Sentences with phrase «on ocean islands»

Global warming alarmists often exploit the determination of what is happening along a shoreline or on ocean islands.

The rock's enrichment in sodium, giving it a feldspar - rich mineral content, makes it very similar to some rocks erupted on ocean islands on Earth.

Not exact matches

Damn the American consumer who dares to pay for such frivolities, never mind the fact that we spend more than $ 10 billion a year on bottles of stuff that otherwise flows freely from our taps — and one of the most popular brands ships its product in from a tiny island in the Pacific Ocean.

Malaysia's deputy transport minister says it is «almost certain» that the wreckage found on Reunion island in the Indian Ocean this week is from a Boeing 777 — the same type of aircraft as missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.

While investigators initially thought the plane may have gone down quickly in a tight spiral, the debris that washed up on Reunion Island near Madagascar in the Indian Ocean last week suggests that the aircraft may have glided along after running out of fuel and descended slowly into the water.

From our elevated position, the lush green jungle tumbled down the hillside to the ocean below, and the neighboring island of Phangnan loomed large on the horizon.

(You'll also probably want to take a look at our Rhode Island mortgage guide for information on rates and details about getting a mortgage in the Ocean State.)

Kohl says that there will be enough supply to meet the demand over the next decade in Greater Vancouver, although Fraser Valley gravel sources on land will become depleted, necessitating the transport of gravel by ocean barge from Texada Island.

In support of the Administration's priorities to advance domestic energy production, generate revenue, and increase job opportunities nationwide, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is moving forward with wind energy planning efforts on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) in the New York Bight region, which represents an area of shallow waters between Long Island (to the north and east) and the New Jersey coast (to the south and west).

Put them on their own island in the middle of the ocean somewhere,?

Its interesting that sitting on a small island in the middle of the pacific ocean, I really understand what you are getting at.

The worst Atlantic Ocean hurricane ever recorded, Irma left at least eight people dead and a trail of destruction on Wednesday when it struck the islands of Barbuda, St Martin and St Barts.

He writes about the sixteen days he spent sailing the Pacific Ocean with five buddies and a crate of canned meat, the time he took his kids on a world tour to eat ice cream with heads of state, his stubbornness in getting into law school by sitting on a bench outside the dean's office for seven days until they finally let him enroll, his «office» at Tom Sawyer Island at Disneyland, the flowers he sent to the elderly woman who nearly killed him running a stop sign, the work he's done to free Ugandan children from prison.

Danish archeologists working on the island of Bahrain in «the (Persian) Gulf» have now discovered there was lively trade across the Indian Ocean, using the Monsoons, from Yemen and Oman to the Indus cultures.

Two thousand years later, the average person lives on a lonely island of separation in the midst of a vast ocean of the divine offer of community.

Since I love the ocean and had tried surfing one time while in California, I wanted to go to Rincon on the west end of the island.

Having lived near the ocean on Vancouver Island in the Pacific Northwest all my life, wild salmon has been always been an important part of my diet.

Then it was off to Amsterdam and Heineken world headquarters, then Africa again, and on to a small French island in the Indian Ocean between Madagascar and Mauritius.

If you happen to find yourself sailing through the Indian Ocean, make a stop on the island of Mauritius to try this heat - beating lager.

A short boat ride away from the Main Island lies a separate water village of «The Ocean Pearls»; 16 overwater villas perched on platforms overlooking the iridescent ocean, complete with own fine - dining restaurant and team of private butOcean Pearls»; 16 overwater villas perched on platforms overlooking the iridescent ocean, complete with own fine - dining restaurant and team of private butocean, complete with own fine - dining restaurant and team of private butlers.

Book your stay at Fashion Island Hotel, and play a round of golf on one of Pelican Hill Golf Club's two ocean - view courses.

Zemi Beach House Hotel & Spa is a sprawling resort situated on the tiny Caribbean island of Anguilla with luxury accommodations offering modern amenities, a serene spa, and ocean views.

Marco Beach Ocean Resort ® is a luxury Marco Island hotel and resort, newly renovated, and sitting on the Gulf of Mexico.

Located eight miles off the Southeast coast of Puerto Rico on the peaceful and untouched island of Vieques, the Retreat & Spa features 156 stylish guest rooms and suites, all with private patios and balconies, providing unparalleled views of the Atlantic Ocean.

Ella Williams - Stacey King's grandmother and three generations of the family spent 30 years on Banaba (Ocean Island) 1901 - 1931.

