Sentences with phrase «island chains in»

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

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

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.

Fryer, of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, is confident that more evidence of the massive tsunami will be found, confirming that events of this magnitude have rocked the island chain in the not - so - distant past.

Delilah (she looks 15 but never shares her age) has stopped telling us about the variety of raw, organic chocolates on display and started in on why she, after a fight with her parents, found herself on Kauai, the least populated island in Hawaii, the most isolated island chain in the world.

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

Watch this video of diving in the Maldives with footage of manta rays, whale sharks, grey reef sharks, nurse sharks, as well as some of its less vaunted smaller creatures such as frogfish and harlequin shrimps, at this beautiful atoll island chain in the Indian Ocean.

Hawaii is the most remote island chain in the world.

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

Environments range from the urban streets of Shanghai to an island chain in the South China Sea to a frozen mountain prison to a city being inundated with floodwaters.

Not exact matches

For example, interest in the Maldives — an island chain southwest of India that is fighting rising sea levels — jumped 68 percent from 2016 to 2017.

Shares of Long Island Ice Tea Corp. tripled in price after it renamed itself Long Blockchain last month, and those of a franchisee of the Hooters restaurant chain jumped last week after it said it would move into the space.

The chain now has multiple locations in Massachusetts, Las Vegas, and Philadelphia, and one in Coney Island.

The chain also opened its first restaurant in Long Island on October 7.

«We ramped up our overhead so we could handle the explosive growth of a company that goes public,» recounts Thomas DeJordy, owner of Cafe La France, a Rhode Island - based restaurant chain that was supposed to do its IPO in 1996.

This island chain is in dispute, with Japan claiming that two of the Kuril Islands were seized by the Soviet Union following World War II and actually belong to Japan.

Authorities on the Florida Keys on Tuesday began allowing residents and workers to return to the upper islands in the chain — Key Largo, Tavernier and Islamorada.

Many of the islands along the chains in the Pacific have geopolitical significance beyond their mere location — several are modern - day colonies of Western states.

Conceived by former US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles (1953 - 1959), it maintains that if the West is to geopolitically contain China, it must control three chains of islands in the Asia Pacific, as shown below.

Beyond closer economic and political ties within the island chains, China also gains influence at the U.N., as the islands account for 14 votes in the General Assembly.

Rooted in the Island Chain Defence Theory, Paskal advocated for Canadian policy - makers to view Oceania through a geopolitical lens.

These hurricanes form from a tropical depression or tropical wave that passes through or near that chain of islands, and then eventually strengthens into a named system (finally becoming a hurricane at some point) in the mid-Atlantic.

After collecting data in Rhode Island, she wrote an article for the Providence Journal, describing in vivid detail the treatment of one Abraham Simmons whom she had found chained in a seven by seven cell in Little Compton, with no window and no heat.

In Miami's Little Havana (miamiandthebeaches.com), you can stroll the Calle Ocho sampling legit cortaditos (Cuban coffee), investing in modestly priced paintings imported from the island and dancing the afternoon away to the sounds of the salseros playing on street corners or at Ball & Chain, the lounge where Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong once playeIn Miami's Little Havana (miamiandthebeaches.com), you can stroll the Calle Ocho sampling legit cortaditos (Cuban coffee), investing in modestly priced paintings imported from the island and dancing the afternoon away to the sounds of the salseros playing on street corners or at Ball & Chain, the lounge where Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong once playein modestly priced paintings imported from the island and dancing the afternoon away to the sounds of the salseros playing on street corners or at Ball & Chain, the lounge where Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong once played.

Selection and freshness are two of the most important keys to success for a supermarket chain, and that goes double in places like the islands of the Caribbean.

In 2010, CDG acquired a chain of retail stores known as Big Daddy's, allowing for the distribution group to etch out an even larger share of the beer, wines and spirits market on the islands.

It's only natural that food distributors pay close attention to their supply chain and logistics, but that takes on added importance when that distribution takes place on and between islands in a steamy climate.

election and freshness are two of the most important keys to success for a supermarket chain, and that goes double in places like the islands of the Caribbean.

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From a distribution perspective, D's products are currently available on Amazon, plus around 12,000 stores including GNC, Vitamin Shoppe and CVS, with significant opportunities to grow in fitness and health club chains, specialty retailers and up and down the street accounts, said Hickey, who is based in Long Island, while Katz is based in Denver.

Indonesia is comprised of a chain of some 18,000 islands stretching across 5,000 miles in the South China Sea.

Turtle Island is situated in the Yasawa Chain of islands, and sits approximately 50 miles North of mainland Fiji (island of Viti Island is situated in the Yasawa Chain of islands, and sits approximately 50 miles North of mainland Fiji (island of Viti island of Viti Levu).

We aimed to examine the availability of snack food displays at checkouts, end - of - aisle displays and island displays in major supermarket chains in the least and most socioeconomically disadvantaged neighbourhoods of Melbourne.

There are only three pinpricks of land within 1,000 miles of the Hawaiian chain, and so the islands have a constant surge around them, a surge that is often mild but at times strong when the violence of remote storms awakens again in the shoaling waters.

Grenada, Carriacou & Petite Martinique are three beautiful islands in the Windward chain of islands, threaded by the Caribbean Sea, connecting North and South America.

A new base has been included in this year «s effort: sailors on an island in the middle of the Aleutian chain.

Teamsters Local 237, a union that represents more than 30,000 government workers in the city and parts of Long Island, has thrown its support behind Heidi Harrison Chain, one of five Democratic candidates vying for Melinda Katz's (D - Forest Hills) Council seat.

On the same day as upstate protests, UFT members on March 24 picketed the offices of Republican senators Andrew Lanza on Staten Island and Marty Golden in Bay Ridge to tell them that our public schools — not wealthy charter chains — need their support.

Extremely slippery road conditions Monday resulted in a chain reaction collision in the southbound lane of the Interstate - 190 at the North Grand Island Bridge, according to Grand Island Fire Chief Chris Soluri.

Similar research since has found what may be the genetic signatures of Norwegian Viking Age mice in modern populations on the Azores, an island chain more than 900 miles west of Portugal.

First author Kevin Konrad, Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon, and his team have evaluated new rock dating of volcanoes in the Rurutu volcanic chain, including, for example, the Tuvalu volcanic islands in the Western Pacific.

If global warming melts the world's glaciers and raises sea levels, the first to know about it will be the citizens of the Maldives, a low - lying chain of island atolls in the Indian Ocean.

«An important next thing to do is to look for evidence for tsunamis elsewhere in the Hawaiian island chain,» said Witter.

You have to be a link in the chain rather than carving yourself out as a separate island,» Jock says.

It is not only producing midplate volcanoes in the island chains above its location deep beneath the central Pacific but also has produced older volcanic chains now submerged in the northwest Pacific that erupted as the Pacific plate drifted over the central Pacific over the last 100 million years.

The plume anomaly is consistent with partial melting, melt extraction, and remixing of hot rocks and is spreading north toward the mid-ocean ridge instead of, as projected, eastward with the migrating Nazca plate on which the island chain sits, says co-author Douglas R. Toomey, a professor in the UO's Department of Geological Sciences.

A tsunami wave of roughly 19 centimeters (7.5 inches) was measured at Amchitka Island, in the Aleutian Islands chain, though lesser heights were recorded at other islands, said National Tsunami Warning Center oceanographer BoIslands chain, though lesser heights were recorded at other islands, said National Tsunami Warning Center oceanographer Boislands, said National Tsunami Warning Center oceanographer Bo Bahng.

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.

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.