehow survived billions of years.

Keith Minto says: «Interesting, Bob, as this region being relatively shallow with close island chains, would provide some resistance to flow compared to deeper water, restricting the volume entering the eastern Indian Ocean area...»

The theoretical basis of Paskal's argument was the «Island Chain Defence Theory.»

The Ryukyu island chain stretches from Kyushu in southern Japan to Taiwan, and its subtropical and tropical ecosystems provide habitats for many species.

The island is called Bartolome which is located in the bottom right side of the Galapagos Island chain.

is a true naval combat sim set in the WW2 era, with fights primarily taking place around island chains in The Pacific.

Within the sea is the Kuril Island chain, which links Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido with the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula.

They visited Tahiti and other island chains including the Cook Islands to spread the Gospel and were the first missionary family to visit Samoa.

«CT scan of Earth links deep mantle plumes with volcanic hotspots: Scans prove that plumes of hot rock anchored at core - mantle boundary rise to form island chains.»

A group of people set out from the Solomon Island chain in the southwestern edge of the Pacific Ocean and steered their outrigger canoes toward the horizon more than 3,500 years ago.

Select your hero and recruit a ragtag crew of survivors who can help you navigate the hazardous island chain.

Nestled in the Eastern Caribbean, Anguilla is the northernmost island within the Leeward Islands chain, and offers visitors miles of unspoiled tropical terrain.

Secret Beach is one of the most alluring beaches on the island of Kauai, and repeat visitors of the Hawaiian Island chain know that it is one of the most picturesque destinations on the island.

Free from internet, banks, roads and cruise ships, the pristine island chain of the Yasawa Islands in the west of Fiji is for some, the ultimate escape.

Secluded beaches, rugged coastal rainforest, thriving marine ecosystems teeming with sealife along the shores of hundreds of sheltered inlets and intriguing island chains makes Vancouver Island a paddlers paradise.

Situated in the central Yasawa Island chain, this small, friendly resort offers basic accommodation in a lovely, quiet location.

The Aloha state is the only U.S. state that is made up entirely of a very long island chain.

«This virtually uninhabited island chain provides sheltered kayaking next to nutrient - laden currents where salmon gather in huge numbers.

Seismologists proposed some 30 years ago that stationary plumes of hot rock in the mantle occasionally punched through the crust to produce volcanoes, which, as the crust moved, generated island chains such as the Galapagos, Cape Verde and Canary islands.

University of California, Berkeley, seismologists have produced for the first time a sharp, three - dimensional scan of Earth's interior that conclusively connects plumes of hot rock rising through the mantle with surface hotspots that generate volcanic island chains like Hawaii, Samoa and Iceland.

The finding, in combination with evidence from previous studies, suggests that these molten regions deep below, near the core - mantle boundary of the Earth, may cause basaltic ocean island chains to form along the surface.

This gorgeous island chain is blessed with clear, clean water washing pristine, multi-coloured reefs.

Nowadays most serious divers have been at least once to this magnificent island chain in the Indian Ocean.

Koh Bida Nok and Koh Bida Nai, at the South end of the Phi Phi island chain are among the best sites in the region.

One of the main areas that China's expansion has focused on has been the Spratly Island chain close to the Philippines.

The 700 - kilometer island chain in the Bay of Bengal lurched southeast toward Sumatra by as much as 1.25 meters and twisted counterclockwise, Prithvish Nag, India's surveyor general, told a scientific meeting here last week.

Like so many others along this steamy island chain, he's wearing shorts and a billowing Hawaiian shirt.

Many of the insects are close relatives of species found in Eurasia at the time, indicating that there may have been island chains linking India and southern Asia by 50 million years ago.

South Pacific land snails are rare to begin with, but they have taken a hit in the last few decades after residents of Raiatea, in the Society Island chain some 5000 kilometers south of Hawaii, began importing predatory snails from Florida in 1986 to eat another kind of pest snail.

Last December at the American Geophysical Unions annual fall meeting in San Francisco, Zebker and one of his graduate students presented their work on shape - shifting volcanoes in the Galpagos Island chain.

Even though the tiny island chain is only about 10 kilometers across, researchers hadn't realized the extent of the penguin population, says study coauthor Heather Lynch, an ecologist at Stony Brook University in New York.