Sentences with phrase «of square miles of ocean»

Approximately 100,000 barrels (16,000 m3) of oil surged out of a huge undersea break, fouling hundreds of square miles of ocean and all the coastline from Ventura to Goleta, as well north facing beaches on the Channel Islands.

Though scattered across thousands of square miles of ocean, dive sites in the Maldives fall into three general categories, based on structure: Individual islands within an atoll are generally surrounded by a reef that creates a sheltered lagoon.

UNITED NATIONS — The biggest land grab since colonial times is accelerating as nations scramble to claim writ over hundreds of thousands of square miles of ocean floor, much of it believed to be rich in natural resources.

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In California, oil companies are pressing for further exploration of the massive Monterey Shale, a 1,750 - square - mile area extending from the agricultural Central Valley to the Pacific Ocean that federal energy officials say could ultimately comprise two - thirds of the nation's shale oil reserves.

The search for the Malaysian jet has been focused on a 7.3 - million - square - mile area in the southern Indian Ocean off the western coast of Australia.

Roughly 4 million acres of land and several million square miles of ocean.

Humanity needs to do the world a favor and dig a hole the size of Lake Eerie for a thousand square miles and flood the entire region with the ocean.

Since The Bahamas is comprised of 700 individual islands and cays with a total land area of about 5,400 square miles scattered across 100,000 square miles of ocean, it is natural that fish and seafood are very important in the cuisine.

Imagine: Somewhere in the vast Pacific Ocean is eight square miles of volcanic ash where nearly 29,000 lives ended in just 36 days.

Performance upgrades include new buoyancy foam that can withstand the 9,552 pounds per square inch of pressure that exists four miles down — giving scientists access to 98 percent of the ocean.

The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands National Monument spans 140,000 square miles of ocean, island, and reef.

The report adds that every square mile of ocean is home to nearly 50,000 pieces of litter, much of which tends to harm or kill wildlife that either ingests the plastic or gets trapped in discarded netting, which is just as common in the Northern Gyre as discarded soda bottles.

These particles can interact with water, emitting a shudder of light, albeit under such rare circumstances that just a few of them strike each square mile of ocean each year.

Slabs continued to calve and break up throughout the next 10 days; by March 8 the Wilkins ice shelf, comprising some 5,000 square miles of floating ice off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, had lost 160 square miles of ice to the Pacific Ocean.

All told, it covered 502,000 square miles (1.3 million square kilometers) less ocean than even the year before — a loss equal to an area the size of California and Montana combined.

In June 2006, the Bush administration created the Papahnaumokukea Marine National Monument, a 1,200 - mile - long, 140,000 - square - mile stretch of open ocean northwest of Honolulu.

Some experiments have been done, including one in the Antarctic Ocean in 2004 when Smetacek and his colleagues dropped 5 metric tons of iron sulfate and saw a 65 - square - mile bloom.

One under Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean is thought to have triggered massive volcanism, spewing lava across 580,000 square miles (1.5 million square km) at the Deccan Plateau region of what is now India about 65 million years ago, coinciding with the end of the Age of Dinosaurs.

The Southern Hemisphere's unrelenting winds and frigid air froze ocean water into 7.6 million square miles (19.7 million square kilometers) of Antarctic sea ice this winter, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC).

On top of that, plastic bags are the second most common ocean waste (after cigarette butts) and they harm thousands of species of ocean wildlife each year (with an estimated 40,000 + pieces of plastic floating in each square mile of the ocean!).

However, there's a significant portion of the map being just ocean so if we take away the parts that are only water, the new size for Grand Theft Auto 5 is only 18.84 miles squared.

We've come all the way to the Big Island of Hawaii (4038 square miles) to stare into the ocean's depths at dawn and ride at dusk to the top of Mauna Kea (13,796 feet), lifted up into a heaven packed with more stars than we've ever seen in our lives.

The Marshall Islands, a group of atolls in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, has legally banned all shark fishing in their waters — all 768,547 square miles of them — making it the largest shark sanctuary in the world.

The still - booming city of Los Angeles covers one thousand square miles and a variety of landscapes from desert to ocean to mountains.

Located in the exclusive gated community of Punta Cana Resort in the Dominican Republic, this setting consists of a twenty - six square mile paradise blessed with a temperate year round climate and soft ocean breezes.

The Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary (Sanctuary) consists of an area of approximately 1,110 square nautical miles (nmi) of coastal and ocean waters, and the submerged lands thereunder, off the southern coast of California.

An archipelago of more than 700 sun - drenched islands stretching across 100,000 square miles of breathtaking turquoise ocean, The Bahamas is known for its mild weather, crystalline waters and powder - soft white sand beaches.

