Sentences with phrase «separate the island from»

There is only a small channel separating the island from Mexico, with a mix of cultures crossing back and forth.

Double Island is named for the two humps that make it appear as two separate islands from a distance.

I am standing on a small stretch of beach that straddles Zanzibar's main Town, Stone Town, and the narrow ribbon of Indian Ocean, which separates the island from the African mainland.

Rocky Point is about 4.5 miles south of Boca Bacalar Chico, a partly man - made channel which separates the island from the Xcalac Peninsula and forms a portion of Belize's northern border with Mexico.

The island is easily accessible from the Puerto Juarez in Cancun, with only a 7 mile strait separating the island from the mainland.

Pemba Strait, separating the island from the continent, is famous for the biggest fish catches in East Africa.

There's only one hundred metres that separate the island from the beach, and you can get there on foot at low tide or by kayak at high tide.

South of Taiwan in the ocean area separating the island from the northern Philippines could be a major area for development of renewable energy.

Not exact matches

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Although Ireland had never been conquered by the Romans, the majority of the population retained its Roman Catholic allegiance, but partly, at least, because the English, who eventually separated from Rome, ruled the island and the Roman Catholic form of the faith became associated with Irish nationalism and resistance to English rule.

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 butlers.

It's wholly separate from the existing Staten Island ferry, which runs a single route between the Battery and St. George, and is planned to run broadly along the waterfront of the other four boroughs.

A community group in Mott Haven wants to reseed Bronx Kill with oysters and mussels, in an effort to clean up the polluted waterway which separates the Bronx from Randalls Island.

There have been attempts over the years to separate upstate counties from downstate or spin off Long Island into separate state — though none have been successful.

ALBANY, NY — Separate audits of Metro - North Railroad and the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) found they failed to properly manage overtime paid by funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), allowing abuses such as allowing some conductors to charge overtime for tasks such as washing up for work, New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli announced today.

Rattus detentus, a Rodent of Unusual Size: On Manus Island, separated from New Guinea by about 100 miles of ocean, researchers found one of the largest rats known from the Melanesian archipelago, a particularly rich region for rat diversity, according to the April study in the Journal of Mammalogy.

Maximum sea depth between the mainland and islands was a secondary driver of body size, with treeshrews on islands separated from the mainland by deeper waters typically exhibiting larger body size, the researchers said.

What's more, detailed studies of the Southeast Asian coastline of 50,000 years ago showed that an 800 - mile - long stretch of islands and at least eight ocean straits separated the island continent from the Asian mainland.

The study, led by Amy Russell, associate professor of biology at Grand Valley, reveals that the Hawaiian hoary bat migrated to the islands from the Pacific coast of North America in two separate waves more than 9,000 years apart.

That moratorium has made Tasmania - an island the size of Ireland separated from Australia's mainland by 250 km (150 miles) of Bass Strait waters - a model of high - end, value - added agriculture production.

Furthermore, Buden and colleagues demonstrated that flying foxes from the nearby islands of Chuuk Lagoon, long regarded as a separate species (Pteropus insularis), are also best regarded as a subspecies of Pteropus pelagicus, showing that the species has a wider geographic distribution than previously realized.

They demonstrated that flying foxes from the nearby islands of Chuuk Lagoon, long regarded as the separate species Pteropus insularis, are best regarded as a subspecies of Pteropus pelagicus.

To conduct the study, Thomas Davies, a community ecologist at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, and his team traveled to the Menai Strait, a narrow, shallow stretch of water that separates the mainland of northwest Wales from the island of Anglesey, an area that remains largely unaffected by light pollution.

Their Moggridgea spiders might have diverged at the same time that their islands separated from Africa.

The giant ice island is 46 square miles (120 square kilometers), and separated from the terminus of the Petermann Glacier, one of Greenland's largest.

They evolved in Africa long ago, then migrated to what is now Madagascar, before this island became separated from the east coast of Africa.

The tyrannosaurid dinosaurs likely evolved in isolation on the island continent, with incursions of the seaway separating small areas of land from each other.

11 states and 2 federal territories (Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya) form Peninsular Malaysia which is separated by the South China Sea from East Malaysia which includes the 2 states (Sabah and Sarawak on the island of Borneo) and a third federal territory, the island of Labuan.

