Sentences with phrase «largely uninhabited»

It was largely uninhabited through the 1950s but is now a popular vacation destination, as well a home to many people.

There has even been a call for not allowing wind turbines within three kilometres from homes, creating 28 square kilometre exclusion zones; this would probably make wind farms unviable anywhere except the largely uninhabited pastoral districts, the deserts, and off - shore.

It has sun and wind, is largely uninhabited, and could be readily developed if a HVDC line were Perth to Port Augusta.

Most of your time in the game's single player mode will be spent journeying across a largely uninhabited land called the Downside in a covered wagon, occasionally stopping to talk to your allies.

Beyond the occasional hammerhead shark or elusive octopus, the Great Blue Hole is largely uninhabited.

The Mergui Archipelago is largely uninhabited, with hundreds of islands stretching 400 km up the West coast of Myanmar.

Rio Dulce's the jumping north place for the largely uninhabited Peten region where lurk the fabulous Mayan ruins at Tikal and the wonder of the neighboring tourist town of Flores, plunked at the end of a causeway in Lago Peten Itza.

With only a small community living in the island, it is largely uninhabited.

Among many other reasons to make it the perfect summer surf holiday destination, Southwest France offers hundreds of kilometers of largely uninhabited beach, famous for punchy sandbars and its incredibly consistent barrels.

As a country, Costa Rica was largely uninhabited until the early 1900s, a resource rich country full of dense tropical jungle that made travelling through it nigh on impossible.

The northern reaches are largely uninhabited, but it's here where you'll find the best beaches and untouched tracks of land, which can be explored by bike, while the island's main town, San Pedro, sits on the southern coast.

Camp right on the lake's white sandy beaches, and rent a pontoon boat and spend a full day exploring the shores of this largely uninhabited area.

The Grenadines & Grenada are known as the «jewels of the Caribbean», a long chain of islands, largely uninhabited, separated by crystal clear emerald waters.

This 16 - day cruise aboard the glamorous small ship Le Lyrial — of the PONANT cruise line fleet — will travel to remote and largely uninhabited islands, most of which are nature preserves, to experience and witness animals and ecosystems virtually untouched by tourism.

The small and largely uninhabited islands of Ko Sima, Ko Tolang and Ko Lek add to the splendid eastern views, while Ko Phi Phi can be clearly seen to the west.

Located just off the coast of East Africa and largely uninhabited until the late 18th century, the Seychelles» 116 islands are home to some of the most pristine natural landscapes in the world.

There is a reason the northern expanses of Canada are largely uninhabited: most of us like a little warmth now and then.

It was largely uninhabited through the 1950s but is now a popular vacation destination, as well a home to many people.

Situated off the northeast coast of Malaysia, Pulau Bidong (pulau means island in Malay) was largely uninhabited until shortly after the fall of Saigon in April 1975 (see Beyond the Book for The Sympathizer) when the first refugees from Vietnam, a boatload of 47 people, made the hazardous 700 mile trip across the South China sea.

Half a century earlier, the islands were largely uninhabited and the wolf was abundant.

Most such regions are not on land or are largely uninhabited, the equatorial Pacific Ocean and the Arctic prominent among them.

Gough Island might have been largely uninhabited by humans, but 50 years later, residents of nearby islands raised questions about the unusually vicious mice that now roam the island (50 per cent heavier than wild mice anywhere in the world) and devastate the bird population.

It's fortunate that it happened in a largely uninhabited area, so as far as I know, no one was actually killed or injured in the process, but it was a huge event.

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Until the 11th century, the majority of modern Ghana's territorial area was largely unoccupied and uninhabited by humans.

Those adventures consist largely of meetings with puffed - up, self - important adults who imagine themselves to be powerful despots but are, in fact, just orbiting the universe alone on their own similarly uninhabited rocks.