Christmas Island is a small island territory of Australia, covering 135 square miles (350 sq. km) in the Indian Ocean.

Comprised of 118 islands and atolls in five archipelagos, French Polynesia (commonly called «Tahiti,» collectively) is spread over two million square miles in the South Pacific Ocean.

Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary encompasses 1,470 square miles of the ocean environment surrounding five of the eight California Channel Islands — Anacapa, Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, San Miguel and Santa Barbara..

This exclusive setting consists of a twenty - six square mile paradise blessed with a temperate year round climate and soft ocean breezes.

Spanning 15.8 square miles from Santa Monica's Ocean Avenue to Grand Avenue in Downtown LA, Wilshire Boulevard offers a unique mix of boutiques and stores along with many renowned restaurants.

Encompassing 1,470 square miles of ocean waters, the boundaries of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary extend from the mean high water line to approximately six nautical miles offshore from San Miguel, Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz, Anacapa and Santa Barbara Islands.

It encompasses approximately 1,470 square miles (or 1,110 square nautical miles) of ocean waters surrounding Anacapa, Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, San Miguel and Santa Barbara Islands, extending from mean high tide to six nautical miles offshore around each of these five islands.

Encompassing over 455 square kilometers (176 square miles) of the Indian Ocean, the 100 or so tiny islands boast some of the world's best spas, beaches, and resorts, making it the ideal destination for a rejuvenating retreat from reality.

The island, a protected National Park Reserve of Canada, is a 13 square mile sliver of an isolated sandbar 109 miles southeast of Nova Scotia in the Atlantic Ocean.

Artist Statement on DEEPHORIZON: «The supreme discipline of art — oil painting — is back with a vengeance — in the form of an oil painting on a 80.000 square miles ocean canvas with 32 million litres of oil — a unique piece of art... It has been 13 days since a BP oil and gas exploration well blew out, setting fire to the drilling rig, which sank, killing 11 people.

Artist Statement The Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument is a UNESCO World Heritage listed U.S. National Monument encompassing 582,578 square miles of ocean waters, including ten islands and atolls of the...

If the whole earth, including the Sahara, the Himalayan Mountain peaks, Greenland, Antarctica and every square mile of the ocean bottom, to the deepest abyss, were as packed as Manhattan at noon, surely you would agree that no way to support such a population (let alone make it comfortable) was conceivable.

Today, the National Snow and Ice Data Center announced that the annual summer retreat of Arctic Ocean sea ice had reached a new low for the 33 - year satellite era of careful monitoring (1.58 million square miles, or 4.1 million square kilometers), and there is still another week or two of melting before the typical summer ice minimum occurs.

Imagine the stink we would all raise if another nation tried to take even one inch of our coastline away from us — and yet here is a slow taking of countless square miles from our shores by a carbon - driven ocean - turned - invader.

The experiment involved «fertilising» a 300 - square - kilometre (115 - sqare - mile) area of ocean inside the core of an eddy — an immense rotating column of water — with six tonnes of dissolved iron.

It spread across 4.63 million square miles of the Arctic Ocean, Hudson Bay and adjacent areas of the North Atlantic — an area 224,000 square miles smaller than the previous low record for the month set in 2004.

Center officials say the sea ice probably reached its maximum extent on March 7th, when it covered about 5 - and - a-half-million square miles of the Arctic Ocean, including portions of the Bering Sea that lie south of the Arctic Circle.

The range of ocean remaining frozen over the northern polar region reached its minimum extent for 2009 on September 12, when it covered 1.97 million square miles (5.1 million square km), and now appears to be growing again as the Arctic starts its annual cool - down, the National Snow and Ice Data Center reported.

On July 16, 2015, five nations (United States of America, Russia, Canada, Norway, Denmark / Greenland) signed a declaration committing to keep their fishing vessels out of a 1.1 million square mile zone in the central Arctic Ocean near the North Pole.

Thousands of square miles of formerly living things are floated away to the Pacific Ocean and giant Canadian Rocky erratic boulders are rafted to the southern Willamette Valley of Oregon where they become evidence that nature doesn't care for stagnation.

With its Smart from the Start leasing program, the federal government's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management hopes to avoid that controversy: the 2,400 square miles set to be auctioned off for wind development later in 2012 are located at least 10 miles from shore, on the Outer Continental Shelf off the East Coast.

On September 16, 2012, the extent of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean dropped to 3.41 million square kilometers (1.32 million square miles).

A few feet thick, sea ice covers one million square miles of ocean in summer and grows to six million square miles in winter, doubling the size of the continent.