Sentences with phrase «many other small islands»

In the book it explains how they certain African countries and other small islands were selling them as an easy way for the country to increase income.

These findings are relevant for sustainable development for other small island developing states that are likely to feel a significant impact from changes to the ocean.

The Golden Isles include the islands along Georgia's Atlantic coast: Jekyll, St. Simons, and other smaller islands.

Currently more popular with locals, Bohol is the main island of Bohol province which includes 75 other smaller islands.

I was under the impression that Bali is just one big island so I was very surprised to learn that Nusa Penida is actually a part of the province, together with the other smaller islands (Nusa Lembongan and Nusa Ceningan).

The Beagle Channel is a strait separating the main island of Tierra del Fuego from various other small islands.

Turn north again and pass by Deer Island, Blackadore Caye and several other small islands on your way to Bacalar Chico Reserve.

Visiting Malapascua is slightly more expensive than other small islands, since there are not as many decent hotels there.

The Island of Guernsey is located in the English Channel and forms the Bailiwick of Guernsey with the islands of Alderney and Sark as well as a few other smaller islands.

There are at least four other small islands, barely dots in the ocean, as well as coral atolls raising out of the sparkling waters of the Southwest Gilis... more delightful islands in the making.

A small sign in the nearby village will direct you to the local boat hire area, where you can easily arrange boat trips out to Gili Nanggu and the other small islands in the area, at reasonable rates.

Whether they are situated on one of the beaches of Palawan Island, or on one of the 1,779 other smaller islands that compose the province, the most popular Palawan four - and five - star hotels give you the opportunity to discover and enjoy one of the most beautiful regions of the Philippines in style.

There are several other small islands like Nusa Penida, Nusa Ceningan, Nusa Lembongan, and Serangan Island.

I've read and heard that Bohol, Palawan and other small islands around the Philippines are still pristine and laid - back.

BlueWater Express serves daily boat trips and transfer from Bali to Lombok including Nusa Lembongan and other small island en - route.

It is surrounded by coral reefs and by other small islands that can even be reached swimming, or by crossing channels of different depths.

Other small islands where people can get married include Caye Caulker, St. Georges Caye, Royal Palm Island, Turneffe Island, South Water Caye and even Lighthouse Reef to name a few.

Our tour packages cover destinations within Komodo National Park, including the island of Rinca, Komodo, Padar, Pink Beach, Gili Laba, Kanawa, Bidadari Island and other small islands.

Star exploring Lombok and other small islands or Gili of Gili Meno, Gili Air and Gili Trawangan.

For other small islands such as Thatch Caye, Whipray Caye, French Louie Caye and Southwater Caye, you'll need to get to the mainland jumping off point for your island destination and then take a boat to the caye.

Palawan is an archipelagic province of the Philippines located in the region of MIMAROPA composed of the main Palawan Island (which it is named after) and a number of other smaller islands surrounding it, totaling roughly 1,780 islands and islets.

Sea cruises are a great experience to see the beauty of other small islands such as Nusa Lembongan and Nusa Penida.

In the distance lie St. John, St. Thomas, and many other small islands - as the sun sets, one can imagine just what it was like when Christopher Columbus sailed through the West Indies.

Indeed, analysis by my colleague has shown that such commitments only get us 65 percent of the reductions we need to meet the 2 degrees C goal, to say nothing of the 1.5 degrees C goal that Tuvalu and other small island nation states have pushed for.

A more suitable target, some say, would be to aim for zero emissions from shipping as early as 2035, as was demanded by the Marshall Islands and several other small island states.

Even with decisions on loss and damage deferred, COP 23 was a moment when Pacific islands and other small island states put the brutal, front - line impacts of climate change at the centre of the discussion.

Not exact matches

Many young people leave Tangier — some for college, others for the military, some to find partners, since romance can be difficult on such a small island.

«The U.S. has obviously been clear about where it stands with the Paris Agreement, but it is heartening that 19 other countries reaffirmed their commitment to the agreement,» said Thoriq Ibrahim, minister of energy and environment for the Maldives and Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States, a group of countries vulnerable to the effects of global warming.

