Sentences with phrase «small island area»

Unlike the continental U.S., with its abundance of micro and regional climates, the small island area of Great Britain affords less climate variety yet produces similar warming / cooling trends over the recent past.

Not exact matches

Singapore, the smallest nation in Asia, occupies a 225 - square - mile expanse of swampy, tropical islands — an area about the size of Trenton, New Jersey.

In the West Brighton section of Staten Island, small groups of people walk across the street from the project buildings into the parking lot of New Hope Community Church, where they dodge basketballs whizzing by before congregating in a beautifully renovated building that was a staging area for an underground pit bull fighting ring up until a few years ago.

With a year - round population of about 25,000 and a geographic area of only four by two miles, the island of Key West, Fla., is a relatively small community, figuratively and literally.

David Jaacks, a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and his Smithfield Company have come up with a design for a small enclosure for nursing moms, a «lactation suite,» that could soon spread to public areas including airports and malls worldwide.

As that material drifted toward Sampsons Island and accreted, the number of pairs of all species declined again, and productivity also declined as the smaller nesting areas became more vulnerable to predators and storm overwash.

On Staten Island, where there area about 8,000 businesses — a majority of which fall under the category of small businesses — the benefits could be significant, according to some Island accountants.

Mr. Palumbo was quick to note this potential rule change would affect only Fishers Island residents and would only apply to a small area around New London.

Even RealtyTrac's note that the smallest growth in local housing prices came in areas hardest hit by Sandy (Staten Island, Nassau and Suffolk Counties) may be purely coincidental.

Future City Dongtan China watches over every drop of water On a small, thinly populated island about 14 miles off the coast of Shanghai, a city is rising that could spell salvation for the 1 billion people expected to live in China's urban areas by 2045.

Newborn white sharks, as small as 4.0 feet long, regularly occur off Long Island, New York, suggesting this area may provide nursery habitat.

Gaveau said analysis by his organization showed the fires on the two largest burnt areas in Indonesia's Riau province on Sumatra island during February and March this year were either started outside concessions, or on land occupied by small - scale operators within concessions.

Let's not just keep them in zoos or even in small island pockets of protected areas.

«Ice - free areas make for small patches of suitable habitat for plants and animals — like islands in a sea of ice,» she said.

Ms Lee said Antarctic ice - free areas cover less than one per cent of the continent, ranging from the size of a football pitch to the size of a small Pacific Island.

After that heyday, the bears must have been split up into small, isolated populations — genetic bottlenecks — perhaps as they sought refuge on islands and other areas not covered by advancing glaciers during the most recent ice age.

Many monogenetic volcanic fields occur in high - density, populated areas and tourist destinations (e.g. Canary Islands, Auckland City, Mexico City, Izu - Tobu volcanic field), and thus even a small eruption can have a major economic and societal impact.

«The addition of new reserve areas, which are effectively just a few more small islands for a few pandas, will not address the key factors that are compromising survival of wild panda populations,» Loeffler says.

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

Unfortunately, due to extremely adverse climatic conditions (primarily an abundance of sea ice), our team was only able to prospect a small area of one of our islands of interest, James Ross Island.

DLDD affected and prone areas are expected to increase in the future, causing severe impacts on their economies, especially in the Least Developed Countries, Small Islands Developing States and other developing countries.

Indeed, several admixture scenarios [44], [45] and selection at linked sites are expected to generate an excess of high frequency derived alleles, but the observation that most islands of differentiation are not enriched for high frequency derived alleles suggests that selection at linked sites is likely to have a relatively small contribution overall to the occurrence of areas of high differentiation.

small area where the climate differs within a larger climate region, such as «heat islands» in a city.

Attendees were bused onto Roosevelt Island, a small area in New York's East River, to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park.

If your kitchen has an open floor plan, investing in a temporary kitchen island or adding a small dining table in the area can increase your storage space, countertop workspace, and add an element of design to your open kitchen.

