Sentences with phrase «kilometers along»

The white sands and clear waters stretch for seven kilometers along Whitsunday Island.

As the name suggests, this famous trail head is situated 82 kilometers along the railway from Cuzco, on the way to Aguas Calientes and Machu Picchu.

Stretching some 243 kilometers along the victorian coastline it is littered with photo opportunities to take your breath away.

This nature reserve stretches forty kilometers along the whole southern shore.

Close to your accommodation you'll find Surfers Paradise Beach, which stretches three kilometers along the «glitter strip» and is patrolled weekends and public holidays from September to May.

Tortuguero National Park extends north 22 kilometers along the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica, beginning at Jaloba and reaching up to the Tortuguero village.

2 DAY SHORT INCA TRAIL TO MACHU PICCHU with CAMPING: - AVAILABLE: — Inca Trail shorter «s version leaves from KM 104, located at 2100 masl (104 kilometers along the railway from Cusco to Aguas Calientes) and involves a 16 Km of walk in total.

Dressed in samurai armor, the team, led by Garuda Indonesia president commissioner Jusman Syafeii Djaman, marched for at least three kilometers along the main street of Kofu with 1,500 other festival participants.

Santa Marta is a convenient and popular place to stay for those heading into Tayrona National Park, the vast, mountainous national park covering roughly 300 square kilometers along the coastline that stretches deep into the mountains.

In a good mood we begin our last eight kilometers along the train tracks.

But I am currently almost 2000 kilometers along the way, travelling between Strathmore and Drumheller, Alberta.

The men on average carry nearly their own body weight in goods, hauling everything from rice to televisions for up to 100 kilometers along steep dirt paths.

Another shot of Pele, taken at night, reveals a curving line of glowing dots that extend for 9.6 kilometers along the edge of the caldera.

The protons will travel 27 kilometers along the ring - shaped underground tunnel.

The team observed a region of turquoise - colored, sulfide - infused water that stretched more than 200 kilometers along the coast of the Namib Desert.

The Hamoun wetlands, which once encompassed as much as 5800 square kilometers along Iran's border with Afghanistan and supported settlements stretching back 5 millennia, «are an ecological catastrophe,» says Nayyereh Pourmollae, who heads the environment department of Sistan and Baluchestan province in southeastern Iran.

Not exact matches

From Belarus, only the 50 - mile (80 - kilometer) «Suwalki Gap» along the Polish - Lithuanian border separates these forces from Russia's Kaliningrad enclave.

The river is roughly a kilometer long, but there are various exits along the way if you've had enough.

The 3 - mile (4.8 - kilometer) bridge links Westchester and Rockland counties along the New York State Thruway north of New York City.

A host of dignitaries attended the ribbon - cutting ceremony for the 3 - mile (4.8 - kilometer) bridge, which links suburban Westchester and Rockland counties along the New York State Thruway north of New York City.

Along the sharp outer edge of the most massive ring (the B ring), we found an incredible 20,000 - kilometer - long continuous string of spiky shadows betraying the presence of «ring mountains» — waves of particles extending three kilometers above the ring plane.

Spacecraft screaming along at many thousands of kilometers per hour have to hit the brakes hard, firing retrorockets to swing into orbit.

But taking along just a little extra fuel can then gently lower a ballistically captured spacecraft into scientifically valuable, standard orbits of around 100 to 200 kilometers like those achieved with Hohmann transfers — or even onward to the Martian surface for a landing.

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.

By combining observations from the ground and in space, the team observed a plume of low - energy plasma particles that essentially hitches a ride along magnetic field lines — streaming from Earth's lower atmosphere up to the point, tens of thousands of kilometers above the surface, where the planet's magnetic field connects with that of the sun.

But analyses of earthquake vibrations along Earth's surface have suggested that continents could run 200 or 300 kilometers deep, very gradually transitioning from cold, hard rock to hotter, gooier material.

