Sentences with phrase «island continent of»

IT IS a calm day on the island continent of India.

1) How did the marsupials on the isolated island continent of Australia make it to the ark?

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The sprouting of these islands of legality, observers predict, will spur other states to open up their cannabis markets lest they lose out on revenue and tourism, much as the casino gambling pioneered in Las Vegas became ubiquitous across the continent.

Because mankind addresses him thus (Sebastos) in accordance with their estimation of his honour, they revere him with temples and sacrifices over islands and continents, organised by cities and provinces, matching the greatness of his virtue and repaying his benefactions towards them.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were;...

Only after these voyages were humans able to draw a reasonably reliable map of the planet's surface, showing how the various continents and islands each form part of one global world.

No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.

That effort involved 40 days and nights of rain to drown every single living thing except good fish and that which boarded a large wooden boat and dispersed themselves on island continents thousands of miles from where the boat eventually landed.

There are no island continents in a world of electronic technologies — no place left to hide or to withdraw from the communities of women and men.

For, was the surface of the earth even and level, and the middle parts of its islands and continents not mountainous and high as now it is, it is most certain there could be no descent for the rivers, no conveyance for the waters; but, instead of gliding along those gentle declivities which the higher lands now afford them quite down to the sea, they would stagnate and perhaps stink, and also drown large tracts of land.

«Let the dry land appear,» he cried, and up out of the deep came the continents and the islands.

As an island continent situated in the Asia Pacific region, Australia has a unique set of favourable geographical features distinct from all of its competitors.

By definition, maritime islands are not part of any continent.

Now the British Brexiters will meet their political opponents in the committee rooms of the European Parliament, as well as over 30 national and regional assemblies across the continent and its islands over the next two years.

And despite the noisy tory backbenchers, the complicity of Nick Clegg and the invisibility of Ed Miliband, there are plenty of people in the UK who welcome being in the EU, able to travel, and work, and set up businesses, trade freely, influence EU foreign policy and climate change policies — who will not want the UK to be a small cut off island on the edge of the continent, with no influence in Europe let alone the wider world.

After studying journalism at Fordham University and the College of Staten Island, Justin's dreams led him to pursue a career as a professional touring musician where he performed in over fifty countries across five continents.

And can anyone seriously suggest that Japan, or South Korea, or Brazil would cut us a better deal as an island of 60m people than as a continent of 500 million?

Britain is an island that has helped to clear the European continent of fascism and was resolute in doing that throughout the Second World War.

Much of what I saw was peculiar, but not so different from what you might find on the South American continent or on other tropical islands.

It is worth remembering that the UB and IRBio team led by Conxita Àvila has contributed to the discovery of the first Osedax bone - eating worm in the Antarctic continent and the Mediterranean, the nemertean Antarctonemertes riesgoae, which has a bizarre reproductive behaviour, and the annelid Parougia diapason, a new species discovered in Deception Island, among others, in the South Shetland Islands in the Southern Ocean.

Ships and planes have turned the natural trickle of species spreading to new islands or continents into a raging torrent, says Michael Le Page

Once they had appeared, birds from the South American continent could have reached the group of islands.

«Each one of these island continents would have evolved its own unique dinosaurs - so there are probably many more species out there to find.»

Cultivated part of hell Toward the middle of the year the Beagle left behind the South American continent and set sail for the Galápagos islands, where the crew came upon a cheerless scenario: «A jagged field of [irregular or wavelike layers of] black, basaltic lava pockmarked with huge fissures, and covered everywhere with stunted, sun - burnt brushwood,» Darwin complained in his report.

They will give Sweden its first fixed link to the mainland of northwest Europe, and tie Denmark's main islands to each other and to the continent's road and rail networks.

Terranes often originate as volcanic islands (like those of Hawaii) and, after colliding with one another or a continent, are separated by large discrete faults.

Coastal regions of continents or larger islands will also be in harm's way, particularly towns or cities built on barrier islands and the fertile flat plains that typically surround river deltas.

Although retreat of the Thwaites Glacier grounding line in West Antarctica has sped up, at the neighbouring Pine Island Glacier — until recently one of the fastest retreating on the continent — it has halted.

«There could be populations of beavers moving around in the continent and in the islands we don't know anything about,» biologist Giorgia Graells, of the Institute of Patagonia at Magallanes University and lead author of the study, told Scientific American.

Ground ice is not the major component of Antarctica's vast reserves of frozen water, but there are major expanses of ground ice in the Dry Valleys, the Antarctic Peninsula and the continent's ice - free islands.

What's more, detailed studies of the Southeast Asian coastline of 50,000 years ago showed that an 800 - mile - long stretch of islands and at least eight ocean straits separated the island continent from the Asian mainland.

The list included herbivores and carnivores from 25 oceanic islands and five continents, ranging from the woolly mammoth of Eurasia to the dwarf hippopotamus of Cyprus.

Here the «other» is the «First Peoples of Turtle Island» — indigenous Americans» description of themselves and their continent.

There are three species of Moggridgea spiders that are known to live on islands off the shore of the African continent.

Before oxygenation, continents were composed of rocks rich in magnesium and low in silica — similar to what can be found today in places like Iceland and the Faroe Islands.

Instead of continents, there were islands protruding from the oceans.

Ms Lee said Antarctic ice - free areas cover less than one per cent of the continent, ranging from the size of a football pitch to the size of a small Pacific Island.

There are several subspecies which occur in different world regions, including also the ubiquitous domestic cat (Felis silvestris catus), which has been introduced to every habitable continent and most of the world's larger islands, and has become feral in many of those environments.

More than 7,000 plant and animal species make their homes here, and more than half of the bird species found on the entire continent inhabit the Sky Islands.

A plethora of monkey species lived in South America at the time, but it was then an island continent, cut off from its northern neighborhood by a seaway at least 160 kilometers wide.

It reveals a pattern of significant, long - term, human influence on the distribution of species across all of the earth's major occupied continents and islands.

Tide of genetic data refutes idea that an earlier expansion of modern humans populated the island continent.

The continent has suffered more than a quarter of all recent mammal extinctions, and many other native species survive only as small populations on one or more of the country's thousands of islands.

After all, Australia is an island continent, well isolated from the rest of the world's dangerous diseases.

The amber lens even offers a glimpse into continental drift: a resin - gripped honeypot ant, now resident only in Australia, indicates that that big island down under and the present continent of South America were once one landmass.

As the penumbra slides under the bottom of the Earth, the partial eclipse is visible in varying extent across the icy land continent and just as it begins to slide back out into space it (just barely) manages to pass over Tasmania as well as portions of New Zealand's South Island.

Third, hybridization is spreading upstream in the system via continent — island and stepping - stone invasion, and hybrids have higher straying rates than non-hybridized westslope cutthroat trout, further promoting the spread of hybridization (Boyer et al. 2008).

The area studied two of the continent's largest glaciers, Thwaites and Pine Island, which drain into the sea and contribute to rising sea levels.

«These small animals, known as Gardiner's frogs, have been living isolated in the rainforest of the Seychelles for 47 to 65 million years, ever since these islands split away from the main continent.

The tyrannosaurid dinosaurs likely evolved in isolation on the island continent, with incursions of the seaway separating small areas of land from each other.