Sentences with phrase «km wide»

According to [University of Calgary aurora researcher] Eric Donovan's analysis of satellite data from the European Space Agency (ESA)'s Swarm mission, Steve is caused by a 25 km wide ribbon of hot gases at an altitude of 450 km (280 miles), wih a temperature of 3000 °C and flowing at a speed of 6 km / s (compared to 10 m / s outside the ribbon).

We already have km wide plumes of methane bubbling up in the Arctic.

Gyre - Basin - scale ocean horizontal circulation pattern with slow flow circulating around the ocean basin, closed by a strong and narrow (100 - 200 km wide) boundary current on the western side.

In Bass Strait the continental shelf extends from west of King Island around 500 km to east of Flinders Island and the Strait is about 200 km wide.

Again, these figures are in most cases very conservative; for example, the «Shark Bay to Moora hinterland» area of high wind is some 40 to 100 km wide, it most likely could support more than three rows of turbines.

The study area for this paper includes the entire California Floristic Province and a surrounding area of equal size in the form of an approximately 200 km wide buffer (Fig. 1A, all colored areas).

The resulting swath is a little larger than 1 km wide, thus the zenith angle sensitivity is centered around zero degrees along the ground track.

In the case of the very large (7 km wide, 100 m high above water front) Illulisat (Jacobshavn) glacier, the retreat started at or before 1850.

Causing a wall of new ice shingles 1 Km wide, 10 meters above the ice surface, as long as the eye can see.

228,300 cubic metres per second thru a 660 km wide gap = about 350 litres per second per metre of gap.

Roughly Greenland has a perimeter of 6600 km Say 10 % of this is open to the present - day ocean, gives a «gap» 660 km wide for GIS to empty though.

The island is quite small, 2 km wide and 3 km long, taking around 2 and half hours to walk around the entire perimeter.

Bali is a part of Indonesian archipelago; lying 3.2 km east of Java and 24 west of Lombok, compare with some of the Indonesian archipelago's giant islands, Bali is quite small with an area of 5,632 square kilometers The island is approximately 135 km wide east to west and 90 km north to south.

Villa Espanhola overlooks the San Martino Lake, a warm water lagoon 15 km long and 4 km wide which lies alongside the Indian Ocean.

These islands, lying east to west, are separated by an 80 Km wide passage and the Sape Straight.

It is roughly 90 km long and 30 km wide, offering many pristine island resorts and small inhabited villages.

While Boracay Island may be pretty small — 7 km in length and less than 2 km wide — it hosts no less than 17 beaches and coves of all shapes and sizes.

The land area is approximately 8,000 sq. km wide with hilly terrains and flat plains.

Fraser Island is 120 km long and 15 km wide and also known as the largest sand island in the world.

It is 1.5 km wide and 985ft deep.

Just 11 km long and 2 km wide, its many perfect beaches are safe, pristine and tranquil.

Just 4.5 km long and 2.5 km wide and 50 m high at its highest point.

At less than three km long and two km wide, Gili Trawangan is one of three small islands off the northeast coast of Indonesia's Lombok Island; while «gili», if you are interested, simply means «small island» in Sasak, the language spoken by most people in Lombok.

Stockton Beach is a 32 km long stretch of beach, in some areas its as much as 1 km wide and has sand dunes over 30 meters high.

The dramatic beauty of the 6 km wide caldera is undoubtedly worth a visit.

Just 11 km long and 2 km wide, two thirds of its land mass is covered by Banyan, Pandanus and native Kentia Palm forests, its many perfect beaches are safe, pristine and tranquil.

It's about 290 km long and 110 km wide.

At 161 km long, 27 km wide and about 550 m deep, it's the second largest canyon in the world.

The resort's coastline is essentially one large bay which is 9 km wide but is broken up into three smaller bays.

At just 11 km long and roughly 1 km wide, the island is ideal for exploring on foot, with secluded, sheltered bays, spectacular fringing reefs, eucalypt forests and plenty of beautiful bushwalks and scenic lookouts to discover.

In the north, water depth averages 2 - 3 m over a flat, featureless bottom 20 - 25 km wide.

Ranked number 6 in the world in terms of size, Sumatra stretches 1,790 km from the northwestern tip to the southeast and is over 400 km wide in parts, making it an immense island to travel through on aging buses and roads.

The most famous volcanoes are towards the east where you have the alien landscape of the epic 10 km wide Tenggar cauldera with Mount Bromo and two other peaks best visited at sunrise.

The Leizhou Peninsula is the third largest peninsula in China with an area of c. 8,500 square kilometers (3,300 sq mi) located on the southwestern end of Guangdong, with the Gulf of Tonkin to the west and the 30 km wide Qiongzhou Strait to the south, separating the peninsula from Hainan Island.

With a territory of 73,909 km ², it is about 750 km long and averages about 100 km wide.

Chongqing is a major industrial city; there are several motorcycles and car factories here as well as chemical, steel, coal, textile,... Chongqing occupies a vast area (470 km wide at its widest) and all you see are hundreds of skyscrapers on every hill you can see through the fog.

Located in the Cyclades group of islands, the Greek island of Paros lies in the Aegean Sea, to the west of the island of Naxos from which it is separated by a channel that is around 8 km wide.

The British Columbian Vancouver Island in Canada is the largest Pacific island east of New Zealand, measuring 500 km long and 100 km wide.

It is 446 km long and up to 29 km wide and estimated at two billion years old (although new research suggest it is a lot more recent, only 5 or 6 million years old).

Located off the coast of Queensland, Fraser Island is a heritage - listed location that measures approximately 120 km long and 24 km wide.

Fraser Island is 123 km long and 22 km wide.

It is the most famous and most important national park of South Africa, 380 km long and 60 km wide.

It is 10 km long and around 2 km wide and it covers 1,965 hectares.

An important component of the Pacific «Ring of Fire», Mount Batur and its double calderas with a crescent - shaped volcanic lake (7 km long, 1.5 km wide) and located 1031m above sea level was called the finest caldera in the world.

Well, for starters, the falls are 2.7 km wide and are actually made up of 275 separate waterfalls, making them largest waterfall system in the world.

Hike to its volcano's rim and peer over the edge into the crater's incredible gigantic hole (over 3 km wide).

The island is 13 km wide and 22 km long, with rugged terrain ranging in elevation from sea level to 631 m.

Anguilla is just 26 km long and 5 km wide so real estate is at a premium.

By using Seoul when its investment city, a mainland is definitely roughly 1, 030 km long plus 175 km wide during its narrowest factor.

The map was nearly 3 km long and 2.8 km wide with a total outline periphery of 14.7 km.