Sentences with phrase «small archipelago of»

Covering just a small archipelago of three islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Malta surprises its visitors with its astounding ability to meet everyone's expectations and desires.

But zoom in closer on the Azores — a small archipelago of nine islands nearly 1,000 miles off the coast of Portugal — and you'll find one of Europe's most fascinating natural landscapes.

A small archipelago of Gili Trawangan, Gili Meno and Gili Air next to a Lombok island has very calm and laid - back atmosphere with countless tiny cafes next to the beach area.

Located on a small archipelago of 14 private islands about 30 - 40 minutes by boat off Panama's southern coast, Islas Secas Resort is as exclusive as it is remote.

From private terraces on the second level, the beauty of the mangroves and small archipelago of cays that link Provo to North Caicos can be viewed.

A small archipelago of 12 islands, all in close proximity to each other, these islands are surrounded by crystal clear waters with pristine coral reefs.

Not exact matches

The Maltese archipelago (made up of three main islands) is one of Europe's smallest countries.

What they have constructed, these past thirty years, is not a globalised economy, but the world archipelago of capitalist islands - large or small - where they have concentrated world scientific and technological capacity (more than 92 % of world R&D expenditure, more than 90 % of patents and of the installed computer capacity...), financial power, symbolic power and media power of the present time.

Hacienda El Cafetal covers about 400 ha within the small area — roughly 3 % of the entire archipelago — that is not within the boundaries of the national park and thus where agriculture is allowed.

In the 1960s and 1970s, the British government expelled the entire population of the small Indian Ocean archipelago, then promptly leased the largest of the islands, Diego Garcia, to the United States for a military air base.

Their bones have even turned up in middens, or archaeological trash piles, dating back to at least 4500 years ago on Orkney, an island that lies about 16 kilometers off the northeastern coast of Scotland, and on the Outer Hebrides, a small archipelago located about 25 kilometers off the northwestern coast.

The sum total or added knowledge in the sixty years following Cook's voyages had led to a general belief that around the South Pole was a scattered archipelago and not a continental mass, a state of geographical information that was not materially changed until the discovery by Charles Wilkes that after all there is a great Antarctic land, even if it is smaller than the land of legend.

Puerto Rico is composed of an archipelago that includes the main island of Puerto Rico and a number of smaller islands and keys, the largest of which are Vieques, Culebra, and Mona.

Puerto Rico is composed of an archipelago that includes the main island of Puerto Rico and a number of smaller islands, the largest of which are Vieques, Culebra, and Mona.

Puerto Rico is composed of an archipelago that includes the main island of Puerto Rico and a number of smaller islands.

This diversity is reflected in the form of the state which is the largest archipelago country in the world with about 17,500 islands, big and small islands with a population of around 245 million (estimated in 2014).

From Mormon enclaves in Arizona to black liberationists in Michigan to Web entrepreneurs in California, this breathtaking array of sponsors soon will serve 500,000 students via an archipelago of small schools, enrolling fewer than 200 children on average.

As to why I've flown nearly halfway around the world to this small Spanish archipelago of banana plantations and lava rock sprouting from the Atlantic just off the northwest coast of Africa, well, I like to think it's because Porsche wanted a driving venue just as volcanic as its new sports car.

In telling the story of the Pacific, Simon Winchester takes us from the Bering Strait to Cape Horn, the Yangtze River to the Panama Canal, and to the many small islands and archipelagos that lie in between.

Just a few miles south of Singapore, on the largest island of the Riau archipelago that speckles the Java Sea, is the small port of Bandar Bentan Telani.

Bocas del Toro is an archipelago of small islands off the north coast of Panama on the Caribbean side.

A small group of us had just spent a fruitless week searching for waves in a remote corner of the Mentawai Islands, that exquisite archipelago in Indonesia that all surfers fantasize about.

The archipelago consists of a main island, Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, often called simply Tierra del Fuego or Isla Grande, with an area of 48,100 km2 (18,572 sq mi), and a group of smaller islands.

Literally translated as «the Four Kings,» the stunning archipelago is made up of over 1,500 small islands and four daddy islands!

Just four miles from the tropical western coast of Fiji is Bounty Island, one of twenty small landmasses that form the volcanic Mamanuca archipelago in the Pacific Ocean.