In the figure, measurements of the strength of mantle flow are shown along with the colored map of seismic wave speed at 195 kilometers (121 miles) beneath the Earth's surface, under the North American tectonic plate.

The deluge carved a 200 - kilometer - long channel along the seafloor as it filled the western part of the basin.

They simulated earthquakes with magnitudes between 9.0 and 9.6 originating at different locations along the Aleutian - Alaska subduction zone, a 3,400 - kilometer (2,113 - mile) long ocean trench stretching along the southern coast of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands where the Pacific tectonic plate is slipping under the North American plate.

Researchers believe that the cloud top reacts by driving swarms of electrons into the upper atmosphere; along the way, the electrons crash into nitrogen molecules between 50 and 90 kilometers high and make them glow a fiery red.

Along the U.S. West Coast, the jet stream was shifted hundreds of kilometers north last winter, which had the effect of dousing the Pacific Northwest with extraordinary precipitation while Southern California experienced its fourth straight year of drought.

Some of the flows zip along at nearly 10 kilometers per second, allowing them to achieve very high magnetic Reynolds numbers.

Krause turned to a collection of 151 mummy heads from the ancient settlement of Abusir el - Meleq, about 100 kilometers south of Cairo along the Nile.

With the data, they constructed a dynamic picture of the earthquake, which was a rupture of a 20 - by -140-kilometer patch along the Main Himalayan Thrust (MHT)-- a 2200 - kilometer - long fault zone that runs near the southern border of Tibet.

Some glaciers along the Amundsen Sea coast of West Antarctica (hundreds of kilometers east of Whillans) have already accelerated by up to 60 percent due to this process.

Along a 3 - kilometer stretch of the Tollense River, archaeologists from the Mecklenburg - Vorpommern Department of Historic Preservation (MVDHP) and the University of Greifswald (UG) have unearthed wooden clubs, bronze spearheads, and flint and bronze arrowheads.

The twin LIGO stations each pass laser light back and forth between mirrors along perpendicular four - kilometer - long arms arranged in an L.

But in Haiti itself, his on - site survey revealed that the waves may have reached as high as three meters — and that several meter - high waves struck along a 100 - kilometer stretch of shoreline, all the way into the neighboring Dominican Republic.

Such a scarp runs vertically along the right edge of the image (bottom), which encompasses a horizontal extent of about 200 kilometers.

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

Yesterday, President Arnoldo Aleman signed a $ 7.1 million funding agreement with the World Bank's Global Environment Facility to set up wildlife parks along a 320 - kilometer portion of eastern Nicaragua.

In 1986, Venezuela's Raúl Leoni Dam flooded 1,660 square miles (4,300 square kilometers) of land, creating the vast Lake Guri, along with a scattering of nonsubmerged land.

Remarkably, as few as four whales could be decimating otters along 3300 kilometers of shoreline between the Kiska and Seaguam islands.

Last night, Hercules and Leo — along with seven younger males who were part of their social group at New Iberia — boarded what was essentially a long, climate - controlled horse trailer and began a 14 - hour, 1000 - kilometer journey from Louisiana to Georgia.

During the outbreak, the disease spread over a 400 - kilometer stretch along Florida's coast and hit 16 other coral species.

It would send beams of neutrinos and antineutrinos along a 1,300 - kilometer underground path to a detector in the Homestake mine near Lead, South Dakota.

They compiled 5 years of wind data from 11 offshore weather - monitoring stations buoyed along 2500 kilometers of the East Coast.

Knowing this value of g for Earth's surface, along with the constant G and the 6,731 - kilometer distance to Earth's center, you can then calculate Earth's mass to be 6 x 1024 kilograms.

Larsen C, covering about 55,000 square kilometers, is the largest ice shelf along the Antarctic Peninsula.

Earthquake researchers have now identified a 30 kilometers long and ten kilometers deep area along the North Anatolian fault zone just south of Istanbul that could be the starting point for a strong earthquake.