Sentences with phrase «rocky island named»

Sitting in a half lotus on a small rocky island named Koh Farn off the north east coast of the island and connected to mainland Koh Samui via a causeway, the 12 metre high buddha image is lit up at night providing a spectacular sight.

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Depending on whom you ask, the name Lampedusa derives from the Greek lepas (limpet) for mollusks that cling to rocky shores, or - more likely - lampas (torch) for the lights that for centuries have helped mariners negotiate the island's treacherous coast.

The rocky island was named as Britain's tenth greatest natural wonder in a 2005 poll by the Radio Times, which is roughly three miles long by half a mile wide.

Origin of Pain is based around the cunningly named Paine Island, a small, rocky, tropical chunk of land that sits just off the shore of the game's main area.

Childe Hassam was the subject of an exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachussetts, entitled the Isles of Shoals, which took its name from the group of small, rocky islands off the Gulf of Maine, which the artist painted en plein air.

Named for a Greek island in the Aegean, Stamos's Infinity Field paintings express the warmth of the sun and the rocky coast through their intense color and irregularly contoured forms.