Sentences with phrase «small island home»

We recently told readers about the world's first climate change refugees - the residents of Carteret Islands - who will soon see their small island home

Just three hours south of Rio de Janiero, Ilha Grande is a small island home to the jaw - achingly beautiful Praia de Lopes Mendes.

Not exact matches

Irma has ravaged a series of small islands in the northeast Caribbean, including Barbuda, Saint Martin and the British and U.S. Virgin Islands, ripping down trees and flattening homes and hosislands in the northeast Caribbean, including Barbuda, Saint Martin and the British and U.S. Virgin Islands, ripping down trees and flattening homes and hosIslands, ripping down trees and flattening homes and hospitals.

Summer home of Dean Kamen, the man who invented the Segway, North Dumpling Island is a small piece of land off the coast of Connecticut.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras visits the holiday island in northern Greece on Monday, Sept. 12, 2016 where a state of emergency has been declared as a forest fire burns out of control for a third day, gutting homes and small farms.

Reached at a motor home park in Providence, Rhode Island, Store spoke of the surge of support he's seen in recent months — the 60 like - minded people (including someone who works for Homeland Security, he boasted) who joined his small crew on the Mall in Washington, and the hundreds who gathered in Times Square in New York.

Edited by Molly S. Wales — Photos by Dry Creek Kitchen Recipes: Parsley and Garlic Crusted Quailwith Heirloom Tomatoes Marinated Vegetables for the Grill Renowned chef Mark Purdy's education began early, on the small island of Nantucket where he and his brother caught blue fish at the beach down the street from their summer home.

Apart from the handful who were born in Ashland, they'd moved from Homer or Chicago or Coronado Island, in the first or third or ninth grade, reared in trailers or at friends» houses or in homes with hot tubs, the sons of teachers and attorneys and single mothers who had chosen to go back - to - the - land in a small town: population 15,000, liberal and rural, five crowded elementary schools.

Keeping everybody within your group happy is certainly a priority on any vacation, and whether you're staying on Lanai or are hoping to make a day trip from your home at other Hawaii hotels, finding ways to stuff your itinerary full with family - friendly activities is by no means difficult on this small but dynamic island!

I'm planning to go all natural, I really wanted a home birth, but we live on a smaller rural island quite a distance from a hospital and midwives will not attend births where we live.

But ours is a small island with ever - diminishing space and where green belt land has been sacrificed - such as in the East Midlands - the results have done nothing for economic growth or home affordability.

«Lives have been lost, homes and property destroyed, and businesses large and small remain paralyzed across New York City, Long Island, the Hudson Valley and the greater metropolitan region.»

To do it, they set out for the Caribbean island of Trinidad, home of a small freshwater fish called the Trinidadian guppy.

The creature evolved its small size, they surmised, as a response to the limited resources available on its island home — a phenomenon that had previously been documented in other mammals, but never humans.

Also, since small islands seldom support rattlesnakes, coyotes or other predators of birds, they become home to large seabird colonies.

But that's not the conclusion suggested by new data from Finland's Aland Islands, home to a Glanville fritillary butterfly «metapopulation» — many small, fragmented populations transiently connected when individuals fly between them.

Singapore — a small place with great aspirations — is an island city - state that is home to some 4 million people.

From there we voyage northwest to a small cluster of islands that have no human inhabitants but are home to sea lions, Humboldt penguins and hundreds of thousands of seabirds, including pelicans, cormorants, Inca terns and Peruvian boobies.

If the scientists of the IPCC are right, the inhabitants of large parts of Bangladesh face the loss of their homes and livelihoods, and the inhabitants of small island states face the loss of their countries.

The storm surge breached the embankments surrounding a small island that was home to 10,000 families, turning the land into a muddy hell.

On Koram — the more densely populated island, home to 80 macaques compared with NomSao's nine — Luncz's group saw not only smaller oysters and snails, but also fewer of each species.

It feels more quiet, more isolated — while on Maui, you could almost wave to someone on the Big Island on a clear day, whereas there's only one small island visible from Kauai, a remote outpost home to a few hundred former farmworkers, with no stores and no commercial transit options to get Island on a clear day, whereas there's only one small island visible from Kauai, a remote outpost home to a few hundred former farmworkers, with no stores and no commercial transit options to get island visible from Kauai, a remote outpost home to a few hundred former farmworkers, with no stores and no commercial transit options to get there.

