Sentences with phrase «remote islands as»

Hundreds of dive sites to explore, including some of the most pristine reefs on earth, great Muck diving, remote islands as well as touristy spots... Malaysia has it all!

Vietnam beach tours include Vietnam holidays amidst miles of beaches, deserted bays, remote islands as well as coral reefs and many water activities that are found in areas such as Nha Trang, Muine, Phu Quoc, Long Hai, Whale Island, Danang... they are just few among a gamut of beaches dotting the coast Vietnam travelers will find including chill backpacker hangouts, luxurious resort getaways and sleepy fishing villages.

Wayne describes the beaches of the remote island as a «garbage dump» as trade winds continually blow huge mounds of plastic debris on shore.

Solitary Company is a portrait of a remote island as seen through the eyes of its inhabitants.

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People who own and run their own business like to think of themselves as a remote island.

The projects we photograph are as diverse as their locations, from just around the corner in downtown Vancouver, to Victoria and Nanaimo, across the border in Bellingham or Seattle, or out to the Gulf Islands, San Juan Islands, Sunshine Coast, and remote Coast Salish First Nations reserves.

As adults, we can find that fulfillment is not in becoming remote self - sufficient islands, but becoming more dependent on God and Christian communities.

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.

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.

Perhaps there aren't as many cappuccino shops on a remote Scottish island.

Speaking Sunday at a press conference detailing the report, the head of the 27 - member commission, former New York Chief Justice Jonathan Lippman, excoriated Rikers Island as a «penal colony» physically and psychologically remote from the city at large that does far more harm than good to anyone who ends up there.

Around the same size as Jamaica, this is one of the most remote and difficult to access islands in the Canadian High Arctic, and as such not much was known about the geology.

EASTER ISLAND, one of the world's remotest inhabited islands, was colonised from the Americas as well as Asia.

AS ISLANDS go, you would be hard pressed to find one more remote.

As islands they seem remote, not because they're far away but because they're far above.

The Mortlock Islands flying fox, a large, breadfruit - eating bat native to a few remote and tiny Pacific islands, has long been regarded as one of the world's least studieIslands flying fox, a large, breadfruit - eating bat native to a few remote and tiny Pacific islands, has long been regarded as one of the world's least studieislands, has long been regarded as one of the world's least studied bats.

A group of scientists of the Institute of Applied Geosciences (AGW) and the Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research — Atmospheric Trace Gases and Remote Sensing Division (IMK - ASF) of KIT as well as of ETH Zurich recently analyzed above - ground and underground heat islands in four big cities in Germany in relation to each other.

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.

«Many parts of the coast can, with forward planning, adapt to sea - level rise, but we need to better understand environments that will struggle to adapt, such as developing countries with large low - lying river deltas sensitive to salinisation, or coral reefs and particularly small, remote islands or poorer communities,» said Dr Brown.

As Hawaiian crows are only distantly related to New Caledonian crows but evolved in similar remote tropical - island environments, the authors suggest that convergent evolution of tool - related adaptations may have taken place.

A monitor lizard trekking around Mussau in northeastern Papua New Guinea reigns supreme as the remote island's top predator and scavenger.

(Also known as «Sports Island 2» in the UK / EU) Use the Wii Remote and Nunchuk to dive right into the action in this sport - o-rama extravaganza!

They consistently talk about how nobody will ever find them as though they were on a remote island in the Pacific rather than in the middle of the largest city in Europe.

This romantic coming of age story is based on the memoirs of John H. Groberg, who served as a missionary in the remote Tongan Islands in the 1950's.

The latter film stars Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (the real - life couple who looked into the Amityville Horror case), who get called to a remote Rhode Island farmhouse to help a family terrorized by the spirit of a long - dead witch.

The film is described as a dark psycho - creeper about trio of lighthouse keepers pitted against each other on a remote island off the coast of Scotland.

New Orleans native Patricia Clarkson stars as a recently widowed woman who retreats to a remote Canadian island.

WHAT: While living on a remote island off the coast of Australia, lighthouse keeper Tom Sherbourne (Michael Fassbender) and his wife Isabel (Alicia Vikander) rescue a baby from a drifting rowboat and decide to raise it as their own.

