Sentences with phrase «kilometers near the island»

To quantify spatio - temporal patterns of reef use for three species of shark, the authors of this study analyzed data from acoustic transmitters placed on 18 sharks — 6 lemon sharks, 10 tiger sharks, and 2 Caribbean reef sharks — that were tracked with acoustic receivers covering an area of more than 1,000 square kilometers near the island of St. Thomas.

Not exact matches

Plunging into the ocean off the west coast of Vancouver Island, the more than 800 kilometers of fiber optic cables that connect the research stations stretch across the continental shelf, plummet down the slope and across an abyssal plain, and skirt hydrothermal vents near a mid-ocean ridge where the Earth gives birth to new ocean crust.

After maturing, the squid swim several hundred kilometers south to cooler, plankton - rich waters near the Falkland Islands, where international fishing vessels normally catch them in great numbers between February and June.

This image shows two streamlined islands that formed as the water was diverted by two 8 - 10 kilometer (5 - 6 mile) diameter craters lying near the mouth of Ares Vallis in Chryse Planitia.

Scientists have found what appears to be a 250 - kilometer - wide crater near the Falkland Islands.

Situated near Roca Lisa within a gated community with 24 - hour security, the villa enjoys a fabulous location within minutes of the beaches along the eastern shore of the island, and about eleven kilometers from Ibiza Town.

Madeira is actually an island 1,000 kilometers away from the mainland, more near to Africa than Portugal, situated next to the Canary Islands.

The range of the gradient is 12 kilometers (grid 12 km by 12 km) and its purpose is to show whether or not accurate and meaningful C12 / C14 measurements can be made anywhere near a powerplant (for instance) without introducing the same bias as, say, an «urban heat island».