On the fictional island of Toromi, Tai's adventure will take him across all four corners of the isle in search of adventure and tackling a small number of dungeons that would feel right at home in a portable Zelda title.

The small number of students and the isolation on their island home on the Outer Banks foster a close relationship between the school and community.

The small number of students and their isolation on their island home on the Outer Banks foster a close relationship between the school and community.

«Somewhere in the South Pelagic Ocean,» a tidal wave wipes out the population of a small island — except for Mau, who was paddling his dugout canoe home after a month spent alone, preparing to become a man.

Although the site is small, it's interesting to see the only standing plantation home left on the island.

Ernest Hemingway made his home on a small island off Key West, Florida.

Christa then returned to her home state to complete a small animal internship at Long Island Veterinary Specialists (LIVS) where her love of Ophthalmology began.

Tashiro - jima is a small island in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, that's home to more cats than people.

It encompasses Blackfish Sound, home to countless small islands including Hanson Island, the base for the Robson Bight (Michael Bigg) Ecological Reserve, established to provide a sanctuary for Orcas.

Home ownership within the Sailrock South Caicos community offers a small island feel, flexibility and independence of being able to build a villa among a low - density, naturally preserved environment.

The islands and small islets close to the camp are home to numerous sea birds, bald eagles, and seals.

Crete: The largest of the Greek islands, Crete is home to four smaller regions with historical architecture, beaches, and designer shops.

Visit Home Island, where a small, unique indigenous population of about 450 Cocos Malay people live.

In this video travel guide I travel around the Yucatan Peninsula, including taking a boat to Isla Mujeres (the small island just off the coast of Cancun) for some snorkeling, visiting the market at Parque Palapas in downtown Cancun for some tasty snacks, and exploring Coba, the former Mayan city, which is home to the Nohoch Mul pyramid, the tallest temple in the region that you're allowed to climb.

Two hundred miles east of this giddying street, near the Cambodian border, lies the small island of Koh Kood, home to rainforest, coconut and rubber plantations, sleepy fishing villages, and fewer than 2,000 people.

In this travel video guide to Cancun, I travel around Cancun and the Yucatan Peninsula, including taking a boat to Isla Mujeres (the small island just off the coast of Cancun) for some snorkeling, visiting the market at Parque Palapas in downtown Cancun for some tasty snacks, and exploring Coba, the former Mayan city, which is home to the Nohoch Mul pyramid, the tallest temple in the region that you're allowed to climb.

A small, flat island in the North Sea, Smøla is home to a fishing community of about 2,100.

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.

The living corals are home to an astounding diversity of large and small marine life including the rare Frog fish, Lion Fish, Leaf Fish, banded sea krait and Olive Ridley while easy trails crisscross the forested island interior, good for a 20 - minute nature stroll.

The BVI's are known for being a playground of the rich and famous — Richard Branson's Necker Island is here, and Samuel L Jackson has a home on Virgin Gorda — with yachts big and small docking at its many picturesque coves.

It was able to withstand better than smaller islands due to higher elevation and more sturdy buildings however many people still lost their lives as well as families losing homes and businesses in the monster wave.

The municipality lies along the northern coast of the island between Lacco Ameno and Ischia Porto and is home to the smaller villages of Perrone, Castiglione, Piazza Bagni, La Rita, La Sentinella and Piazza Maio.

Opposite Koh Adang, Rawi sports a similarly rugged landscape, if on a marginally smaller and flatter scale, but is home to some of the most incredible and deserted beaches to be found on the Satun islands.

Home to the largest Irish bar on the smallest island in the world, an authentic Japanese sushi restaurant, aturtle Hutchery, ominous sounding dive site like Shark Point, Bio Rock reef regeneration projects, and miles and miles of white sandy beaches, Lombok's Gili Islands

Huts and small homes have been built onto every available square foot of the island.

The small medieval fishing port of Erbalunga on the eastern side is often described as one of the beautiful spots on the island, and it is home to many excellent restaurants which are very reasonably priced.

Small, pear - shaped and known as the Island Born of Fire, Camiguin is home to the spectacular White Island beach, a Tippex - white sandbar with views of two volcanoes, Mt Hibok - Hibok and Mt Vulcan.

Kodiak Island is home to the largest grizzly bears in the world, and this small group trip offers fabulous opportunities to view them gorging on the salmon that swim up the rivers to spawn.