Fournoi is an archipelago of small Greek islands that lie between the islands of Ikaria, Samos and Patmos on the North Aegean.

Santa Barbara Island (Tongva: Tchunashngna)[1] is a small island of the Channel Islands archipelago in Southern California.

For the word «Similan» is a Malay or Jawi means nine or nine islands of the Similan Islands, a small archipelago.

The archipelago is composed of seven main islands and a few smaller islands.

Santa Fe Island (Spanish: Isla Santa Fe), also called Barrington Island after admiral Samuel Barrington, is a small island of 24 square kilometres (9.3 sq mi) which lies in the centre of the Galápagos archipelago, to the south east of Santa Cruz Island.

Anacapa is the smallest of the northern islands of the Channel Islands archipelago, and is within the Channel Islands National Park.

[6] The archipelago consists of seven large and several smaller islands, all of which are volcanic in origin.

Endemic to this archipelago and predominantly found along the craggy shores of Bartolomé Island, this particular breed of penguin is unusual for being the only one to live north of the equator (the Galápagos are absolutely awash with animal anomalies), and is much smaller than its more southern dwelling cousins.

Consisting of two main islands - imaginatively named North Island and South Island and many smaller islands in the South Pacific Ocean, the archipelago lies roughly 1,000 miles south east of Australia.

Cape Horn (Spanish: Cabo de Hornos, pronounced [ˈkaβo ðe ˈoɾnos]-RRB- is the southernmost headland of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago of southern Chile, and is located on the small Hornos Island.

The nation of Malta is a small European archipelago to the south of Sicily, consisting of the inhabited islands Malta, Gozo and Kemmun.

All of the following are easily reached independently — or take an island hopper boat to explore the smaller offshore island beaches scattered throughout the archipelago.

The smaller island of Kofiau and over 1,500 small islet, cays and shoals complete the archipelago.

This archipelago also contains some of the most diverse and interesting marine ecosystems in the world: offshore fringing reefs which present a better visibility, healthy corals and small rocky islands that attract sharks and rays and countless number of marine species.

At only 426 feet wide, South Plaza is one of the smallest islands in the archipelago.

The Gili Islands are a small archipelago off the northwest coast of Lombok, an island in Indonesia.

There are four types of diving environments in the archipelago: first are the shallow inshore fringing island reefs where visibility is often poor but the diversity of marine life is unsurpassed; second are the offshore fringing reefs where the visibility is considerably better, and the coral much healthier; third are the pinnacles and small rocky islands which rise from the depths and attract larger marine life such as sharks and rays; and fourth are the banks which rise up from depths of over 300 meters and attract different types of marine life altogether.

That afternoon we headed out in the small safari boats into the breath - taking Danube Delta UNESCO Reserve, which boasts the third largest biodiversity in the world with over 5,500 species of flora and fauna and is exceeded only by the Great Barrier Reef and the Galapagos archipelago.

For more beautiful beaches, head to Porto Santo island, the smaller of the two populated islands of the Madeira archipelago.

Zanzibar is an archipelago consisting of two main Islands of Unguja (commonly referred to as Zanzibar Island) and Pemba, along with about 51 other surrounding small islets.

Cuba is comprised of the large main island as well as smaller archipelagos off the coast.

The itinerary includes a visit to Tristan da Cunha, an archipelago of small islands in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean that are said to be the most remote inhabited isles in the world.

The Gili Islands are an archipelago of three small islands — Gili Trawangan, Gili Meno and Gili Air — 20minutes off the northwest coast of Lombok Indonesia and 2 hours from Bali in the fast boat.

From exotic locations from the River Nile Temples of Egypt, the spectacular Aegean coast of Turkey, the crystal clear tropical waters of the Maldives, the remote Atlantic archipelago of Cape Verde, the Saturday Guardian chose St Hilda's Hebridean cruises as one of the best small ship cruises in the world.

Day 6 Full - day island visit to either North Seymour, a small flat island surrounded by low cliffs, South Plaza, an uplifted slab of sea floor, Bartolomé, characterised by a high volcanic crater or Santa Fe, one of the oldest islands of the archipelago.