Sentences with phrase «nearby islands in»

El Nido only started to become a popular holiday destination in the late «90s and, as backpackers and budget travellers were the first visitors from abroad to get there, affordable bungalows and guesthouses popped up right along the shores of El Nido municipality and the nearby islands in Bacuit Bay.

Both lethal and non-lethal gull control were introduced to nearby islands in 1998.

They can be skiing in the morning (world - record snowfall at the mountain just 30 minutes away, but seldom in the Valley), launch their boat to picnic at a nearby island in the afternoon, and ride the motorcycle or horses as an after - dinner wind - down.

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Popular things to do in Portland include tastings at the area's numerous breweries and trips to the nearby Casco Bay Islands.

L'inizio Pizza Bar in Long Island City in New York claims its sales jumped 75 % over the weekend by activating a «lure module» feature that attracts virtual Pokemon characters to the store, thereby tempting in nearby players.

Arakawa pointed to nearby Lanai Island as a model: Some 98 percent of it was purchased by Oracle founder Larry Ellison for a reported $ 300 million in 2012.

Some 600 guests were flown in on private jets and put up on the nearby island of Virgin Gorda.

And species in the Galapagos Islands seemed related to those on the nearby mainland.

Earlier in the month, Irma pummeled nearby islands including Antigua and Barbuda, St. Martin, and Anguilla.

This has long been a dream of Dave's and we missed the chance to see them while we were in Scotland but I was pleasantly surprised to find out that Reykjavik has hour long boat excursions to nearby islands where the puffins will be.

Zip Industries» Michael Crouch, who sold his boiling water business to private equity in a deal estimated to be $ 300 million, has a major farming operation nearby and was rumoured to have shown interest in the fund's King Island aggregation.

Look to the chalkboard for lesser - known cuts like coulotte, tip sirloin, and gracilis — all butchered in - house from cattle raised on Erickson's farm on nearby Whidbey Island.

It kicks off with a mercifully cool, clear morning under the Whitestone Bridge in the Bronx's Point Ferry Park, the Empire State Building visible past Riker's Island down the East River, its breeze blowing off any stench from a nearby landfill.

Drilling for oil in Long Island Sound and nearby Atlantic Ocean waterways would be catastrophic for environmental and economic reasons, dozens of speakers told federal officials at a hearing organized by Rep. Lee Zeldin, who opposes offshore drilling.

At Nassau County's other major development project, the Hub in Uniondale, the LIA is calling for a rapid bus service to the Long Island Rail Road stations in Hempstead Village and Mineola, and for three pedestrian bridges to nearby Hofstra University, Nassau Community College and the RXR Plaza offices.

Protesters will convene at the spot in Tompkinsville where Garner was placed in a fatal police chokehold and march to the Staten Island District Attorney's office, before rallying nearby.

Residents in the City of Tonawanda and Grand Island do not have access to Verizon FIOS, however nearby Town of Tonawanda does.

The city held a ground breaking in 2013 and originally planned to open it in 2014, but it was pushed back because of numerous delays on the opening of the new Staten Island Courthouse nearby.

(WBEN) Despite a steady drizzle, new views of the Niagara River, the Bird Island Pier, Canada and the Peace Bridge were in the spotlight Tuesday morning as Congressman Brian Higgins celebrated the completion of a new trail project that includes a pedestrian bridge over the NYS Thruway, echoing the bridge to Canada nearby.

For the past six months, Mr. Cryder has given numerous presentations like the one in East Marion to communities in nearby Rhode Island and Connecticut.

One warm evening this fall a pair of U.S. Army UH - 60M Blackhawk helicopters cruised low over New York City's Staten Island, providing security for the United Nations General Assembly's annual meeting in nearby Manhattan.

Stone Age seafarers may have transported red deer to far - flung Scottish islands from remote sites in Europe rather than from the Scottish mainland nearby, a new study suggests.

DEADLY DISASTER The quake that ruptured off the coast of Sumatra on December 26, 2004, was one of the deadliest earthquakes in history, mostly because it set off an enormous tsunami that destroyed nearby island communities.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) encourages the creation of green roofs for mitigating the urban «heat island effect,» whereby temperatures in crowded cities can soar some 10 degrees Fahrenheit higher than in less developed areas nearby.

Environmental microbiologist Jed Fuhrman of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles calls the situation a «nightmare» adding that his lab paused a 10 - year project of collecting monthly virus samples from the waters between Los Angeles and nearby Catalina Island.

Gary Polis and Stephen Hurd of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, surveyed the spiders on 23 islands around Angel de 1a Guarda in the Gulf of California and at four sites on the nearby Baja California peninsula (see Map).

Every year, almost half a million female olive ridleys (Lepidochelys olivacea) come to Gahirmatha beach in Orissa and the nearby islands, where they lay more than 50 million eggs.

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 populIsland 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 populisland (50 per cent heavier than wild mice anywhere in the world) and devastate the bird population.

