Sentences with phrase «on a remote island of»

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.

They end up on a remote island of no sustainable resources and are driven to desperate measures when they take their ships out in hopes of finding a water rescue.

Originating on remote islands of arctic Norway, the dog was used to wrestle and retrieve live puffin birds from the crevices of steep vertical cliffs.

Experience the acclaimed Jacobite Steam Train alongside life on the remote Island of Mull.

Situated on the remote island of Gili Meno, NW Lombok, Indonesia.

Created by Laurance Rockefeller in 1955, Caneel Bay is an exclusive property located on the remote island of St. John, in the heart of the United States Virgin Islands.

For many years, I have set my eyes on the remote island of Cuyo, borne out of curiosity and fascination to this sprinkling of terra firma, located at the northern edge of the Sulu Sea basin between north Palawan in the east and Panay in the west.

In 1978 he left New York to settle on the remote island of Vinalhaven off the coast of Maine.

13 February: Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) have launched renewable energy projects on the remote island of Yap.

The team analysed the first eight months of measurements from the new Cape Verde Atmospheric Observatory on the remote island of São Vicente in the tropical Atlantic.

The Hoffmeister has just purchased a property on the remote island of Gili Meno, a place that truly blurs the lines between fantasy and reality.

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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.

Ted is a Catholic priest on a remote island off the coast of Ireland, and he deals with small but hilarious issues in his parish.

Marriage is neither a Disney movie, nor an episode of The Bachelor with dates in helicopters on remote jungle islands.

We are on a desert island, in a town at the edge of a crumbling empire, at an obscure farm in the remote heart of the country, or in the middle of a war.

Taking a bite into one of these bars is like going on vacation to a beautiful remote island.

«The versatility and efficiency of our clarifier product has been demonstrated in a number of applications undertaken recently in partnership with Smith and Loveless, including an installation on a remote island, where two (11.

Last summer we went on a cruise to the Caribbean Islands, and when our ship stopped in St. Lucia, we took a catamaran to a remote part of the island as part of a shore excursion.

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.

On March 28 the remote Indian Ocean island of Nias was devastated by an earthquake.

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

The show is about a group of plane crash survivors stranded on a remote island.

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According to research on telecommuting, Long Island lags the rest of the country in remote office working.

A new forensic analysis of bones found on a remote Pacific island 80 years ago strongly suggests they belonged to Amelia Earhart, NPR reports.

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

Years later, she heard large corals were still alive near Wolf Island in the remote northern part of the Galápagos archipelago, so in 2010 she followed up on the tip with a team that included co-authors Tudhope and Thompson, then a UA graduate student.

I had just started my Ph.D. studying invasive species on a remote oceanic island, where I would be spending most of the next 3 years bashing through rainforest to count invertebrates.

Red deer (Cervus elaphus, shown) that once lived on remote Scottish islands may have been introduced from distant sites by Stone Age seafarers thousands of years ago.

«There's dogma in the literature — which is more oriented toward the cell biology of aging — that wild animals don't actually senesce,» says Daniel Nussey, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Edinburgh who studies aging in Soay sheep on a remote Scottish island.

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.

The Canadian Arctic In 2004 on a remote island in the Arctic wilderness, American scientists uncovered the remains of a fossil fish, Tiktaalik roseae, that first crawled on land about 375 million years ago.

The research found that sand fleas from the remote British Overseas Territory of Ascension Island change their colour to match the beaches they wash up on, which vary widely in colour and brightness from black to light yellow.

Some of her species are «just beginning to flower» in chilly Edinburgh, and she'll be able to do some «more controlled experiments» than were possible on some of the world's most remote islands.

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.

A scientific expedition in Panama in the early 2000s, also led by WHOI scientists, led to the construction of the «Liquid Jungle Lab» on a remote island to enhance oceanographic research.

Two thousand years ago a storm drove a Roman ship against a sheer rock wall on the north side of the remote Greek island of Antikythera.

New measurements will be needed within the young parts of the plate to confirm this study's predictions, either on very remote islands or through sensors on the ocean floor.»

Wolves are the only predators of moose on the remote island national park in northwestern Lake Superior.

This rare species lives only on two tiny islands — Waigeo and Batanta — in the Raja Ampat chain, a remote collection of islands off West Papua, an Indonesian province of New Guinea.

Bone measurement analysis indicates that the remains found on a remote island in the South Pacific were likely those of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, according to a UT researcher.

Written by a collective of academics, including Dr Alice Samson (University of Leicester) and Dr Jago Cooper (British Museum), the paper is the result of three - years of research from 2013 to 2016, on the currently uninhabited and remote Mona Island in the Caribbean.

Seabirds, which reflect the health of their marine ecosystems, often build their nests in inaccessible areas — wedged into vertical cliffs or on remote islands battered by intense waves.

WHILE Russia is encouraging people to settIe on the remote and foggy Kuril Islands, a team of American biologists is aiming to get there first — to survey the plant and animal life of the islands before a development boom takeIslands, a team of American biologists is aiming to get there first — to survey the plant and animal life of the islands before a development boom takeislands before a development boom takes hold.

The findings also lend support to claims that the small brain of the human ancestor Homo floresiensis, whose 18,000 - year - old skull was discovered on a remote Indonesian island in 2003, isn't as remarkable as it might seem.

«Those cliffs of volcanic ash are pretty unstable,» said remote sensing specialist and NASA Goddard co-author Dan Slayback of the receding cliffs on the southern side of the island.

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.

Researchers from a set of international universities are working together to save an invaluable scientific resource that was badly damaged in Hurricane Maria — a population of rhesus monkeys living on a remote island — and the staff and facilities that support them.

The galaxies are the smallest, faintest, and most numerous galaxies ever seen in the remote universe, and were captured by Hubble deep exposures taken in ultraviolet light, and confirmed using the mighty Keck I telescope on the summit of Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii.