Sentences with phrase «kilometer area of»

If they're traipsing in the mountains above the ski resort of Lech in western Austria, though, that solitary figure may not be a fellow hiker at all, but a life - size cast - iron sculpture.Well - known British sculptor Antony Gormley has placed 100 such «iron men» — each weighing 630 kilograms — throughout a 150 - square - kilometer area of the Austrian Alps, some up to several kilometers high in the famous mountain range, in what The Guardian calls an «operation so complex that it required the involvement of the Austrian army, 15 mountain rescue teams, dozens of helicopter flights and five years of planning»:

While that adequately explains the 10 - meter surge that affected much of the impacted area, Grilli said it can not account for the 40 - meter waves that struck a 100 - kilometer area of Japan's mountainous Sanriku Coast.

Over a 21 - year period, from 1990 to 2011, a team of scientists tracked 180 female bears and their cubs in a 13,000 - square - kilometer area of boreal forest in south - central Sweden.

The newly described venomous snake has been reported only in a small, 320 - square - kilometer area of Golfo Dulce.

Not exact matches

The facility is spread over an area of 75 kilometers squared off the east coast of England.

The project will cover 50 islands and 34,000 square kilometers — an area bigger than Belgium — between the cities of Umluj and Al Wajh to attract «luxury travelers from around the globe,» according to an official statement sent to Bloomberg on Tuesday.

MC: Pure Gold Mining Inc. (PGM: TSX.V; Not Rated) owns a land package, the Madsen gold project, comprising approximately 45 square kilometers of ground within the Red Lake district in northwestern Ontario, making it the third largest landowner in the area.

The Company's other material exploration project is the property comprising a 47.3 square kilometers licence area in eastern Kazakhstan (the Karchiga Project), which is part of the Rudny Altai polymetallic belt.

In one area of India, more than 20 square kilometers of soil have been lost to salinization, while in Pakistan nearly all the irrigated land is affected to some extent.

Coffee farms are often located adjacent to protected areas; in many countries, including El Salvador, Guatemala, and Costa Rica, more than 30 % of the area surrounding coffee regions (50 - kilometer radius) falls within protected areas (Jha et al. 2012).

Over its eight kilometer length, you are treated to a landscape of hills in an area of magnificent 200 year old maple, beech and oak trees.

Motorists and passersby on the Kilometer 15, quarry area of Ibadan - Lagos Expressway were Sunday thrown into shock as a fatal accident involving two Mazda commercial buses...

The source said: «With the killing of the bandit commander Buhari Daji at Nabango area under Birnin - Gwari local government of Kaduna State just 16 kilometers to Dansadau in Zamfara state, there were strange movements of some of the armed men in the area.

A network of smaller peatlands in the Amazon Basin adds up to 629,000 square kilometers, an even larger area than the Congo find, says study coauthor Louis Verchot of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture in Cali, Colombia.

By 2017, excessive nitrogen from agriculture had created a hypoxic zone in the Gulf extending 22,729 square kilometers (8775.7 square miles)-- an area larger than the state of New Jersey.

Considering that the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets span more than 1.7 million and 14 million square kilometers, respectively, while containing 90 % of the world's freshwater ice supply, melting of ice shelves could be catastrophic for low - lying coastal areas.

India is also embarking on a $ 168 billion National River Linking Project that envisages constructing more than 15,000 kilometers of canals and tunnels to shunt water to parched areas of the country; the government allocated $ 16.6 million in the coming year for preparatory work.

An area with more than 20 meters of horizontal displacement, that is, four times larger than those detected on land, stretches several tens of kilometers long along the trench; the largest amount reaches about 24 meters toward east - southeast just above the hypocenter.

Encompassing all of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Papahnaumokukea covers an area of 362,000 square kilometers and is home to 85 percent of the 1,100 Hawaiian monk seals surviving today.

When SKA is completed in the late 2020s, it will be the world's largest radio telescope and science infrastructure, with the total area of the dishes measuring one square kilometer.

The river begins its journey from the snowpack in the central Rocky Mountains and travels south 1,450 miles (2,330 kilometers), draining an expansive yet arid area that encompasses parts of seven US and two Mexican states.

In 2004, they began monitoring Europe's largest ice field by area: Austfonna ice cap, a monster that is 560 meters thick in spots and straddles 8500 square kilometers, roughly the area of Puerto Rico.

Dots represent the average hours of activity within an area spanning 10,000 square kilometers.

