Sentences with phrase «large areas of the island»

A monsoon has hit the once beautiful archipelago and heavy rainstorms have laid waste to large areas of the islands.

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The court concluded that Chinese efforts to create man - made islands on top of atolls and reefs, as well as its large - scale fishing in the disputed areas, are illegal.

MAIN POOL Awesome pool, quite large — plenty of places to relax in the pool and it even had a few raised ledges and raised islands for playtime with toddlers / infants --- my son loved laying and walking on the ledges and islands --- sometimes he would ask to «go deep» and let me carry him to the deeper areas of the pool — maybe 5 feet deep.

Park officials say that while they're looking at their 1996 plans, the only thing that's certain is that, barring the success of pending lawsuits, the island where Meigs sits eventually will become a large «natural area.»

«The largest percentage of these laundry workers live and work in Long Island and the New York City metro area,» the letter states.

Since then, lawmakers who represent areas with large numbers of state workers in their districts — the Capital Region and Long Island — have written to the Cuomo administration urging them to take action on the issue.

But Kevin Law, president and CEO of the Long Island Association, the region's largest business organization, said a bridge or tunnel to the New York or Connecticut mainland would stimulate the island's economy and create jobs, attracting businesses turned off by the time and expense of getting products to and from theIsland Association, the region's largest business organization, said a bridge or tunnel to the New York or Connecticut mainland would stimulate the island's economy and create jobs, attracting businesses turned off by the time and expense of getting products to and from theisland's economy and create jobs, attracting businesses turned off by the time and expense of getting products to and from the area.

There are three other «toss up» Congressional races in New York: the 19th Congressional district, which includes Oneonta, Cooperstown and large parts of the Hudson Valley; the 24th, which occupies the Syracuse area; and the 3rd, which is on northern Long Island.

Large areas of both North and South Islands have felt earthquakes with a magnitude greater than 5 within the past 200 years.

The researchers found that large - scale features of atmospheric circulation — in particular, the strength and position of the Aleutian Low, a semi-permanent, subpolar area of low pressure located in the Gulf of Alaska near the Aleutian Islands — largely determined the timing of snowmelt during spring in Alaska, by either facilitating or inhibiting the transport of warm, moist air into the region.

This is because individual reefs, like islands, cast a «wave shadow» over a large area, so that a matrix of individual reefs is remarkably efficient at reducing waves.»

It also provides a ranking of the top urban heat island cities among the 50 largest metropolitan statistical areas.

Together the five utilities serve roughly half of Japan's geographic area, including the largest island prefectures, and have peak demand load of roughly 50,000 megawatts.

The Picayune Strand, the first CERP project under construction, is an area in Southwest Florida that was substantially disordered by a real estate development project, which disrupted the flow into the Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge, altered regional groundwater flows in surrounding natural areas, and drained a large expanse of wetland habitat.

At the time of their designation, the largest of the sites was the 95,000 - square - mile Marianas Trench monument near the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam, an area that has been compared to an underwater Yellowstone and Grand Canyon for its unique geology of hydrothermal vents, mud volcanoes and pools of boiling sulfur.

Two years ago, Antarctica's Larsen B ice shelf collapsed over the course of 35 days; 3,250 square kilometers of shelf area — an area larger than that of Rhode Island — disintegrated.

Listed as a protected area in 1985, the Pulau Redang National Park includes nine islands, of which Pulau Redang is the largest.

Large, densely populated urban areas are highly susceptible to exhausting heat waves exacerbated by the «heat island» effect in which once permeable, cooling surfaces like open land, bodies of water and vegetation have been replaced with surfaces that capture and retain heat like asphalt and concrete.

Allstate, one of the largest residential property insurers on the east coast, elected not to renew 30,000 policies covering coastal properties in New York City, Long Island, Westchester County and Connecticut, and is considering reducing coastal area coverage in Massachusetts and along the Gulf.

The area studied two of the continent's largest glaciers, Thwaites and Pine Island, which drain into the sea and contribute to rising sea levels.

In the film Greenberg visits the preserved site of the largest passenger pigeon nesting in history in Wisconsin, a nesting area that equaled the size of 37 Manhattan Islands.

The combined surface area of the lakes is 94,250 square miles (244,100 km ²)-- larger than the states of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire combined or the provinces of Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador combined.

The four largest islands are Honsh, Hokkaid, Kysh and Shikoku, together accounting for 97 % of Japans land area.

It is the largest of the Dodecanese islands in terms of both land area and population, with a population of 117,007 and also the island group's historical capital.

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We passed by a large barricaded area surrounded by high fences and halfway covered by tarp; signs informed us that it was the future site of the Skull Island: Reign of Kong attraction.

