Sentences with phrase «meter above sea level»

It's not easy living thousands of meters above sea level.

They are situated 1200 meters above sea level offering cool summers and crisp winters.

All of the residences are 12 meters above sea level which keeps you safe and also gives you a fantastic sea view.

By the time we reach 1500 meters above sea level where we will set up our tents.

The land here is a few hundred meters above sea level so it attracts a very different set of birds than those that are found near the ocean.

Thousands of inhabitants live mere meters above sea level, so disaster could strike at any point.

It sits on a privately owned farm more than 1600 meters above sea level in southern Namibia, some 120 kilometers west of the city of Luderitz.

Pikes Peak is an unforgiving Hill Climb, spanning 12.42 miles and 156 corners, rising to 4,300 meters above sea level with oxygen levels at the -LSB-...]

Rising from the deep blue sea, the only evidence of Shark Point is the exposed tip of a rock pinnacle, which is only a few meters above sea level.

With a design based on sustainable architecture, Arakur Resort & Spa is situated 250 meters above sea level surrounded by stunning panoramic views, native forests, natural terraces and green areas harmonically integrated into the environment.

At an altitude 1000 - 1600 meters above sea level Lam Dong is renowned for Arabica coffee production.

One recent study by Gordon McGranahan, Deborah Balk, and Bridget Anderson (2007) found that although coastal areas less than 10 meters above sea level constitute only 2 percent of the world's land area, they contain 10 percent of the world's population.

Other tests indicate that the long - lost peak — now dubbed Kaena volcano — grew from the sea floor and broke through the ocean's surface about 3.5 million years ago, eventually reaching a height of about 1000 meters above sea level before it began sinking back into the sea.

On the Norwegian coast there are huge sea caves now uplifted 30 or more meters above sea level.

Next stop of the tour is Lake Beratan, which is located at an altitude of 1240 meter above sea level next to Mount Beratan and Mount Catur.

The expedition currently underway is exploring three sites in the High Andes of Madidi, specifically within the Puina valley between 3,750 meters and 5,250 meters above sea level in Yungas paramo grasslands, Polylepis forests and high mountain puna vegetation.

With it's simply stunning location 70 meters above sea level on the cliff tops, Uluwatu Temple is justifiably one of the most popular places on the island to watch sunset.

While perhaps more mundane than the megaboulders (found only locally on Eleuthera), the sedimentological structures found within chevron ridge and runup deposits across islands throughout the Bahamas and Bermuda point to frequent and repeated inundation by powerful storm waves, in some locations leaving storm deposits tens of meters above sea level.

Guests can enjoy tractor rides when staying at Protea Farm, which carries its load of passengers, and meanders its way up the Langeberg Mountain to an altitude of 1,500 meters above sea level offering stunning views of the valley.

This has meant that the style and layout and overall running of these small 10 person resorts are all inline perfectly with the Balinese culture creating the perfect traditional approach to luxury accommodation in this wonderful area.Ubud is located in the center of Bali at just over 600 meters above sea level where you can enjoy amazing views of Bali including rice paddies, river valleys and tropical woodland all at cooler temperatures and away from the conventional tourist areas of the south.

With six dining venues starting on the 102nd floor, including state - of - the - art designer Chinese and Italian restaurants, and lobby lounge, the alfresco rooftop bar will be a truly stunning venue at 490 meters above sea level with outstanding views over Hong Kong.

«About 8,700 meters» — that's meters above sea level, or 500 feet from the summit.

We were 2023 meters above sea level, or approximately 6,600 feet, in a rain shadow that is formed by the Sierra Gorda, creating a high altitude desert.

Following a long, winding drive past literally millions of coffee bushes to the top of the farm, 1,400 meters above sea level, I looked out over the one thousand plus - hectare estate, the largest contiguous coffee farm in the country.

The geologic evidence indicates that the higher sea - levels were accompanied by intense «superstorms,» which deposited giant wave - transported boulders at the top of cliffed coastlines, formed chevron - shaped, storm beach ridges in lowland areas, and left wave runup deposits on older dunes more than 30 meters above sea level.

Dradül rushed out to Aru Co Lake, 5100 meters above sea level, to help with the rescue.

The skeptic The railway, which connects Lhasa to the China's national railway network, the largest in the world, traverses the Tibetan Plateau 5,182 meters above sea level and crosses about 550 kilometers of some of the most delicate and treacherous frozen soil regions on Earth.

However, when most people think of Yakushima, their attention is first drawn by the Jomon cedars 500 meters above sea level, and the value of the lowland laurel forests is not widely known.

The researchers kept the animals in chronically thin air that's similar to the oxygen levels people would experience at the peak of Mont Blanc, the tallest mountain in the Alps, which soars nearly 5000 meters above sea level.

The new model has recently been put to the test in New York City, where the rate of sea level rise is more than 3 mm per year in an area that currently houses more than $ 25 billion of infrastructure at less than 1 meter above sea level.

The storage site near Fukushima's reactor 4, where the leak was discovered, lies some 50 meters above sea level and is just a few hundred meters from the coast.

Most of the nation is about 1.5 meters above sea level, a threshold that could easily be breached by the end of the century if current projections of sea - level rise occur.

The models represent the frogs that live in two different sites: one in the Amazonian lowland and one in a valley at about 500 meters above sea level.

They compared the Tibetans to a group of 50 volunteers from the Cleveland area, which is about 200 meters above sea level.

The biggest marine landslide ever recorded happened 7,200 years ago off the coast of Norway, and there was a tsunami, but it was a far cry from leaving deposits 200 meters above sea level,» Bryant says.

Hayes and his team measured the elevation of lakes filled with liquid as well as those that are now dry, and found that lakes exist hundreds of meters above sea level, and that within a watershed, the floors of the empty lakes are all at higher elevations than the filled lakes in their vicinity.

Even here, at 2,700 meters above sea level, he is still staring through an ocean of air, and the wind is rising.

Built at an altitude of 5200 meters above sea level, on the Chajnantor plateau in northern Chile, ALMA is a collaboration between the United States, Japan, Europe, and Chile.

The researchers» findings show that living between 2000 and 2500 meters above sea level offered the best performance enhancement compared to living at higher or lower elevations.

That glacier is 6,300 meters above sea level, and Ginot says it will be far more challenging than Col du Dôme.

France's Polar Institute Paul - Émile Victor and its partner, Italy's National Antarctic Research Program manage the station, which is 3,800 meters above sea level and has an annual average temperature of — 55 degrees C. Ultimately, the project would store dozens of ice cores from glaciers around the world, safely dug into the snow in the world's safest freezer, Chappellaz says.

There, on a single mountain range located 1,100 meters above sea level, scientists have recently found what may be the last few white lemuroid ringtail possums (Hemibelideus lemuroides), a species that was all but wiped out by a heat wave in 2005.

Taking into account the sizes of the boulders, the height of the plateaus, and the local topography, they estimate that a single tsunami resulting from the sudden, total collapse of the volcano's flank must have run up on Santiago to elevations of more than 270 meters above sea level.

A spokesperson for Baylor described a system of gates and concrete walls rising 15 meters above sea level.

By comparing the altitudinal distribution of 171 forest plant species between 1905 and 1985 and 1986 and 2005 along the entire elevation range (0 to 2600 meters above sea level) in west Europe, we show that climate warming has resulted in a significant upward shift in species optimum elevation averaging 29 meters per decade.