While the decline of green vegetation was small, the area affected was not: 2.1 million square miles (5.4 million square kilometers), equivalent to over half the area of the continental United States.

People living within a «stack shadow» — the area within a half - to one - mile (0.8 - to 1.6 - kilometer) radius of a coal plant's smokestacks — might then ingest small amounts of radiation.

Auger consist of 1660 particle detectors covering 3000 square kilometers, an area nearly the size of Rhode Island, in the Pampa Amarilla in Argentina.

For context, 780,000 square kilometers (301,000 square miles) is greater than the area of Texas.

Thousands of eggs litter the square - kilometer site near Auca Mahuida today, so many that researchers call the area Auca Mahuevo — huevo is Spanish for «egg.»

The island was surrounded by a plain of glacial ice covering 1,500 square kilometers — 25 times the area of Manhattan.

The results, published today in Scientific Reports, reveal that the GPGP, defined as the area with more than 10 kg of plastic per km2, measures 1.6 million square kilometers, three times the size of continental France.

According to a 2013 analysis conducted by Packer, it is cheaper to manage lions in fenced reserves at around $ 500 per square kilometer (not counting the high cost of installing the fence in the first place) than in unfenced areas, where $ 2,000 is only sufficient for managing a population at half its potential density.

Now that the close to 2,240 square - mile (5,800 square kilometers) chunk of ice has broken away, the Larsen C shelf area has shrunk by approximately 10 percent.

As the spacecraft zooms closer, to about 3,400 kilometers above the cloud tops, less total area of Jupiter can be seen, but more details emerge.

It also triggered the meltdowns at Fukushima and the evacuation of 150,000 people from within 20 kilometers of the nuclear plant as well as from areas beyond that were hard hit by fallout.

The simulations showed that the scoured area would stretch for perhaps thousands of kilometers from the impact point, consistent with the swirling streaks that extend across the Moon's surface.

In 2002 35 percent of the total area cleared of trees consisted of land swaths smaller than 0.5 square kilometer, whereas by 2010, the contribution of these small areas to the overall deforestation number increased to 80 percent.

Previous attempts to image mantle plumes have detected pockets of hot rock rising in areas where plumes have been proposed, but it was unclear whether they were connected to volcanic hotspots at the surface or the roots of the plumes at the core mantle boundary 2,900 kilometers (1,800 miles) below the surface.

All in all, ThunderFish has a surface area of 64 square kilometers to scan.

Stressed trees no longer store as much CO2 The U.K. - Brazil research team that produced the new study used satellite measurements of dry season rainfall to estimate the magnitude of the two droughts over a study area of 5.3 million square kilometers in the southwest Amazon.

The past five years has seen a spurt in the creation of giant marine protection areas, including a 320,000 square - kilometer marine reserve announced earlier this month in Australia.

These researchers analyzed passengers arriving in the United States who left airports in Brazil located within 50 kilometers of areas that potentially could transmit Zika year - round.

And between 1995 and 2006 an average of 19,497 square kilometers of forest was cleared in the Amazon annually, or an area equal to that covered by roughly 3.5 million American football fields.

Covering an area of approximately 8,500 square miles (22,000 square kilometers), Botswana's Okavango Delta is one end of the second - longest zebra migration on Earth, a 360 - mile (580 - kilometer) round trip to the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans — the largest salt pan system on the planet.

Since then, the area has experienced a series of problems, including dozens of landslides along one 20 - mile (32 - kilometer) stretch of riverbank.

In one extreme instance, a family left the area at once, traveling more than a kilometer before they came to a halt — but they did so in response to the call of an elephant they all knew.

But if proposed protections are put in place, the study projects a much smaller area of forest would be lost — 41,650 square kilometers, over 113,000 square kilometers less than under the agricultural development scenario.

With conservative assumptions about sea level rise and the subsidence of the area, two diversion structures — large concrete sluices placed in the river embankment — would create about 700 square kilometers of land over 30 years, said Gary Parker of the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign.

The crude, spilled in the Loreto Department in the northeastern part of the country, has contaminated at least 30 kilometers of the Chiriaco River and has spread into Marañon River, one of the main tributaries that feed the Amazon drainage area.

Planetary geologists have long sought to explain regions on Mars where broad areas are littered with shattered, tilted, kilometers - thick chunks of rock.

But they note that their calculations place the major slip area in the Lushan quake about 40 to 50 kilometers apart from the southwest end of the Wenchuan quake fault.