Sentences with phrase «primarily sea island»

The island itself was bought by an agricultural company that used it to grow primarily Sea Island Cotton.

Not exact matches

Whereas Mitt wins primarily in just about everywhere else, New England, Ohio, Michigan, Florida, the West, North West, and the islands of the Sea.

«Today, the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers are grounded in a very precarious position, and major retreat may already be happening, caused primarily by warm waters melting from below the ice shelves that jut out from each glacier into the sea,» said Matthew Wise of Cambridge's Scott Polar Research Institute, and the study's first author.

Bigg's killer whales (formerly known as «transients») are currently managed as two stocks with overlapping ranges — the «Aleutian and western» stock (Gulf of Alaska, Aleutian Islands, and Bering Sea) and the much smaller «AT1» stock which appears to range primarily throughout Prince William Sound and the Kenai Fjords.

Unfortunately, due to extremely adverse climatic conditions (primarily an abundance of sea ice), our team was only able to prospect a small area of one of our islands of interest, James Ross Island.

Located primarily on the island of Great Britain and in Northern Ireland, the United Kingdom is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Internet freedom declined in 2017 as the Investigatory Powers Act (IP Act) authorized a range of surveillance powers, including some bulk surveillance of

For a century, the Channel Islands were used primarily for ranching and fishing activities, which had significant impacts on island ecosystems, including the local extinction of sea otters, bald eagles, and other species.

It primarily has to do with the fact that the sea in the South Pacific and Maldives is blocked by a natural volcanic reef that creates a huge lagoon surrounding the islands.

South Korea is also building up wind expertise, primarily through building wind farms in and around its southern island of Jeju in the East China Sea off South Korea's South Coast.

The species feeds primarily on migratory birds that use the island as a rest - stop, so of course potential changes from sea level rise or any changes in the habits of migrating birds could also spell disaster for the species.