Smaller cities, more rural areas and Hamilton tend to favour either honey or darling (with darling more popular in the North Island and honey in the South Island), while at the tips of the country, it's all about love — the top nickname in both Northland and Southland.

The island features many different types of areas including a tropical resort, a small city, and a dense jungle and all provide plenty of zombies for you to kill with whatever weapon you happen to have handy.

Then it turns out that this monster came to your towns area because it is no longer on the top of the food chain as an even more terrifying monster lurks near a small island which will be your final target.

As a result, they are settling in communities throughout the U.S., from large metropolitan areas such as New York to small cities like Grand Island, Neb..

Whereas in the past publishers invested in whole islands and created impressive builds to attract traffic, they seem to be realising that a small display with the right information in a busy area and the right target audience seems more effective.

Bordered by Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New York, Connecticut is just a train ride away from some of the world's biggest cities, yet most areas maintain a small town sensibility.

The causeway heading into South Hero Island, Vermont, which ranked 10th on LendEDU's list.Vermont is the second least populous state in the U.S., in addition to being the sixth smallest by area.

The smallest and rarest of Greek Molossers, the Ellinikos Poimenikos Booeidon used to be a fairly common farm dog and companion found in rural areas, as well as some islands.

Eradication of cats was possible for various reasons: firstly, it is an island with a very small human population and therefore with a low risk or re-introduction of cats; its size is small (26km2) which helps control and monitoring; and lastly, the vegetation is sparse, with many open areas.

Most valuable was the tissue sample from a 15 - year old Stage - 3 retina with distinct regions of varying disease severity (Fig. 4B): Small islands of relatively normal appearing retina (Fig. 4B1) were surrounded by large areas of advanced retinal degeneration with loss of both rod and cone photoreceptors (Fig. 4B2).

Although you will be situated in a less frequented area of Koh Samui, the island is small enough that the Santiburi Country Club, with it's PGA approved course, is about a thirty minute drive from Baan Sabai.

We rarely visit the areas near downtown San Diego because we prefer the small beach towns along the North Coast of the county, so spending time on Shelter Island was new for both of us.

Small Hope Bay Lodge offers several island and nature tours, providing visitors an opportunity to explore the diverse environment of this Bahamian out island, the fifth largest, and the least developed land mass in the Caribbean and tropical Atlantic area.

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.

The Caribbean is an amazing place to visit, partially because there are so many different islands and so many different cultures in such a relatively small area!

The Hotel Mediterraneo *** is a small and comfortable hotel located in a very central area of the city, just a few meters away the enchanting and historic center of Syracuse, Ortigia island, is simply reachable just walking 4/5 minutes.

Port McNeill provides ferry connection to its neighbouring communities of Alert Bay and Sointula on Cormorant and Malcolm Islands respectively giving visitors the opportunity to explore an abundance of culture within a relatively small, accessible area.

The reality is that Bali is perfectly safe to travel even in case the volcano erupts, except for a very small area around Mount Agung which represents less than 5 % of the land mass of the Island.

You can explore the area by taking one of the island's small boats, and a packed lunch, to one of the many secluded bays.

If you are looking for a casual home, then the Haena and Hanalei areas can provide some great options for a small town island feel.

They can be seen on all areas on Vancouver Island though you will most likely see them from a boat since they seem to hang out on isolated rocks and small islands.

All four types of reefs are represented in the Belizean reef complex; the fringing reef which is attached to an island or the mainland, the barrier reef separated from the mainland by a lagoon, the patch reef consisting of small clusters of reef materials found in the lagoon area, and the circular «atolls,» here found in association with Lighthouse Reef, Turneffe Islands, Glovers Reef and some of the more southern cayes.

Aruba may be a small island, but that does not take away that each area has its own special unique charm.

Having a small amount of rooms over a large area is pretty common for Palawan luxury resorts, especially the private island ones in El Nido.

Aruba is the smallest of the ABC islands — only 120 square miles in area — with Curaçao and Bonaire rounding out the trio.