The pack includes: DISPLAY Display banner Display border Word cards Large coloured pictures - large character and prop pictures to print out and use on a display Question cards Display lettering - an alternative display title with large letters decorated with skull and crossbones LITERACY A4 word card Parrot alphabet Writing sheets - a set of writing sheets with borders for the children to write on and use in the writing area Speech bubble worksheets - fill in the speech bubbles to show what the characters are saying Word searches Favourite part if the story - draw and write about your favourite part of the story Writing worksheet - write some sentences about the different pictures on the worksheets What happens next - A collection of worksheets for the children to draw and write what happens next in the story Describing places - describe some of the places mentioned in the story «sh» words - match the «sh» words onto the pirate ship Gold coin initial letter activity - match each letter onto the correct pictures on the cards Acrostic poem Gold coin phonemes - all of the phonemes from the Letters and Sounds scheme on gold coins - great to use in a sand tray NUMERACY Sharks number line Counting worksheets Size ordering - cut and order the pirate ships by size Follow the maze - follow the numbers from 1 - 10 and 1 - 20 to help the pirates reach the Pants of Gold Making 10 - Worksheets to make a total of 10 in each treasure chest Number digit cards from 0 - 10 - each card has a decorated number and the correct number of pirates peeping from behind the number GAMES Matching pants Roll and colour - roll a die and colour the numbered underpants on your sheet Pirate board game - travel across the island and collect the goldcoins but make sure the pirates don't stealLarge coloured pictures - large character and prop pictures to print out and use on a display Question cards Display lettering - an alternative display title with large letters decorated with skull and crossbones LITERACY A4 word card Parrot alphabet Writing sheets - a set of writing sheets with borders for the children to write on and use in the writing area Speech bubble worksheets - fill in the speech bubbles to show what the characters are saying Word searches Favourite part if the story - draw and write about your favourite part of the story Writing worksheet - write some sentences about the different pictures on the worksheets What happens next - A collection of worksheets for the children to draw and write what happens next in the story Describing places - describe some of the places mentioned in the story «sh» words - match the «sh» words onto the pirate ship Gold coin initial letter activity - match each letter onto the correct pictures on the cards Acrostic poem Gold coin phonemes - all of the phonemes from the Letters and Sounds scheme on gold coins - great to use in a sand tray NUMERACY Sharks number line Counting worksheets Size ordering - cut and order the pirate ships by size Follow the maze - follow the numbers from 1 - 10 and 1 - 20 to help the pirates reach the Pants of Gold Making 10 - Worksheets to make a total of 10 in each treasure chest Number digit cards from 0 - 10 - each card has a decorated number and the correct number of pirates peeping from behind the number GAMES Matching pants Roll and colour - roll a die and colour the numbered underpants on your sheet Pirate board game - travel across the island and collect the goldcoins but make sure the pirates don't steallarge character and prop pictures to print out and use on a display Question cards Display lettering - an alternative display title with large letters decorated with skull and crossbones LITERACY A4 word card Parrot alphabet Writing sheets - a set of writing sheets with borders for the children to write on and use in the writing area Speech bubble worksheets - fill in the speech bubbles to show what the characters are saying Word searches Favourite part if the story - draw and write about your favourite part of the story Writing worksheet - write some sentences about the different pictures on the worksheets What happens next - A collection of worksheets for the children to draw and write what happens next in the story Describing places - describe some of the places mentioned in the story «sh» words - match the «sh» words onto the pirate ship Gold coin initial letter activity - match each letter onto the correct pictures on the cards Acrostic poem Gold coin phonemes - all of the phonemes from the Letters and Sounds scheme on gold coins - great to use in a sand tray NUMERACY Sharks number line Counting worksheets Size ordering - cut and order the pirate ships by size Follow the maze - follow the numbers from 1 - 10 and 1 - 20 to help the pirates reach the Pants of Gold Making 10 - Worksheets to make a total of 10 in each treasure chest Number digit cards from 0 - 10 - each card has a decorated number and the correct number of pirates peeping from behind the number GAMES Matching pants Roll and colour - roll a die and colour the numbered underpants on your sheet Pirate board game - travel across the island and collect the goldcoins but make sure the pirates don't steallarge letters decorated with skull and crossbones LITERACY A4 word card Parrot alphabet Writing sheets - a set of writing sheets with borders for the children to write on and use in the writing area Speech bubble worksheets - fill in the speech bubbles to show what the characters are saying Word searches Favourite part if the story - draw and write about your favourite part of the story Writing worksheet - write some sentences about the different pictures on the worksheets What happens next - A collection of worksheets for the children to draw and write what happens next in the story Describing places - describe some of the places mentioned in the story «sh» words - match the «sh» words onto the pirate ship Gold coin initial letter activity - match each letter onto the correct pictures on the cards Acrostic poem Gold coin phonemes - all of the phonemes from the Letters and Sounds scheme on gold coins - great to use in a sand tray NUMERACY Sharks number line Counting worksheets Size ordering - cut and order the pirate ships by size Follow the maze - follow the numbers from 1 - 10 and 1 - 20 to help the pirates reach the Pants of Gold Making 10 - Worksheets to make a total of 10 in each treasure chest Number digit cards from 0 - 10 - each card has a decorated number and the correct number of pirates peeping from behind the number GAMES Matching pants Roll and colour - roll a die and colour the numbered underpants on your sheet Pirate board game - travel across the island and collect the goldcoins but make sure the pirates don't steal any!

