Sentences with phrase «mile area of ocean»

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In California, oil companies are pressing for further exploration of the massive Monterey Shale, a 1,750 - square - mile area extending from the agricultural Central Valley to the Pacific Ocean that federal energy officials say could ultimately comprise two - thirds of the nation's shale oil reserves.

The search for the Malaysian jet has been focused on a 7.3 - million - square - mile area in the southern Indian Ocean off the western coast of Australia.

There's a stretch of ocean off California's coastline that's different from the rest.It starts around Bodega Bay; extends south to about 50 miles west of San Francisco; and ends in the Big Sur region.This area is infamous for shark attacks, but not just any shark: an estimated 38 % of all great white shark attacks in the US happen here.

Since The Bahamas is comprised of 700 individual islands and cays with a total land area of about 5,400 square miles scattered across 100,000 square miles of ocean, it is natural that fish and seafood are very important in the cuisine.

Kona «the area of the Big Island that grows the finest Kona cherries in the world» is a delightful drive along Hualalai's high mountainous backdrop narrow winding Cliff side passages dressed with breathtaking tropical blooms that cascade for 30 miles down the valley's of our beautiful ocean coastline.

[56] Ghana spans an area of 238,535 km2 (92,099 sq mi), and has an Atlantic coastline that stretches 560 kilometres (350 miles) on the Gulf of Guinea in Atlantic Ocean to its south.

The ancestors of hobbits probably left the rift area of Africa (Ardi's home) for Southeast Asia on foot about 2 million years ago, ultimately crossing treacherous ocean waters to land on the narrow, 230 - mile - long Indonesian island of Flores.

An estimated 1 % of world oceans are already protected by various kinds of reserves, but there are few protected areas in waters beyond the 200 - nautical - mile exclusive economic zones off national coasts.

Further, in areas of the ocean with persistent or frequent eddies, Qiu and co-authors from the Japan Meteorological Agency, Caltech and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory determined that sea level can reliably be used to calculate circulation at a fairly high resolution, that is, at fairly small length scales (resolution of 10 miles).

All told, it covered 502,000 square miles (1.3 million square kilometers) less ocean than even the year before — a loss equal to an area the size of California and Montana combined.

Should the U.N. accept their claim — an unlikely possibility, given that they've turned down similar claims from the Russian Bear in the past — Russia would be entitled to thousands of miles of the Arctic Ocean and 45 percent of the area's resources, according to some sources.

The ocean contains 320 million cubic miles of water covering 140 million miles of seafloor, more than twice the area of all the continents combined, and we've only had a look at tiny bits of it.

Analysis of radar images and some communications data have focused the search on an area of the southern Indian Ocean about 1,100 miles west of Perth, Australia.

After you've eaten, get a feel for the area's beauty on the Great Ocean Drive, a 38 kilometre (24 mile) loop from town that showcases the sugary beaches and translucent waters of the area.

During the walk the panoramic ocean views stretch for miles across three areas of the island.

The Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary (Sanctuary) consists of an area of approximately 1,110 square nautical miles (nmi) of coastal and ocean waters, and the submerged lands thereunder, off the southern coast of California.

This Cocoa Beach hotel is not only steps away from miles of sandy white beaches and the majestic waters of the Atlantic Ocean, but also boasts one of the area's largest oceanfront pool deck!

The mentawai islands are located in the middle of Indian Ocean, approximately 100 miles from Padang, west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, the Mentawai archipelago is a stunning area rich in nature and beautiful beaches that has been ecologically isolated from mainland Sumatra since the mid-Pleistocene period, resulting in high levels of endemism amongst its indigenous flora and fauna.

The more than 24 miles of ocean and bay that border the Golden Gate National Recreation Area house biologically diverse and complex ecosystems including natural islands, reefs, offshore rocks, straits, lagoons, mudflats, and beaches.

The National Park, which makes up 97 % of the land area of the Galapagos Islands is situated in the Pacific Ocean around 1,000 km (620 miles) from the South American continent.

The area offer over 50 miles of beaches stretching from the Sea of Cortez to the Pacific Ocean.

The Galapagos are an area of volcanic islands distributed around the equator in the Pacific Ocean and are 500 miles from the mainland coast of Ecuador mainland.

Virginia Beach is a coastal city located on the Atlantic Ocean in the state of Virginia with several state parks, miles of protected beach areas and hundreds of hotels and restaurants along its ocean fOcean in the state of Virginia with several state parks, miles of protected beach areas and hundreds of hotels and restaurants along its ocean focean front.

Hotel Mandatory hotel imposed resort fee inclusions: • Resort fee of $ 15.00 per room / night (plus 6.5 % sales tax) covers • wireless Internet connectivity in sleeping rooms and most public areas of the resort, • use of fitness center and DVD library, • daily newspaper, • two (2) bottles of water in your guest room, • local and toll - free phone calls, • and use of tennis courts, bocce ball, shuffleboard and horseshoes at nearby (less than half - mile) Oceans Racquet & Recreation Center • Resort fee of $ 15.00 per room / night (plus 6.5 % sales tax) covers • wireless Internet connectivity in sleeping rooms and most public areas of the resort, • use of fitness center and DVD library, • daily newspaper, • two (2) bottles of water in your guest room, • local and toll - free phone calls, • and use of tennis courts, bocce ball, shuffleboard and horseshoes at nearby (less than half - mile) Oceans Racquet & Recreation Center The above list may not be comprehensive.

