Sentences with phrase «ocean over an island»

On the island, you can enjoy the sights of dolphins swimming in the ocean over an island - style breakfast.

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Kohl says that there will be enough supply to meet the demand over the next decade in Greater Vancouver, although Fraser Valley gravel sources on land will become depleted, necessitating the transport of gravel by ocean barge from Texada Island.

«You'd have to be a idiot to think that the Moorish Aborigines settled Australia, Papau New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Andaman Islands, and Various Islands throughout Indian Ocean but SOMEHOW THEY SKIPPED OVER THIS COUNTRY.»

Catsimatidis's local development projects include Ocean Dreams, a mixed - use project in Coney Island, with 400 condo units spread over three towers.

On the right are thick beds with fenestral porosity, or «beach bubbles,» showing that massive waves ran up over older dunes exposed in a roadcut on Suzy Turn Road along the Atlantic Ocean east side of Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands, BWI.

University of Washington oceanographers used clues from the Galapagos Islands — a dot in the middle of the Pacific Ocean — to trace El Niño patterns and seasonal tropical rains over the past 2,000 years.

They wondered if genetic code from the exact same frog species could have jumped eastward from a remote island across 150 miles of Indian Ocean — then over the whole of Sumatra — then across the Strait of Malacca into the Malaysian interior?

Scientists are debating whether the break in the cloud layer above the volcano is related to the eruption or simply the result of the normal way that ocean air dries as it moves over an island.

Now Genevieve Jones and colleagues at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, studying the Marion Island albatross colony in the Indian Ocean, have found that 18 per cent of chicks born over three years had an extra-pair sire (Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, DOI: 10.1007 / s00265 -012-1374-8).

Though small in size, the islands apparently exert considerable influence over a sizable stretch of the Pacific Ocean.

The 1982 Falklands War between Argentina and the United Kingdom over ownership of a group of small islands in the South Atlantic Ocean also had an unexpected ecological benefit.

The flying foxes on Pemba Island in the Indian Ocean were reduced to just a few individuals in the 1980s, but the population recovered to more than 20,000 over the course of 20 years of conservation efforts.

A songbird that easily fits in the palm of your hand still piles on enough fat each fall to fly nonstop over the ocean from Canada to the Caribbean islands.

The region also experienced the highest rates of sea - level rise over the world, indicating large increases in ocean heat content and leading to substantial impacts on small island states in the region.

The only total eclipse of the sun in 2008 will be visible on August 1 over a narrow but long swath of land, beginning in Canada and ending in China after traversing northern Greenland, the island of Novaya Zemlya in the Arctic Ocean, Siberia and western Mongolia.

But circumstantial evidence had suggested otherwise: The wasps somehow traveled hundreds of kilometers to colonize a formerly lifeless volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean called Anak Krakatoa, and they have been snarled in nets attached to a research airplane flying over open water in the Pacific.

Over three weeks, the MIT engineers, along with groups from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the Australian Center for Field Robotics, the University of Rhode Island, and elsewhere, tested several classes of AUVs, and their ability to work cooperatively to map the ocean environment.

«There's a perception that jellyfish numbers are exploding in the world's oceans,» says marine scientist Rob Condon of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab in Alabama, «but there's no real evidence for a global increase in jellyfish over the past two centuries.»

Editor's note: On January 20, 2013, an expedition called the Shackleton Epic will begin an attempt to be the first team to authentically re-create Sir Ernest Shackleton's voyage of survival crossing 800 nautical miles of the treacherous southern ocean, from Elephant Island to South Georgia, and the climb over it.

For example, on Heron Island Reef in the GBR, variations in pH and aragonite saturation state over one day were greater than the predicted changes in ocean chemistry globally by 2050.

The last Dodo bird died on the island of Mauritius (located about 1,200 miles off the southeast coast of Africa, in the Indian Ocean) over 300 years ago.

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That's a time when, Hansen says, differences in ocean temperatures led to the formation of giant waves that swept boulders weighing over a thousand tons high up on Caribbean islands.

With over 200 meters of ocean front, VIKASA Retreat offers an invigorating experience of refreshing island air, untouched nature, and attentive service.

You guys know I'm a Lilly lover for life and today's look is extra special because 1) the Aletta crop top and Georgetta maxi skirt are now available to shop at LillyPulitzer.com 2) these photos were taken at the beautiful One & Only Ocean Club on Paradise Island in the Bahamas, and 3) today I'm taking over the @LillyPulitzer Instagram where I'll be sharing my favorite Lilly looks from my girl's trip.

My first impressions of Gran Canaria: Friendly crowds, perfect balance between sun and ocean breeze, plenty of undiscovered places all over the island.

It is the attempt to penetrate The Void that brought us Alex Haley's Roots, that draws thousands of African Americans across the ocean to visit West Africa every year, that left me crumpled on the rocks outside the Door of No Return at Gorée Island's slave house as I stared out over a horizon that my ancestors might have traversed once and forever.

