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Pronounced «Koh Lee - pay,» tiny Koh Lipe is the perfect definition of remote island for many people.

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Penn's next step is to return to the Pacific to develop a zero - waste system for a line of remote islands, and she's using Apple products to do it.

UAF has worked extensively with both institutional and commercial partners in Alaska and in recent years, using drones to monitor sea lion populations in the Aleutian Islands, conduct ice flow and environmental surveying missions for NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, inspect pipelines for oil and gas giant BP and assist a Russian tanker during a dangerous late - season fuel delivery to the remote Alaskan outpost of Nome.

We made our first purchase of 320 water purification units on Nov. 20th, and our partner, the Puerto Rico Brain Trust for Tropical Disease Research and Prevention, is overseeing the distribution and educational programming in remote cities on the island.

Greece's second important duty is to improve the quality of life for citizens of remote islands, the premier said.

I was intrigued by the particularities of their lives - the trunks of books carried by boat onto remote islands, the tiny incestuous circle of fellow anthropologists, the divorcing from «traditional» society, and the drive for notoriety and that one big discovery.

She had been raised listening to family members retelling amazing tales of pioneering life living on a remote island for 30 years.

Just seen an advert on the Sky News website, «remote island seeks police inspector» straight away I thought the perfect job for Wenger, can be a Dictator on he's own little island in the middle of the Pacific.

I reached for the remote — it was marooned on the distant island of an ottoman — but my index finger fell an inch short.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Borough President James Oddo enlisted the help of a fast ferry service and conducted test runs to show that service is a viable option for more remote locations on Staten Island, not just in Stapleton, and he is pushing the city to study the opISLAND, N.Y. — Borough President James Oddo enlisted the help of a fast ferry service and conducted test runs to show that service is a viable option for more remote locations on Staten Island, not just in Stapleton, and he is pushing the city to study the opIsland, not just in Stapleton, and he is pushing the city to study the options.

SHEEP living on a remote island off the coast of Scotland have been shrinking for 20 years.

You need to be fit to keep up with him on the hills of the McGill University neighborhood in Montreal, let alone on the remote islands of the Canadian Arctic where he searches for fossils in summer fieldwork.

Published in the journal Nature this week, the group challenges reports that these inhabitants of remote Flores island co-existed with modern humans for tens of thousands of years.

Plans were afoot to build an airport on the remote island, famous for its mysterious sculptures of enormous heads, and the group wanted to study the people, flora and fauna while they remained largely untouched by modernity.

Using a single satellite image collected at UM's Center for Southeastern Tropical Remote Sensing (CSTARS), the research team was able to determine that a roughly 60 - meter high internal wave was traveling at a speed of three miles per hour (1.4 meters per second) near Dongsha Island in the South China Sea.

The group, part of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, is part of an ongoing project to develop evacuation plans and shelters for communities along Sumatra's remote southwestern coast after a devastating 9.1 magnitude earthquake hit the island in 2004.

Turtles nest unbothered on the remote beaches of the southern Line Islands, whereas in most other places they are killed for meat and their eggs are collected.

Oppel and his colleagues set up sound recorders on a remote island in the North Atlantic for two years to «count» the number of nesting birds by recording their calls at night.

Instead, microgrids provide permanent, self - sufficient islands of electricity that can produce up to 2 megawatts of electricity for remote communities.

Remote island nations in the Pacific and Indian Oceans have for many years been considered extremely vulnerable to the effects of climate change and, in particular, rising sea levels.

These days, you can find Koch in Morotai, a remote island in Eastern Indonesia, where she spends her days teaching students of all ages how to surf, take photos and video that document their days, and speak English so they're better prepared for the island's burgeoning tourism market.

She had been raised listening to family members retelling amazing tales of pioneering life living on a remote island for 30 years.

The remote and little - known Australian island of Tasmania proved to be perfect coastline for us to explore by kayak

Watching his performance for the excited villagers who are celebrating the arrival of electricity on their remote island, Alice is awestruck by his show and believes his tricks are real magic.

The lives of a high profile couple, a famous rock star and a filmmaker (Tilda Swinton and Matthias Schoenaerts), vacationing and recovering on the idyllic sun - drenched and remote Italian island of Pantelleria are disrupted by the unexpected visit of an old friend and his daughter (Ralph Fiennes and Dakota Johnson)- creating a whirlwind of jealousy, passion and, ultimately, danger for everyone involved.

More than a century later, thanks to generous tax breaks, picturesque locations and abundant English - speaking crews, Ireland is still a popular destination for American studios — the country's remote Skellig islands supplied the dramatic location for one of the most memorable...

Another doc chronicling a social experiment of sorts is «Splinters,» which follows the introduction of surfboarding into an island culture of Papua New Guinea, which is not really ready for the Western transformation the sport of surfing is going to bring to their remote seaside village of Vanimo.

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He has applied for a job as a lighthouse keeper on a remote island off the coast of Western Australia.