• The Garden Pool, favored by families, is semi-circular, with coves and islands • The sizable Reflection Pool has a splash area and a lap lane of 118 feet (swimmers: 46 lengths to the mile); it's adults - only and a quiet zone • The freeform, infinity - edge Ocean Pool appeals to families and to lap swimmers, with an 83 - foot lap lane; it offers chilled face towels and waiter service

Virginia Beach is a coastal city located on the Atlantic Ocean in the state of Virginia with several state parks, miles of protected beach areas and hundreds of hotels and...

Our Cocoa Beach area stand up paddle shop is located in the heart of Merritt Island — just blocks from our private launch into the Banana River Wildlife Sanctuary, a mere 3 miles from the ocean, and 5 miles from the Port Canaveral Cruise Ship Terminal.

These efforts are part of 100 - 1000 partnership, with the goal of building 100 new miles of oyster reefs and 1000 miles of replanted marshlands along the Gulf in Alabama to make Alabama's coastal areas more resilient to impacts from hurricanes, oil spills and climate change.100 - 1000 is a project that was formed in 2010 and grew out of the partnership of four conservation organizations including: Alabama Coastal Foundation, Mobile Baykeeper, the Nature Conservancy and the Ocean Foundation.

The experiment involved «fertilising» a 300 - square - kilometre (115 - sqare - mile) area of ocean inside the core of an eddy — an immense rotating column of water — with six tonnes of dissolved iron.

It spread across 4.63 million square miles of the Arctic Ocean, Hudson Bay and adjacent areas of the North Atlantic — an area 224,000 square miles smaller than the previous low record for the month set in 2004.

Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, from and after enactment of the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act of 2008, the Secretary shall not offer for leasing for oil and gas, or natural gas, any area within 50 miles of the coastline that was withdrawn from disposition by leasing in the Atlantic OCS Region or the Pacific OCS Region, or the Gulf of Mexico OCS Region Eastern Planning Area, as depicted on the maps referred to in this subparagraph, under the Memorandum on Withdrawal of Certain Areas of the United States Outer Continental Shelf from Leasing Disposition, 34 Weekly Carea within 50 miles of the coastline that was withdrawn from disposition by leasing in the Atlantic OCS Region or the Pacific OCS Region, or the Gulf of Mexico OCS Region Eastern Planning Area, as depicted on the maps referred to in this subparagraph, under the Memorandum on Withdrawal of Certain Areas of the United States Outer Continental Shelf from Leasing Disposition, 34 Weekly CArea, as depicted on the maps referred to in this subparagraph, under the Memorandum on Withdrawal of Certain Areas of the United States Outer Continental Shelf from Leasing Disposition, 34 Weekly Comp.

ensure that natural gas leases are only available for tracts on the outer Continental Shelf that are wholly within 100 miles of the coastline within an area withdrawn from disposition by leasing on the day after the date of enactment of the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act of 2008;

How are these values derived and used in calculations for the computing - global warming in a small area such as a 10x10 mile square of ocean?

But to think that a 20 square mile concrete area isn't hotter than a 20 square mile forest or high grasses or patch of ocean, or even somebody's front porch on a couple of acres, is delusional, and thinking that the effects of that concrete (or asphault or mixture) 20 square miles in size doesn't extend a ways out and up is insane.

In late August, just 1.58 million square miles of sea ice covered the Arctic Ocean, the smallest such area ever observed by NASA satellites since the space agency began monitoring the Earth's polar ice caps 30 years ago.

A new study in the Arctic north shows that water at the higher latitudes are undergoing as serious changes as other areas, but they're changing at an even faster rate.Physorg writes that researchers from nine European countries have turned a coal mine village off the coast of Ny - Aalesund, just shy of 750 miles from the North Pole, into a laboratory site during July in a major effort to understand how ocean acidification is altering the northern water.

Every once in a while there's some good news on the endangered species front: A team of scientists from Oregon State University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has discovered an undetermined number of North Atlantic right whales, in an area where it was thought they had been hunted nearly extinction over a hundred years ago: The whales were discovered by using a series of underwater hydrophones to record the sound of the whales over hundreds of miles of ocean.

When the theory was tested in a 115 - square - mile area of the Southern Ocean, tiny crustacean zooplankton ate up all the phytoplankton.

It can be hard to understand how the protection of one area of ocean will impact the health and economies of nations thousands of miles away, or even on the other side of the globe.

As a consequence, over the past 30 years, areas of ocean that are at least 15 percent ice have decreased annually by nearly 390,000 square miles, an area larger than Norway, Sweden, and Denmark combined.

Situated eight miles from the Pacific Ocean within a great irrigation area as the county seat of Monterrey, the city's economy has been primarily based on agriculture.

Accurately named «the Jewel», this 7 mile stretch along the Pacific Ocean contains some of the area's most beautiful beaches.

The City of Boca Raton encompasses approximately twenty seven square miles with an unincorporated area of approximately seventy square miles, extending about seven miles north to south, and bounded on the east by the Atlantic Ocean with approximately five miles of beachfront.