Sentences with phrase «islands near the equator»

The creatures roamed at the site during the Middle Jurassic, when Skye was part of a subtropical island near the equator and the region was dotted with lagoons, rivers, and beaches.
Hundred of islands near the Equator in Papua, Indonesia, have been undercut by the sea in a manner that gives credence to the hypothesis that there has been little net change in sea level in the past thousands of years.

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Somewhere near the equator lies Kiribati, a nation that sprawls over 33 islands.
The island - dwelling Polynesian populations near the equator known as Pukapuka and Tokelau obtain 63 % and 34 % of their nutrition from coconut, respectively.
A year ago I would have been hard - pressed to find the island on a map — it was one of the mysterious «G» countries near the equator such as Guyana or Guadeloupe.
The beautiful island of Bali is located near the equator, this means we have a tropical climate.
It's a big island chain near the Equator, with lots of different resort options for those seeking a sublime getaway or a sport - filled excursion.
The researchers studied cores of seafloor sediment representing 500,000 years of deposition, spanning about 6,000 miles of the Pacific equator, from near Papua New Guinea to near Ecuador's Galapagos Islands — nearly a quarter of the globe's girth.
What is more, Mumbai is near the equator and «more vulnerable than Delhi and Pune because it is surrounded by the sea and urban heat islands are forming because of dismal greenery,» says Beig.
The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), an island country located near the equator in the Pacific Ocean with a population of about 50,000, is poised to become the first sovereign nation to issue a cryptocurrency that will be legal...
The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), an island country located near the equator in the Pacific Ocean with a population of about 50,000, is poised to become the first sovereign nation to issue a cryptocurrency that will be legal tender.
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