Doubling as an effective romance, Zemeckis story of Hanks's FedEx worker Chuck Noland becoming stranded on a deserted Pacific Ocean island after a plane crash, driven to survive by the thought of returning to his girlfriend Kelly (played by Helen Hunt) is one of the director's most restrained (even the music cues by Alan Silvestri don't start till over an hour into the film) and in - command pieces of work that sees the esteemed filmmaker largely hold back on artistic flashes and instead focusing on his leading man Hanks working his magic as the determined Chuck.

This 1982 example's odd aesthetic is as unmistakable today as it was over four decades ago, but the 928's futuristic design wasn't just meant to wow onlookers, though it does that quite well — designer Wolfgang Möbius Möbius» masterpiece garnered stare - downs from countless bystanders and plenty of camera phones flew up as we cruised the ocean front boulevards of the Westhampton portion of Long Island, New York.

Ocean State Libraries serves over 50 library systems in Rhode Island.

For two hundred years, fleets of treasure galleons stuffed with silver and gold and emeralds had plied the Caribbean Sea, crisscrossed it every which way, from Key West down to Cartagena, from the Yucatán over to the Windward Islands, and every so often, one of those unpredictable West Indian cyclones would come spinning across the Caribbean and slam half the fleet onto shallow reefs, which ripped open the hulls and spewed that treasure all over the ocean floor.

Make your way out to «The End» of the Island with your dog in tow and enjoy strolling the over 2,000 feet of ocean beach.

The official citation pays tribute to the island's «exceptional natural beauty» and refers to «over 250 km of sandy beaches with long, uninterrupted sweeps of ocean beach, with more than 40 km of strikingly coloured sand cliffs, as well as spectacular dune blowouts and ocean surf beaches; tall rainforests growing on low nutrient sands; perched dune lakes including both clear «white water» lakes and dark «black water» lakes; banksia woodlands, heath, patterned swampy fens and sheltered mangrove areas in a spectacular «mosaic landscape.»

Fraser Island has been formed over hundreds of thousands of years as winds, waves and ocean currents have carried sands from the far south - east of Australia, and from as far away as Antarctica (but before Australian and Antarctica split from each other), out to the continental shelf, and in towards the land again in a zigzag pattern, to form a string of sand islands along the Queensland coast.

One female elephant seal off of Vancouver Island was measured at an astonishing depth of 5,788 feet — well over one mile beneath the ocean's surface!

Warm days invite you to choose between reading or napping under the palm trees and umbrellas, taking a dip in the warm ocean or heated pool or walking over to the farmer's market to select fresh island foods.

Say «I do» on Fraser Island, with a breathtaking ocean backdrop, beautiful bush setting, or Kingfisher Bay Resort venue, and toast to the future as the sun sets over the western beach.

If you get tired of the ocean you can head up the hill to Wat Leu, one of the local Pagodas, which has a great view over Sihanoukville and the nearby islands, or maybe take a trip out to the Chab Chhay, a nearby waterfall.

The country, a collection of over 300 islands in the southwest part of the Pacific Ocean, is a place with great beaches but also a significant history, an interesting political life and a vital culture.

During the day you can lounge on the terrace looking out over island's most inspiring view or take a dip in the pool which overhangs the ocean below, all while enjoying your favorite music through the outdoor speakers.

Waters Edge Resort on the Strand is your perfect Townsville getaway, with clean breezy ocean view apartments, Waters Edge looks out over the Strand, Magnetic Island and Cleveland Bay and is only meters from the Beach.

The beautiful islands of the Maldives is made up of 26 coral atolls with over 1,192 islands spread out in the Indian Ocean.

The Indonesian archipelago is made up of over 17,000 islands scattered across 3,000 miles of ocean between Asia and Australia.

Finally, I wrap up the day by heading to the beach with a ukulele to have a jam session with a local Maui resident and ukulele player, where we jam out to some Bob Marley as the sun set over the Pacific Ocean, framed by the nearby islands of Moloka'i and Lana'i.

Blessed with over 230 miles of exquisite white sand beaches, oceans of breathtaking turquoise waters, magnificent coral reefs, and enchanting island people.

However, on the North coast of the island, you'll find the dramatically huge and grand Na Pali coastline, a fantastic formation of towering cliffs looming over the ocean that is truly a wonder to see.

WELCOME TO THE (OCEAN) CLUB When hotelier Sol Kerzner took over the ailing Resorts International complex on Paradise Island in the Bahamas, he focused his efforts on creating the mega-resort Atlantis.

Wake up very early and see the spectacular sunrise rise over the ocean from the east and then be back on the beach near sunset to witness the end of another tropical day in paradise as the sun sets over the islands and ocean to the west.

Take some time to explore the island and you will find The Reef Restaurant and a couple of beachfront bars where you can enjoy some local cuisine while you watch the sun set over the ocean.

We have a great selection of more luxurious 5 star style apartments and resorts and of course more expensive penthouse style apartments with private swimming pools, spas and barbeque decks, swim up room s that are very popular and penthouse apartments that offer convenience to all of the restaurants in the village and of course great views over the ocean out to Double Island and Scout Hat Island.