Sentences with phrase «rocky islands at»

The Brothers, a pair of tiny, rocky islands at the confluence of Stephens Passage and Frederick Sound, are home to some of Alaska's most abundant wildlife, including a haulout for Steller sea lions.

The Brothers, a pair of tiny, rocky islands at the confluence of Stephen's Passage and Frederick Sound, are home to some of Alaska's most abundant wildlife, including a haulout for Stellar sea lions.

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Investors» warm reception for this week's $ 3.5 bln issue looks strange given the island's junk rating and rocky finances, not to mention that existing bonds trade at a big discount.

For years it was held at a lovely little conference center on a rocky neck projecting into Long Island Sound.

Educators are pushing back at Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to install state troopers at certain Long Island schools, making a rocky start for the quickly hatched proposal.

Educators are pushing back at Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's plan to install state troopers at certain Long Island schools, making a rocky start for the quickly hatched proposal.

Great Island, the largest and at the centre of the string of rocky islets, covers about 400 hectares.

The brainchild of Steve Ross (a passionate soccer fan who was also a major executive at Warner Communications) and Ahmet Ertegun and Nesuhi Ertegun (the founders of Atlantic Records), the Cosmos got off to a rocky start in 1971 (no one was especially happy with the playing field at Randall's Island, and some rowdy fans were known to throw broken glass onto the grass), but things changed in 1975 when the world's most celebrated soccer star, the Brazilian champion Pele, signed with the Cosmos for a five - million - dollar payday.

Included in the mix are four rocky islands (Marcus, Schaapen, Jutten and Malgas) supporting an incredible density of seabirds, and Postberg Flower Reserve — open annually during the spring when the flowers are at their best.

Cool off at Honeymoon Bay at the island's North Point, which is wedged between spectacular rocky cliffs rising upwards of 15 metres (49 feet).

We took a chance to stop at Isla Incahuasi, one of the small «islands» in the middle of the Salar, and got out for a short hike on the rocky outcrop.

Additionally, Raseborg is a good place to spend some time at the beautiful Finnish coast, as the town is full of rocky beaches and small islands.

On Wednesday, September 12th, come hear National Park Service biologist Dan Richards as he shares his nearly 30 year experience monitoring 21 rocky intertidal sites at Channel Islands National Park.

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.

The majority of sites along the island's western coast and around the nearby island of Klein Bonaire feature similar profiles: Beaches or rocky shorelines are fronted by a coastal ledge that slopes gradually from the waterline to a depth of around 25 feet, then turns downward at a steeper angle to reach depths of around 100 feet.

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Looking at Isola Bella today, it is hard to believe it was once a rocky island, home to a small community of fishermen.

Malta is at the cross-roads of the Mediterranean and that's why this rocky island has such a varied history: Phoenician traders, the Romans, the Moors and the Italians all tussled over the island, with each culture influencing the language, food and architecture.

At Cepor Cepor you will be diving down a channel between two granite islands, and as you expect, with rocky boulders comes a lot of sea urchins.

At the northern end of the 75 mile beach you will find Indian Head, the rocky headland that anchors the sands that form Fraser Island.

Covered with lush vegetation, this rocky islet, dotted with tiny sand coves, offers two main landing spots to its visitors: Bon Island Restaurant is ideally located between two small beaches at the northwestern tip of the island while Long Beach is a semi-private 300m - long strip of white sand situated on the northeastern coast of KoIsland Restaurant is ideally located between two small beaches at the northwestern tip of the island while Long Beach is a semi-private 300m - long strip of white sand situated on the northeastern coast of Koisland while Long Beach is a semi-private 300m - long strip of white sand situated on the northeastern coast of Koh Bon.

With so much diving and surfing, there is also a wide range of other activities to fill your time on the island, there is the underground house carved by hand over 15 years, a punting trip through the mangroves forest, a seaweed history tour, a geyser like blow hole in the rocky cliffs called «The Devil's tear «and many water sports are available at Jungut Batu beach.

The place to dive is at the west coast of this island and consists of a relatively rocky area which runs to a depth of about 20mtr.

It's set on the northern tip of the island, built into the rocky coastline at the edge of the Sierra de Tramuntana mountain range with beautiful views across the ocean.

Follow Lauren Fensterstock as she travels from the rocky coast of Portland, Maine, to the beaches of Sanibel Island, Florida, to orchestrate a colossal collection of shells and disparate objects into a cohesive, organic form for her Project Atrium installation Holophusicon at MOCA Jacksonville.

Then one by one, various incidentals emerge — a densely wooded island, a rocky outcropping, the flat disk of the sun — and suddenly you're looking at a vertically tilted, crazily Cubistic landscape.

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.

Early in 1940 we managed to find a small house and for the next three years... I was not able to carve at all... the only sculptures I carried out were some small plaster maquettes for the second «sculpture with colour», and it was not until 1943, when we moved to another house, that I was able to carve this idea... In St Ives I was fortunate enough to have constant contact with artists and writers and craftsmen who lived there, Ben Nicholson my husband, Naum Gabo, Bernard Leach, Adrian Stokes, and there was a steady stream of visitors from London who came for a few days rest, and who contributed in a great measure to the important exchange of ideas and stimulus to creative activity... It was during this time that I gradually discovered the remarkable pagan landscape which lies between St Ives, Penzance and Land's End; a landscape which still has a very deep effect on me, developing all my ideas about the relationship of the human figure in landscape - sculpture in landscape and the essential quality of light in relation to sculpture which induced a new way of piercing the forms to contain colour... The sea, a flat diminishing plane, held within itself the capacity to radiate an infinitude of blues, greys, greens and even pinks of strange hues; the lighthouse and its strange rocky island was an eye; the Island of St Ives an arm, a hand, a face... I used colour and strings in many of the carvings of thisisland was an eye; the Island of St Ives an arm, a hand, a face... I used colour and strings in many of the carvings of thisIsland of St Ives an arm, a hand, a face... I used colour and strings in many of the carvings of this time.

A boyhood glimpse of the Wild Man of Borneo (at the Coney Island Midway, of course) set him on a circuitous and rocky course — one so movingly charted by a new film biography.