Just three percent of the state's population lives here, and a single area code covers a land mass that's larger than Delaware, Rhode Island, and Connecticut combined.

As the largest park in Salem, Oregon, it's no surprise that Minto - Brown Island Park has plenty of areas to explore.

With a total area roughly the size of Colorado, the island of Newfoundland makes up 25 % of the area and 94 % of the population (approximately half a million), leaving the larger area of Labrador sparsely populated.

As the southernmost part of New York City and New York State, and home to more than 475,000 proud citizens, Staten Island is the least populated of the five boroughs even though it's third - largest in area.

Here we see that the conclusion is «The influx of subsidized cats to natural habitats, combined with their high vagility and low trappability, makes TNR an unlikely solution for controlling feral cats on a large, rugged island like Catalina and, more generally, in other locations where human populations abut ecologically sensitive areas.»

The influx of subsidized cats to natural habitats, combined with their high vagility and low trappability, makes TNR an unlikely solution for controlling feral cats on a large, rugged island like Catalina and, more generally, in other locations where human populations abut ecologically sensitive areas.

Most valuable was the tissue sample from a 15 - year old Stage - 3 retina with distinct regions of varying disease severity (Fig. 4B): Small islands of relatively normal appearing retina (Fig. 4B1) were surrounded by large areas of advanced retinal degeneration with loss of both rod and cone photoreceptors (Fig. 4B2).

The first impression is from the large mirror in the living area which reflects your initial glimpse of the Pacific Ocean and the island of Molokai.

Covering an area larger than the United Kingdom, the Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest reef system, made up of more than 2,900 coral reefs and 900 islands scattered over 344,400 sq km off the coast of Queensland in north - east Australia.

Unwind after a day of exploring the island in the main living area that boasts cathedral ceilings, plush seating and large sliding glass panel doors.

The sprawling decks offers multiple areas to relax and soak in the island sun on lounge chaises surrounding the large pool or on the U-shaped outdoor seating area — a perfect spot to socialize and share a glass of wine.

Visitors can also hike in the surrounding mountains of the Parque Nacional da Serra da Bocaina or choose from the large variety of islands and beaches in the area, some within walking distance.

The expansive set of rooms includes a separate bedroom and lounge, two elegant marbled bathrooms with rainforest shower and separate large deep sunken bathtub island, walk - in closet with private dressing room plus a luxuriously designed dining area.

The Lofoten Islands are characterised by their mountains and peaks, sheltered inlets, stretches of seashore and large virgin areas.

Hinnøya is one of four islands which form the Vesterålen; it is an area of 20.000 km ² and Norway's largest island.

In the centre of the island, Duong Dong is the largest town and is the best area for shopping.

Small Hope Bay Lodge offers several island and nature tours, providing visitors an opportunity to explore the diverse environment of this Bahamian out island, the fifth largest, and the least developed land mass in the Caribbean and tropical Atlantic area.

You can take a Greyhound Bus to Port Hardy from many of the larger towns on Vancouver Island, where you will then have to rent a car to visit the more remote areas further up north.

It's the largest airport in the U.S. by land area, at 52.4 square miles: more than one and a half times bigger than the island of Manhattan.

The islands are surrounded by the Galapagos Marine Reserve which was created in 1986 (70,000 km2) and extended to its current area (133,000 km2) in 1998, making it one of the largest marine reserves in the world.

Established in 1993, Jet Ski Hire Magnetic Island is situated in one of the largest jet ski areas on the east coast of Australia.

The largest body of fresh water on Vancouver Island (a beautiful one at that), offering campers a place to stay while allowing kayakers and windsurfers a more protected area to explore.

North Island Discovery Centre gives historical understanding for large forested area of British Columbia.