Sentences with phrase «on island of»

Their diet is very healthy and it shows up on their skin too; on the island of Kitava, not only is acne far less common than in the West, but it is almost completely unheard of.

Inspired by a question put to him on the island of Papua New Guinea more than thirty years ago, Diamond embarks on a world - wide quest to understand the roots of global inequality

A 2013 Greek study found that in the two years following an earthquake on the island of Zakynthos, the rate of male births declined significantly.

While filming a TV series on the island of Ibiza, her hands were so raw that the camera crew had to shoot around them, she told the Daily Mail.

This is an aerial view of the Soufriere Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat in the Lesser Antilles.

The Lindau Science Trail consists of a total of 21 knowledge pylons, 15 of which can be discovered on the island of Lindau.

This map shows the locations of the different knowledge pylons which can now be discovered on the island of Lindau.

Ibu Maryanti will presented her paper, OFI s Holistic Environmental Enrichment Program, describing their enrichment program for over 330 orangutans in a rehabilitation center on the island of Borneo at the 10th ICEE in Portland, Oregon.

Subaru is an optical - infrared telescope at the 4,200 m summit of Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.

He points to enormous 1,000 - ton boulders tossed by rising seas and powerful waves on the island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas as illustrative of the power of such superstorms.

«Our hope is that one day we will be able to build an instrument for the Thirty Meter Telescope planned for Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii or La Palma,» says Mazin.

When it received the trigger from Swift, the robotic Liverpool Telescope on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands automatically swung to observe the burst.

As hurricanes threaten the Aloha State, astronomers working at W. M. Keck Observatory on the island of Hawaii were surprised by... Read more»

11 states and 2 federal territories (Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya) form Peninsular Malaysia which is separated by the South China Sea from East Malaysia which includes the 2 states (Sabah and Sarawak on the island of Borneo) and a third federal territory, the island of Labuan.

Activists consider the construction of a giant telescope on the island of Hawaii to be a desecration of their sacred land.

The two, 10 - meter optical / infrared telescopes near the summit of Mauna Kea on the Island of Hawaii feature a suite of advanced instruments including imagers, multi-object spectrographs, high - resolution spectrographs, integral - field spectroscopy and world - leading laser guide star adaptive optics systems.

H. floresiensis lived on the island of Flores, however, so isolation at that location could help to explain how it remained a distinct species of human.

The fossils were discovered in a cave on the island of Flores in Indonesia, southeast of Java, in 2003.

The findings may finally resolve a debate that has raged in anthropological circles ever since the three - and - a-half-feet tall Homo floresiensis was discovered in 2003 on the island of Flores, where they are thought to have hunted small elephants and large rodents as recently as 54,000 years ago.

For two days at the end of June EAO / JCMT hosted its first «Maunakea Wonders Teacher Workshop» primarily aimed at newly qualified teachers here on the island of Hawai'i.

The research team, led by Gregory Asner of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology, used innovative remote sensing technology on aircraft to survey the impact of invasives on more than 220,000 hectares (850 square miles) of rain forest on the island of Hawaii.

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.

Homo floresiensis, also known as «Hobbit Humans,» lived on the island of Flores in Indonesia.

However, the discovery of the planet was confirmed with measurements collected by the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo, an Italian telescope located on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands.

A British army surgeon, Sir David Bruce, discovered Brucella melitensis on the island of Malta in 1887.

The scientists used the 2.5 - meter Nordic Optical Telescope on the island of La Palma in Spain to discover the exoplanet, dubbed «55 Cancri e.» The exoplanet's star, called «55 Cancri,» is only 40 light - years away from Earth, and is visible to the naked eye, the researchers said in a study, set to be published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Boulders deposited by an ancient glacier that once covered the summit of Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii are providing clues to past climate changes on Earth.

Since then, however, the hobbit team has found fragments from nine different people on the island of Flores, leading them to believe even more strongly in their theory of insular dwarfism.

Gray rubble on the flanks of Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii lie in contrast to the red volcanic rock behind them, and were deposited by a glacier that disappeared thousands of years ago.

The two, 10 - meter optical / infrared telescopes near the summit of Mauna Kea on the Island of Hawaii feature a suite of advanced instruments including imagers, multi-object spectrographs, high - resolution spectrographs, integral - field spectrographs and world - leading laser guide star adaptive optics systems.

Additionally, the extremely high resolution chromospheric imaging capability of the Swedish Vacuum Solar Telescope on the island of La Palma, Spain, led to the discovery that dark voids seen in the moss were actually cooler chromospheric gasses interacting with the moss.

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.

The twin 10 - meter optical / infrared telescopes located on the summit of Mauna Kea on the Island of Hawaii, feature a world - leading suite of advanced instruments including imagers, multi-object spectrographs, high - resolution spectrographs, integral - field spectroscopy and a laser guide star adaptive optics system.

The video was shot on the island of Hawaii, and features a recently - weaned monk seal pup, named Manu`iwa by locals.

The two, 10 - meter optical / infrared telescopes near the summit of Mauna Kea on the Island of Hawaii feature a suite of advanced instruments including imagers, multi-object spectrographs, high - resolution spectrographs, integral - field spectographs and world - leading laser guide star adaptive optics systems.

The 2014 Golden Helix Summer School was organized in September 15 - 19, 2014 on the island of Aegina (Greece) with the theme focused on Pharmacogenomics and Genomic Medicine.

The meeting will be held from 24 — 29 June 2018 on the island of Lindau, situated on Lake Constance in south Germany.

The two, 10 - meter optical / infrared telescopes on the summit of Mauna Kea on the Island of Hawaii feature a suite of advanced instruments including imagers, multi-object spectrographs, high - resolution spectrographs, integral - field spectrometer and world - leading laser guide star adaptive optics systems.

The two, 10 - meter optical / infrared telescopes near the summit of Mauna Kea on the Island of Hawai'i feature a suite of advanced instruments including imagers, multi-object spectrographs, high - resolution spectrographs, integral - field spectrographs and world - leading laser guide star adaptive optics systems.

Digging in a cave called Liang Bua on the island of Flores, they discovered something intriguing: extremely ancient stone tools.

The WHT is operated on the island of La Palma by the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias.

Starting in 2010, government workers began to vaccinate 150,000 dogs across Tanzania's southeast, covering about 18 % of the country, and on the island of Pemba in the north.

On the island of La Reunion in the Indian Ocean, the practice stopped only last year.

Fewer than 2 percent tested positive for the bacteria — mostly on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia, where a yaws outbreak was active at the time samples were collected.

An analysis of the greater bamboo lemur's current distribution on the island of Madagascar compared to its distribution in the past, as inferred from fossils, suggests that the lemurs used to live over a broader range.

On the island of Hainan, just off Guangdong's coast, China is constructing its most technologically advanced spacecraft launch center — the first spaceflight complex to be open to international visitors.

Located on the island of Santa Cruz in the Galápagos islands, the store was closed by local officials in July because other Santa Cruz storeowners had complained that their businesses were being harmed by the new shop, which was on target to bring in $ 400,000 per year.

This is a photograph of the greater bamboo lemur is a small cat sized primate living on the island of Madagascar and is considered to be one of the most endangered primates on Earth.

At the crowded symposium, archaeologist Daryl Fedje of the University of Victoria presented evidence of stemmed points and discoidal cores on the island of Haida Gwaii in British Columbia, Canada, dating back at least 12,700 years.

First discovered on the island of Java in 1891, and later unearthed in China, Kenya, Ethiopia, and the Republic of Georgia, Homo erectus («upright man») was the first hominid to migrate out of Africa.