Their story begins back in 1900 on a small isolated Pacific island known as Ocean Island with the discovery of a strange looking rock that turned out to be one of the purest forms of phosphate ever discoisland known as Ocean Island with the discovery of a strange looking rock that turned out to be one of the purest forms of phosphate ever discoIsland with the discovery of a strange looking rock that turned out to be one of the purest forms of phosphate ever discovered.

Bobby Riggs played tennis with kings of Europe, played footsie with queens of Hollywood, won Wimbledon once, Forest Hills twice, the World Professional Championship four times, took a honeymoon on an ocean liner and then was buried once more in a family photo album entitled, «Centre Court, Plandome, Long Island.»

Wie, playing in her tour's season - opening Pure Silk - Bahamas LPGA Classic, made her first eagle of the new year with a hole - out for a 3 on the par - 5 11th hole at the Ocean Club Golf Course on Paradise Island.

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

Gordon is now buried on Christmas Island in a marble tomb in a Chinese temple on the edge of the rainforest overlooking the ocean and westerly sunsets.

When you are facing the ocean or watching the waves crash on Bribie Island you feel as if you are on a remote resort in the south pacific.

Unfortunately there was stormy weather that circled the island and only allowed us to swim in the ocean on the first & last days of our stay.

They live on a small island up in the North Atlantic Ocean.

One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.

I like to give the analogy that if you are living on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, growing all your own foods and gathering pure rainwater to drink, then you don't need to provide your child with supplements.

At 6 p.m., state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia and Regent Christine Cea will hold a public hearing on New York's draft Every Student Succeeds Act plan, The Michael J. Petrides Campus, Building H, Conference Room 1, 715 Ocean Terrace, Staten Island.

18 July 2007 — CHAGOS ISLANDS: DIEGO GARCIA Question: To ask Her Majesty's Government: Whether there is now, or has ever been, a Central Intelligence Agency detention centre at Diego Garcia in the British Indian Ocean Territory; and whether any terrorist suspects have been taken to Diego Garcia on rendition flights.

The all - female sequel to the «Ocean's» trilogy — which stars Sandra Bullock, Anne Hathaway, Cate Blanchett and Rihanna — will film at the now - closed Arthur Kill Correctional Facility in Staten Island on Saturday, the borough president announced Thursday.

At 1 p.m., NYC Parks Commissioner Mitchell Silver and local officials cut the ribbon on a new $ 5.8 million horse riding arena at Ocean Breeze, 599 Father Capodanna Blvd., Staten Island.

Brookhaven Town Supervisor Ed Romaine (R), who wrote two letters to Zinke, one opposing drilling in the Atlantic and Arctic oceans and another one requesting a hearing on Long Island, read from one of the letters.

In his «I Have a Dream Speech,» Dr. King reminded us that one hundred years after the Emancipation Proclamation, blacks still lived on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.

Add all this to Donovan's strong electoral track record and the ocean of goodwill he has enjoyed with Island voters for years, and the Democrats will have a tough roe to hoe against Donovan next year, even with the Garner case on his docket.

The birth and death of a young volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean may shed light on the origins of volcanoes in Mars» wetter past.

On a small Australian island in the Indian Ocean, supercolonies of yellow crazy ants are causing what one biologist refers to as a «meltdown» of the native ecosystem.

Divers from the Rothera Research Station in Antarctica monitor heated panels, designed to mimic ocean warming, on the seabed near Adelaide Island.

Save for a trio of researchers who made their North Pole trek double as a march for science, the honor of the farthest north march today was held by the small Norwegian research village: Ny - Ålesund, on the island of Svalbard in the Arctic Ocean.

The ecological transition that's occurring in the ocean bears startling parallels to the one that occurred on the island itself sometime in the last few hundred years.

On its surface, the presence of Australasian genes might seem to indicate that people had sailed from that area across the Pacific Ocean to the Americas, but that genetic signature does not show up in people in the Pacific islands, which likely would have been along the route.

On the right are thick beds with fenestral porosity, or «beach bubbles,» showing that massive waves ran up over older dunes exposed in a roadcut on Suzy Turn Road along the Atlantic Ocean east side of Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands, BWOn the right are thick beds with fenestral porosity, or «beach bubbles,» showing that massive waves ran up over older dunes exposed in a roadcut on Suzy Turn Road along the Atlantic Ocean east side of Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands, BWon Suzy Turn Road along the Atlantic Ocean east side of Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands, BWI.

So far we have spent 3.5 days crossing the Southern Ocean from the Falkland Islands, a week undertaking a geophysical survey of Marguerite Bay on the western Antarctic Peninsula, and 2 days in transit «around the point» into the northwestern Weddell Sea.