Commonly, people think their reproductive organs are like an island - separate from the rest of their body.

It's separated from the mainland by the imaginatively monickered Dead Island Channel, and is neighboured to the east by the invitingly named Lash Island and Pratt Island.

It's worth noting that, in terms of content, the Switch version, like other console editions, is the equivalent of the Game of the Year 2.0 iOS version, which includes an extra island with some extra challenges that are mostly completely separated from the main game and adds a bit of extra background plot for good measure.

The latter expansion, dubbed «Ryder White» is a separate campaign, re-telling the events of Dead Island from a different perspective.

«71 (Yann Demange, 2014) Powerful largely first - person tale told over one long night in Northern Island in 1971, when a British soldier separated from his unit must survive the IRA.

She's one of the first students to participate in the Pacific Rim Exchange (dubbed PacRimX), a cross-cultural project that will link several high schools in the Modesto, California, area to Kyoto Gakuen High School, in Kyoto, Japan, via a group of private «islands» in the Teen Second Life Grid (a separate Second Life space that exists apart from the Main Grid and is open only to kids 13 - 17 and approved adults).

What separates Washington Island from other districts is Death's Door Passage, funding and class sizes.

The most northerly point of the island of Great Britain, Dunnet Head overlooks Pentland Firth, a straight that separates the British mainland from the Orkney Islands and is known for its fast tides.

; ** Beautiful heated Nappa leather seats with electric adjustment and memory function **; Comes with Luxury indoor car cover and separate hard top cover.; ** This car really is in absolutey Immaculate condition **; First purchased from Jacksons Garage in Jersey in the Channel Islands on 18/06/1999, then sold on to its second Jersey owner on 26/07/2016.

For ages the Andaman and Nicobar Islands have remained estranged from the Indian mainland, separated by the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea.

Located just south of Australia, Tasmania Island is separated from the mainland by the Bass Straight which is 149 miles (240 km) wide at its narrowest point.

Alex von Tunzelmann's brilliant narrative follows these five rivals and accomplices from the beginning of the Cold War to its end, each with a separate vision for his tropical paradise, and each in search of power and adventure as the United States and the USSR acted out the world's tensions in their island nations.

Eddie never knew whether that was true or not, the bricklayer part, he always had trouble separating fact from fiction with his mother, who didn't stop keeping scrapbooks on Princess Grace until she died in that car crash on the same road Eddie'd driven down from Cannes — the Grand Corniche — which was scarier than the Cyclone ride at Coney Island.

HSBC Private Wealth Services (Canada) Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of, but separate entity from, HSBC Bank Canada and provides services in all provinces of Canada except Prince Edward Island.

HPWS is a wholly owned subsidiary of, but separate entity from, HSBC Bank Canada and provides its services in all provinces of Canada, except Prince Edward Island.

HSBC Global Asset Management (Canada) Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of, but separate entity from, HSBC Bank Canada and provides services in all provinces of Canada except Prince Edward Island.

HSBC Global Asset Management (Canada) Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of, but separate entity from, HSBC Bank Canada and provides its services in all provinces of Canada except Prince Edward Island.

«Manufacturers can not stand as an island separate from the retailer's sales experience.

The name of Nusa Dua Beach is actually derived from the name of two small islands in southern part of Bali Island separated by white sand (Nusa means island and Dua meansIsland separated by white sand (Nusa means island and Dua meansisland and Dua means Two).

Timber louver shutters separate the en suite bathroom from the master suite, and can be thrown open to invite in the exotic views of Palm Cove Beach and Double Island, or can be closed to provide an intimate and romantic ambiance.

The Great Sandy Strait, separating Fraser Island from the mainland, is listed by the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Convention).

There are two separate water taxi companies that have regular service between Ambergris Caye and Chetumal.  ItÂ's critical to know which one you have tickets for. One leaves from the front of the island, at 7:15 AM. The other leaves from the back of the island, at 8 AM. For more info, click on San Pedro Water Jets Express and San Pedro Belize Water ExpressÂ... Note that Water Jets Express is the authorized agent for ADO bus service to Cancun.