Sentences with phrase «kilometer island chain»

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.

Not exact matches

The Cocos plate, on which the islands» some 1,000 - kilometer - long (620 - miles) hotspot chain once sat, is moving to the northeast.

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.

The Galápagos Islands, a chain of islands 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) west of mainland Ecuador, are home to the only penguins in the Northern HemiIslands, a chain of islands 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) west of mainland Ecuador, are home to the only penguins in the Northern Hemiislands 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) west of mainland Ecuador, are home to the only penguins in the Northern Hemisphere.

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.

Probably not: the island chain is 2,353 miles / 3741 kilometers southwest across the briny blue.

Felicite Island is a tiny granite gem, about three square kilometers in size, situated like a glimmering grey pearl in the middle of the Seychelles island Island is a tiny granite gem, about three square kilometers in size, situated like a glimmering grey pearl in the middle of the Seychelles island island chain.