Lead author Dr Steve Roberts from BAS says: «When we first examined the sediment cores we were struck by the intense smell of the guano in some layers and we could also clearly see the volcanic ash layers from nearby Deception Island.

The researchers spotted a segment of DNA on chromosome 8 that appeared in the colorblind islanders; then they tested another 60 people from Pingelap and nearby islands to narrow the search down further.

They found it in genomes from two populations, one from New Guinea and another from the nearby island of Bougainville.

Suspecting that Andromeda, a nearby giant spiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way, might sport a similar stream, researchers led by Rodrigo Ibata of the Strasbourg Observatory in France used the Isaac Newton Telescope at La Palma, Canary Islands, to find out.

The research, published in the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) journal Bird Study, looked at the breeding populations of three species of large gull; Herring Gull, Great Black - backed Gull and Lesser Black - backed Gull on the Hebridean island of Canna, and the relationship between these gull populations and the fall in the quantity of fish landed in the nearby harbour of Mallaig.

And, even in the case of Three Mile Island, a catastrophe was averted, although nearby residents were evacuated and the damaged Unit 2 waits to be dismantled.

English Nature expects the new marsh to grow in the manner of Barrow Hill marsh on nearby Mersea Island, which has formed since the sea invaded during the great floods along the Essex coast in 1953.

By comparing the data with a study of the nearby Ducie and Oeno atolls conducted in 1991, the team extrapolated that there is between 200 and 2,000 times more trash on Henderson now than there was on those neighboring islands back then.

From 2009 to 2010, she put out seed baskets in the jungle on Guam and three nearby islands to collect seeds of two fleshy - fruit tree species and compared the patterns between islands with birds and Guam.

In 1964 a group of climbers ventured onto the nearby island of Balls Pyramid.

In a bid to rescue it, conservationists in 1971 began collecting all the tortoises they could find on Española — just 14 — and took them to nearby Santa Cruz island to breed in captivitIn a bid to rescue it, conservationists in 1971 began collecting all the tortoises they could find on Española — just 14 — and took them to nearby Santa Cruz island to breed in captivitin 1971 began collecting all the tortoises they could find on Española — just 14 — and took them to nearby Santa Cruz island to breed in captivitin captivity.

The waters around the island of Ischia in Italy, for example, have been acidified for a long time because there is the Vesuvio volcano nearby; there are a lot of volcanic activities and CO2 sources, that is there is CO2 from the bottom to the surface, which is acidifying the water.

We didn't like how crowded it was so we agreed to leave after half an hour and decided to go to a nearby beach, Plum Island in Newburyport, which was about 10 - 15 minutes away from Colby Farm.

On the left, there are cities in Cayman Islands or nearby that you can click on any city to view singles.

At first glance, those obsessed with the night sky or astronomical concerns are played for laughs: in New York City and its nearby boroughs, a cast of amusing characters with thick regional accents illustrate that we can no longer even see the stars from the island of Manhattan.

Isle of Dogs is set 20 years in the future, in a Japan overrun with dogs and susceptible to an outbreak of dog flu, which causes the mayor to order all K9s be quarantined on a nearby garbage island.

Year: 1972 Lamer Alternate Title: Revenge of the Living Dead Plot: Dirty hippie thespians sail to a deserted island and perform a seance that raises the dead in a nearby graveyard.

The story, set in a near futuristic Japan, shows the rise and sudden decline and rejection of dogs after a strain of dog flu threatens even humans and the dogs are sent from Megasaki City to a nearby «Trash Island.»

Using a public health initiative as an excuse, the corrupt mayor Kobayashi (Kunichi Nomura) has all the dogs in the city dumped onto nearby Trash Island, where they are forced to live with the rats amongst the garbage heaps.

A film unlike anything you've seen (or will see), Julie Dash's rapturous feature debut is set at a moment of wrenching cultural crisis, when the island - dwelling Gullah — former African slaves living off the coast of South Carolina — decide in August 1902 to head to the nearby American mainland and endure the pain of a second separation from their past.

Public education in America is far from one - size - fits - all, and there is dramatic diversity within the more than 13,000 school districts across the nation — from the 1 million students in New York City's more than 1,500 public schools, to the 60 students at the K - 8 school on Beals Island, Maine, and its 100 - student high school shared with the nearby town of Jonesport.

The narrators are a member of a doomsday cult who releases poison gas in a subway in Tokyo, and details his retreat to Okinawa and a small nearby island, Kume - jima; a jazz aficionado who works as a sales clerk in a Tokyo music store; a lawyer in a financial institution in Hong Kong who has been moving large sums of money from a certain account; a woman who owns a Tea Shack on China's Holy Mountain and speaks to a tree; a non-corporeal sentient entity which is searching for who or what it is; a gallery attendant in Petersburg who is involved in an art theft scam; a ghostwriter / drummer living in London who saves a woman from being run over by a taxi; an Irish nuclear physicist who quits her job when she finds her research is being used for military purposes; and a late night radio talkback DJ who finds himself fielding calls from an intriguing caller referring to himself as the zookeeper.