Sentences with phrase «occupies a land area»

Occupying a land area of about 400 km2 at the northern tip of Palawan Island, El Nido is a first - class municipality that also comprises 45 islands and islets, all of them part of the Bacuit Archipelago.

Wycliffe Well Holiday Park occupies a land area of approximately 60 acres, housing onsite accommodation options, grassed unpowered spaces and powered sites.

Coal production in the countries that occupy the land area of the FSU peaked in 1990 and was down 31 % since 1980.

The entire town occupies a land area of only 2.10 square miles.

Not exact matches

«The footprint of industrial fishing in the ocean is over four times larger than the land area occupied by agriculture.»

When it left the Central Valley, agricultural colonization became Cattle - based and extensive, occupying great areas of land in order to sustain a dispersed population.

Dr. V. Kurien, in an Address in 1991, had warned about this new imperialism: «It would mean that one - fourth of the world's population would occupy three - fourths of its area while the remaining three - fourths of the World's people must make do on but one - fourth of its land.

As a way of demanding their right to housing, what became known as the movimiento de pobladores (the dwellers» movement) coordinated land seizures, occupying brownfields and abandoned areas and erecting dwellings.

A new Israeli government should be more reasonable and recall its military from the West Bank's area C and return most of the occupied land.

Yet, what its government is orchestrating in the West Bank's areas B and C (respectively 60 % and 22 % of the West Bank) is the use of security as an alibi to permanently station its military forces, control Palestinian mobility, and seize unoccupied (or partly occupied) Palestinian land.

Cities themselves consume resources, including food, timber, water and energy, harvested over vastly wider areas than the land that they physically occupy, and this greater footprint needs to be considered in any overall assessment to get a true picture.

But the amount of land space taken up by cities is actually relatively small compared with the number of people they shelter: satellite image composites show that urban sites cover only 2.8 per cent of the Earth's land; accordingly the UN estimates that about 3.3 billion people occupy an area less than half the size of Australia.

Gaveau said analysis by his organization showed the fires on the two largest burnt areas in Indonesia's Riau province on Sumatra island during February and March this year were either started outside concessions, or on land occupied by small - scale operators within concessions.

Rising global temperatures have also made glaciers — ice masses that currently occupy nearly 10 percent of the world's total land area — increasingly unstable.

In addition, the Czech lands were far more industrialized than Slovakia, particularly in the ethnically German area of the Bohemian and Moravian border regions (called the Sudetenland in German) that represented 22 % of the population, and had been forcibly occupied by the Czechs at the end of 1918 over the protests of the Sudeten Germans who wanted self - determination within the Austrian State.

Soon after, it was occupied by the Egyptians who controlled Canaan (a historical name for the Levant, which consists of the lands east of the Mediterranean corresponding with modern day Israel, Palestinian territories, Lebanon and western Syria) for the next 350 years, until the Philistines (from which the word «Palestine» is derived) captured the area in the 12th century BCE.

There's plenty to keep you occupied at the terminal, including lots of restaurants and bars, play areas, baby changing rooms, an exclusive lounge, car parking and even a vantage point where children can watch the planes landing and taking off.

The fact it was built a long time ago, when land prices were very low, allowed this resort to occupy a vast area and provide its guest with a feeling of comfort, peacefulness and space.

Beautifully situated on the edge of a cliff, Anantara Uluwatu occupies 1.7 hectare of ocean view land in the premium Uluwatu area.

The Top End occupies the huge square bump at the top of the Australian map, half of which is the vast area of Arnhem Land, owned by the country's traditional Aboriginal people.

Despite the fact that all beaches in Thailand are public land, you can discover tiny bits of coastal areas occupied by accommodation choices providing their guests with the ultimate in privacy and seclusion.

The Forbidden Land of Eureka is an expansive, unexplored area that brings a number of changes to the normal pillars of gameplay: Field Area - Style Gameplay: Up to 144 players may occupy a single instaarea that brings a number of changes to the normal pillars of gameplay: Field Area - Style Gameplay: Up to 144 players may occupy a single instaArea - Style Gameplay: Up to 144 players may occupy a single instance.

According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), forests occupied 13.1 million ha (38.7 % of land area) at the end of 2008, including 10.3 million ha of natural forests and 2.8 million ha of plantation forests.

These sites collectively occupy about one - quarter to one - third of the land area in each watershed.

For example, although the sample size has been very small, studies of radio - collared seals in the Bering and Chukchi Seas observed those seals rarely hauled out at all, on land or sea ice, even when occupying ice covered areas.

Although urban areas occupy less than 1 % of China's land mass, the majority of China's observing stations are situated in proximity to urban areas, and thus some of the recorded warming is undoubtedly the consequence of rapid urban development, particularly since the late 1970s.

There is no dispute that wind energy would occupy large land areas under the authorsí policy proposal.

Moving away from the tropics in both hemispheres, one encounters the subtropical zone of relatively low cloud coverage, occupied by decks of broken clouds over ocean and clear desert areas over land.

(2) Where a trailer is located in a trailer camp or elsewhere in a municipality and fees or charges are collected by the municipality for the trailer or for the land occupied by the trailer in a trailer camp in any year, the council of the municipality shall pay to the English - language public district school board, the district school area board or the secondary school board established under section 67 having jurisdiction in the area in which the trailer is located, 25 per cent of the fees or charges.

On further appeal, the Supreme Court of Canada agreed with Vickers that the land had been both continually occupied and defended for the exclusive use of the Tsilhqot» in and that the government's appeal had been based on the «erroneous thesis that only specific, intensively occupied areas can support Aboriginal title.»

Although Microsoft already occupies an office in Silicon Valley, it has decided to expand its reach in the area, by purchasing 65 acres of land in San Jose, which is considered the economic center of the valley.

Justice Wilcox found that in 1829 the claim area was occupied and used by «Aboriginal people who spoke dialects of a common language and who acknowledged and observed a common body of laws and customs».47 He accepted that what united and distinguished them from neighbouring groups was a «commonality of belief, language, custom and material culture».48 Though sub-groups or families exercised particular rights and responsibilities for particular areas to which they «belonged», those rights and responsibilities arose from a wider normative system that operated within the broader Noongar society.49 The rights of the sub-group were burdened by the entitlement of others to access land for various purposes.50

Another legislative tool directed at limiting extinguishment from historic tenures (other than freehold land or reserved land) is s47B of the NTA which excludes their extinguishing effect where the land is currently vacant Crown land and the native title claim group occupy the area.