St. Louis (Wm. S & Co.) embossed pepper sauce bottle; a clear spiral design McIlhenny Tabasco Sauce bottle, as well as a rare barrel - shaped McIlhenny Tabasco Sauce bottle along with other embossed McIlhenny & Co., Avery Island Tabasco Pepper Sauce bottles; an early open - pontiled Wells Miller & Provost (W. M. & P. N.Y.) embossed pepper sauce bottle; a small bulbous embossed Trappey's pepper sauce bottle; an embossed Evangeline Pepper Sauce Made in St. Martinville, LA USA pepper sauce bottle; several different embossed pepper sauce bottles from the Horseshoe PickleWorks Ltd. of New Orleans; an embossed Jumbo Brand Pepper Sauce The Frank Tea & Spice Co..

The only tiny complaint is that sand gets everywhere and the hotel could follow many others on the island and have a «sand shell» outside the room so that you can wash your feet before going in — but that is really a small grouch.

Keeping everybody within your group happy is certainly a priority on any vacation, and whether you're staying on Lanai or are hoping to make a day trip from your home at other Hawaii hotels, finding ways to stuff your itinerary full with family - friendly activities is by no means difficult on this small but dynamic island!

Her eyes got big and she started talking about other pregnant ladies on island and how one in particular is much smaller than me.

«There is no reason other communities well - served by the New York City Subway or Long Island Railroad enjoy a far smaller toll burden and toll - free bridges.»

In general, a federation of republican states would outlaw secrecy jurisdictions (and seek to support small island economies that have become dependent on this practice in other ways) but, in the first instance, there are three more immediate steps that can be taken.

It is our ability to look forward and outward and our capacity for reinvention — in other words our liberalism — that ensures this small island remains a giant on the world stage.

Long Island notched small population gains from 2014 to 2015 on the strength of growth in Nassau County, while Suffolk County's population dipped — largely the result of people leaving for other parts of the nation.

Long Island notched small population gains from 2014 to 2015 on the strength of growth in Nassau County, while Suffolk County's population dipped — largely the result of people leaving for other parts of the nation, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates released Thursday.

DiNapoli, a former assemblyman from Long Island, reported a $ 3,438 AT&T dividend on his 2021 tax return, smaller amounts from four other investment holdings, $ 1,074 in Citibank interest and $ 2,317 capital gains from selling shares in Verizon Communications and Alcatel Lucent.

«The Liberal Democrats are likely to lose out more than the other main parties because their seats are yellow islands in a sea of red or blue; changing the boundaries is more likely to bring in hostile territories, their majorities tend to be smaller than Labour or Conservative MPs and their Lib Dems trade a lot on incumbency and constituency service.

The creature evolved its small size, they surmised, as a response to the limited resources available on its island home — a phenomenon that had previously been documented in other mammals, but never humans.

This year, Fiji has the presidency of the United Nations talks, and it's prioritizing the concerns of its residents in the South Pacific and other members of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS).

Now, Cox plans to explore whether small founding groups are characteristic of other early island settlements, including Hawaii.

Also, since small islands seldom support rattlesnakes, coyotes or other predators of birds, they become home to large seabird colonies.

On the other end of the spectrum, the European Union, the Alliance of Small Island States and the group of least developed countries, led by Gambia, offered a spectrum of practical ideas for pushing countries to do more.

Studies from islands including Flores, Sri Lanka, and others suggest that early colonizers often coexisted with native fauna, perhaps because their populations were smaller and their technology simpler, or because they did not introduce invasive species such as rats and dogs.

On April 20, 2006, two small sky - monitoring cameras thousands of miles apart — one in Chile, the other in the Canary Islands — both recorded a bright starlike spot of light that rotated with the heavens for about 10 minutes before vanishing.

The continent has suffered more than a quarter of all recent mammal extinctions, and many other native species survive only as small populations on one or more of the country's thousands of islands.

After that heyday, the bears must have been split up into small, isolated populations — genetic bottlenecks — perhaps as they sought refuge on islands and other areas not covered by advancing glaciers during the most recent ice age.

In the late 1980s, the entire remaining population of the parrot was relocated on numerous occasions to various small islands that had to be re-vegetated and made free of feral cats and other predators.

The tyrannosaurid dinosaurs likely evolved in isolation on the island continent, with incursions of the seaway separating small areas of land from each other.