Sentences with phrase «of subantarctic»
The subduction of Subantarctic Mode Water (SAMW) moves heat into the upper ocean.
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She told me that her wish list travels were Jordan and Iran, until I came to stay with her and blindsided her with the idea of the Subantarctic Islands!
On this cruise aboard Le Lapérouse, PONANT invites you to discover the primitive beauty of the Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand.
Not exact matches
Before it was sliced open by a shipping canal in 1914, the Isthmus of Panama united a land mass stretching from the Arctic Circle to subantarctic southern Patagonia.
For the first time, the researchers have carried out a ten - year population study of two seabird species: brown skuas living in the Kerguelen Islands (Subantarctic) and south polar skuas living in Adélie Land (Antarctica).
When the rabbits were put on Enderby Island, it was an uninhabited subantarctic island of the Auckland Islands, and they were to serve as food for castaways.
Mammals found on the island include: subantarctic fur seals, Antarctic fur seals, New Zealand fur seals and southern elephant seals — over 80,000 individuals of this species.
A subantarctic archipelago is making «huge news»: The New Zealand Herald reports there are officially no more mice on the country's Antipodes Islands, which once housed up to 200,000 of the rodents.
Long recognised for their rich biodiversity, the Subantarctic islands lying to the south of New Zealand are World Heritage sites, afforded the highest conservation status and protection by both the Australian and New Zealand governments.
They lie in the cool temperate or Subantarctic zone and are home to some of the most abundant and diverse wildlife on the planet.
Woehler, E.J. (1993) The distribution and abundance of Antarctic and Subantarctic penguins.
For example, with Étienne Berthier, of the Laboratoire d'Études en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales in Toulouse, I am writing a chapter on the Subantarctic for a book about GLIMS, the Global Land Ice Measurements from Space initiative.
One of these areas is the Subantarctic islands, scattered across the Southern Ocean and holding about 8,000 km2 of glacier ice in all.
use the subantarctic islands as thermometers of climatic change by using trees, peats and lakes to explore the past
To better understand what effect recent changes in the winds are having across the Southern Ocean, the first leg of the expedition was dedicated to working across the magnificent New Zealand subantarctic islands Campbell, Auckland and the Snares.
produce the first underwater surveys of life in the subantarctic islands and Commonwealth Bay
The little explored subantarctic islands in the Southern Ocean have experienced some of the most significant warming.
These findings suggest that there are two sources of low ∆ 14C waters that upwell at the Galapagos, Subantarctic Mode Water and shallow overturning water from the subpolar North Pacific.