WRECKED (single camera) Pickes up to series STUDIO: TBS TEAM: Justin Shipley (w), Jordan Shipley (w), Jesse Hara LOGLINE: Described as Lost meets It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, it chronicles the aftermath of a plane crashing on a remote island.

He's a World War I veteran hired as a lighthouse keeper in 1918 on a remote island off the coast of Australia.

He's chosen to live its remainder out on the far flung island of Janus, as remote a place as can be aptly named after the two - faced God of new beginnings.

In the film, the writer of such acclaimed dramas as After the Wedding, In a Better World, Red Road, and Brothers, investigates the knotty and perverse family tree that two troubled, dysfunctional, eccentric brothers living on a remote Danish island belong to.

Hanks, who serves as a producer, plays an ambitious FedEx system engineer whose life, run with the precision of a Swiss watch, is shattered when his plane crashes, leaving him alone on a remote island.

He has applied for a job as a lighthouse keeper on a remote island off the coast of Western Australia.

Centering around a group of dogs who live on a remote island — due to an executive decree stating that all canine pets of Megasaki City must be exiled to a garbage dump known as Trash Island — Atari then ultimately finds himself in search of his lost pup, island — due to an executive decree stating that all canine pets of Megasaki City must be exiled to a garbage dump known as Trash Island — Atari then ultimately finds himself in search of his lost pup, Island — Atari then ultimately finds himself in search of his lost pup, Spots.

Miranda Otto's performance carries the film, essentially, and it's fascinating to watch such a shy, lonely and eager to please person as Meredith try to survive on a remote island with a population of exactly eight people.

Opening April 4th, the exciting new IMAX 3D documentary, «Island of Lemurs: Madagascar,» takes audiences on a spectacular journey to the remote and wondrous world of Madagascar, where lemurs arrived millions of years ago as...

1998's Metal Gear Solid is a formative game for the stealth genre, following professional commando Solid Snake as he foils a terrorist plot on a remote island in Alaska.

Abigail Breslin stars as the title character, a young girl who lives on a remote island in the South Pacific with her father, scientist Jack Rusoe (Gerard Butler).

The idea that drives Jason is to buy a remote island in the Pacific, where he and his companions henceforth will be able to live the life of Riley — patently over the top as an ambition, and a fit subject, perhaps, for a satire on human pretensions.

The tale concerns the wizard Prospero's decision to leave a remote island in order to resume his role as the Duke of Milan — and, in the process, give up his magic powers.

After mistakenly identifying the remains of another dog as Spots, they seek the advice of wizened old fools Jupiter (F. Murray Abraham) and Oracle (Tilda Swinton) who point them to the remote reaches of the island where they might have luck finding him amidst the cannibalistic tribes rumored to be living there.

Filmed on a remote island off the coast of Ireland, it looks like a land plucked from Lord of the Rings, only the fantastical creatures — lactating sea aliens (that Luke Skywalker drinks the milk of) and Porgs, those adorable - as - hell owl - ferret creatures from the trailer — confirm that you're in the Star Wars universe.

He says Earhart and Noonan were forced to land on a remote island in the Pacific called Nikumaroro, as they didn't have enough fuel to make it to Howland Iisland in the Pacific called Nikumaroro, as they didn't have enough fuel to make it to Howland IslandIsland.

A World War I veteran and his wife have a mostly comfortable life together on a remote island off the coast of Australia where he makes a living as a lighthouse keeper.

Infused with spirituality as well as heart - stopping action, this novel, set on a remote Indian island, addresses issues of modernity versus tradition as seen through the eyes of 15 - year - old Uido, her tribe's spiritual leader.

Due to their protected status, the remote islands serve as a point of ecological focus.

As a Special Constable, Teddy Creque is the only police presence on the remote, sun - drenched island of Anegada, nestled in the heart of the British Virgin Islands.

Or place may be so important it takes on the importance of a character, as in Michael Crummy's Sweetland, with a protagonist who remains behind when his remote island home is abandoned.

Some of the most remote shipments will be sent as far away as Mongolia and the Northern Mariana Islands.