Sentences with phrase «small islands lie»

The second largest barrier reef and several small islands lie off the coast, offering fantastic diving.

Koh Bon (Bon Island) is a small island lying some two kilometres off the beach of Rawai on the southeastern coast of Phuket.

This small island lies to the west of Flores and to the east of Sumbawa Island.

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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.

«We want that to accelerate and make sure that the bigger countries are more serious about this and have in place mechanisms, especially when disaster strikes small islands,» Thoriq Ibrahim, environment and energy minister for the low - lying Maldives and chairman of the AOSIS, told E&E News recently.

People living on smaller, lower - lying islands could then be relocated to more flood - resistant ones when needed.

Halfway between Hawaii and American Samoa lies a group of small islands and inlets.

Since 1992, the UN recognizes a distinct group of fifty developing, low - lying coastal countries known as Small Islands Developing States (SIDS).

«Many parts of the coast can, with forward planning, adapt to sea - level rise, but we need to better understand environments that will struggle to adapt, such as developing countries with large low - lying river deltas sensitive to salinisation, or coral reefs and particularly small, remote islands or poorer communities,» said Dr Brown.

For example, in the Maldives, many small, remote low - lying islands are at risk from climate change and will struggle to adapt.

The nine major Azorean islands and the eight small Formigas extend for more than 600 km (373 mi) and lie in a northwest - southeast direction.

«The Walk,» Zemeckis» account of Phillippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the Twin Towers of the old World Trade Center, would seem to be the ultimate Zemeckis set piece, rivaling the awesomeness of the plane crash and island sequences of «Cast Away,» the upside - down jet maneuver in «Flight,» the intergalactic wormhole trips in «Contact,» and the small - scaled relentlessness of the suspense sequences in his under - appreciated 2000 thriller «What Lies Beneath» (which wrung tremendous excitement from the question of whether a nearly paralyzed woman could use her big toe to remove the stopper from a bathtub drain).

In our modern times this small island which lies 30 miles off of the coast of Cape Cod is mostly known...

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.

Santa Barbara lies much further south than the other four northern Channel Islands and is the smallest, measuring just one square mile.

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.

Right in the middle of the small island of the Gilis, Gili Air, lies the beautiful property of Slow.

The Aegean Islands are a group of Greek territories that lie in the Aegean Sea mostly off the Turkish coast and include Lesbos, the largest of the group and the third largest Greek island, Thassos, Samos, Chios, Ikaria, Lemnos and Samothrace as well as some smaller iIslands are a group of Greek territories that lie in the Aegean Sea mostly off the Turkish coast and include Lesbos, the largest of the group and the third largest Greek island, Thassos, Samos, Chios, Ikaria, Lemnos and Samothrace as well as some smaller islandsislands.

Just across from Banul Beach, lies the small CYC island.

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.

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

Many of the small islands, known as «cayes,» that lie off the coast of the Belizean mainland have their own coral reefs, with spectacular underwater gardens teeming with sea life of all types.

The Duff Islands are a small island group lying to the northeast of the Santa Cruz Islands in the Solomon Islands province of Temotu.

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 IIsland (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 IIsland 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 Iisland of 24 square kilometres (9.3 sq mi) which lies in the centre of the Galápagos archipelago, to the south east of Santa Cruz IslandIsland.

The small Diego Ramírez Islands lie about 100 kilometres (62 mi) south - southwest of Cape Horn.

The ocean waves and winds are buffered by the small island of Isla Mujeres which lies off the coast.

This beach lies on the western end of Cayo Largo, a small island off the country's southeastern coast.

Kandui Resort lies on a small, idyllic tropical island and consists of eight «umas» that host up to a maximum of 18 persons at a time.

Serangan is a small island that lies off the Balinese coastline just south of Sanur and has long played an important role in local religious history.

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.

Kandui lies on a small, idyllic tropical island and consists of eight «umas» that host up to only 18 people at a time.

PHOTO GALLERY: Caye Caulker — Belize see photos of Caye Caulker here Caye Caulker is a small, beautiful laid - back island lying within the 185 - mile - long Belizean Barrier Reef.

A short boat ride south of Amed lies the small island of Gili Selang.

Or venture out in a sea kayak to explore the «hongs» of Phang Nga, small natural rooms that lie in some of the bay's iconic limestone islands.

About 500 meters off the coast of the town lies the small island of «Isla Capitan.»

If you are staying at Koh Mak Resort or Cococape then you'll have Koh Kham, with it's small white sand beach and black volcanic rocks, about 1 km away and the smaller island of Koh Pee also lies within easy reach.

Two small islands, named «Song Saa» or the «Sweethearts» lie like ink droplets in the Koh Rong Archipelago.

Hai Tide Huts in Nusa Lembongan Hai Tide Beach Resort is located on Nusa Lembongan (Lembongan Island), one of three small offshore islands lying south east of Bali.

Stewart Island - Stewart, or Ba Wei, Island lies north west of Cavern Island in the Mergui Archipelago and its main feature from a diving point of view is a smaller islet at its southern end with a spectacular large hole in it that makes for great photo opportunities, even above the water.

Hai Tide Beach Resort is located on Nusa Lembongan (Lembongan Island), one of three small offshore islands lying south east of Bali.

Inbetween the islands of Bali and Lombok in the Badung Strait lies 3 smaller islands called Nusa Lembongan, Ceningan and Penida.

In between the islands of Bali and Lombok in the Badung Strait lies 3 smaller islands called Nusa Lembongan, Ceningan and Penida.

Caye Caulker is a small, beautiful laid - back island lying within the 185 - mile - long Belizean Barrier Reef.

As you start to head down the hillside you'll see the viewpoint with picture postcard panorama along the length of the beach and south towards the small islands that lie off the west coast of Koh Chang.

It's one of the postcard views of the island and a great spot to watch the sunset over the small islands that lie just offshore.

The Tunku Abdul Rahman National Park is a cluster of small islands that lie within 10 minutes by boat of each other.

Gazebo Meno Hotel lies on Gili Meno, a small island, around an hour and thirty minutes from Mataram Airport of Lombok.

On the western coast of Mauritius, an island that lies like a jewel on the glassy belt of the Indian Ocean, is nestled Flic en Flac, a small town that emerged 20 years ago from a sleepy fishing village near a beautiful beach.

Originally a small fishing town, it lies south of the island and now plays host to a variety of cafés, nightclubs and bars.

The smallest of a trio of craggy limestone islands that lie off Bali's southeastern coast, Nusa Ceningan is wedged between increasingly popular Nusa Lembongan and considerably larger but sparsely populated Nusa Penida.