But meanwhile the mangled bodies of young girls have been turning up in remote corners of the island: the police are searching for a serial killer, and when suspicions fall on Pascal, Moll faces a difficult choice.

Watch the trailer for the King Kong origins story, Kong: Skull Island in which an intrepid group of explorers discover a remote Pacific island and realise too late that they aren't its only inhabIsland in which an intrepid group of explorers discover a remote Pacific island and realise too late that they aren't its only inhabisland and realise too late that they aren't its only inhabitants

The three men and dozens of other bird enthusiasts scour the continent for exotic sightings, springing to action for severe storm fallout and making pilgrimage out to Alaska's remote Attu Island.

Coming out of the most remote district (No. 12) is super bow hunter Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence, Oscar - nominated for «Winter's Bone») and baker's apprentice Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson, «Journey 2: Mysterious Island»).

A Bigger Splash (R for profanity, graphic sexuality, frontal nudity and brief drug use) Erotic thriller, loosely based on La Piscine (1969), revolving around a rock icon (Tilda Swinton) whose vacation with her boyfriend (Matthias Schoenaerts) on a remote Italian island is disrupted by the arrival of an old friend (Ralph Fiennes) with his daughter (Dakota Johnson) in tow.

He retreats to a remote lobster fishing village on the island of Monhegan — where Mrazek himself lives and writes for half of each year — and there reassesses his life with the help of the down - to - earth town librarian (Elizabeth Marvel).

The idea that drives Jason is to buy a remote island in the Pacific, where he and his companions henceforth will be able to live the life of Riley — patently over the top as an ambition, and a fit subject, perhaps, for a satire on human pretensions.

Genesis 2.0 / Switzerland, Directors: Christian Frei, Maxim Arbugaev (Yakut / Buryat), Producer: Christian Frei — On the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, hunters search for tusks of extinct mammoths.

Set to start shooting in Cleveland on February 16, WAKE tells the story of Red Forrester (Willis), a sociopath with no fear, who returns to his childhood home on a remote island for his brother's wake.

No one will take this film - about 10 hardened killers brought to a remote island to slaughter one another for an audience on the Internet - for a great work of art, but there's a place for this kind of B movie and for performers like wrestler Steve Austin, a big slab of an American trying to fight his way out of hell.

On the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, hunters search for tusks of extinct mammoths.

In «A Bigger Splash,» the lives of a high profile couple, a famous rock star and a filmmaker (Schoenaerts and Swinton), vacationing and recovering on the idyllic sun - drenched and remote Italian island of Pantelleria are disrupted by the unexpected visit of an old friend and his daughter (Fiennes and Johnson)-- creating a whirlwind of jealousy, passion and ultimate danger for everyone involved.

But certainly, he does not lack for the extraordinary: dining with the Queen of Tonga in a leper colony; making his way across tropical Africa — and two civil wars — in a forty - four - year - old flying boat; delivering a new church bell to a remote Oceanian island.

Rooted in the remote Queen Charlotte Islands of British Columbia, a golden spruce stood for more than 300 years, capturing the hearts, imaginations and scientific curiosity of local tribes, explorers and naturalists.

Lucy Symons, Reporter for Green Traveller, talks to Peter about her latest adventures, including the remote island of St. Helena, which takes days to reach by a Royal Mail Ship and where produce is delivered once a month.

For a remote site that offers some great exploration, you will find the rocky Shark Island in the middle of the ocean just north of Koh Sdach.

There are only 45 people who live on this northernmost and most remote island in Scotland's Orkney archipelago, famed for its population of seaweed - eating sheep.

A small group of us had just spent a fruitless week searching for waves in a remote corner of the Mentawai Islands, that exquisite archipelago in Indonesia that all surfers fantasize about.

For many travelers, the Galápagos Islands — a remote archipelago 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador — are at the top of the bucket list.

Looming in front of us was one of the island chain's biggest island, Prince of Wales Island, home to a smattering of Native American villages, remote logging outposts, more black bears than there are humans, and a former salmon cannery now turned Alaska's premier fishing resort, Waterfall Resort Alaska, my home for the next fourisland chain's biggest island, Prince of Wales Island, home to a smattering of Native American villages, remote logging outposts, more black bears than there are humans, and a former salmon cannery now turned Alaska's premier fishing resort, Waterfall Resort Alaska, my home for the next fourisland, Prince of Wales Island, home to a smattering of Native American villages, remote logging outposts, more black bears than there are humans, and a former salmon cannery now turned Alaska's premier fishing resort, Waterfall Resort Alaska, my home for the next fourIsland, home to a smattering of Native American villages, remote logging outposts, more black bears than there are humans, and a former salmon cannery now turned Alaska's premier fishing resort, Waterfall Resort Alaska, my home for the next four days.

For a truly remote getaway full of backpacking and breathtaking scenery, take a backcountry trip to Santa Cruz Island's Del Norte Campground.