Sentences with phrase «southward toward»

There are miles and miles of beautiful coastline with rocky crags and sandy coves that extend from Agujitas Bay, where the village of Drake is located southward toward the boundary of Corcovado National Park about 12 miles to the south.

Not very long ago, we bid farewell to Portland and steered a packed - to - the - ceiling U-Haul truck southward toward a very uncertain future.

Apparently the reason for the disappearance was an anomalous weather system which generated a strong jet of surface winds blowing straight over the pole southward toward the Atlantic ocean, a «Polar Express».

All told, as warm summers have reached farther down from the bottom of South America into the northernmost section of the Antarctic Peninsula, four ice shelves on the eastern side of the peninsula, including Larsen A, have collapsed in a striking pattern from the northern tip southward toward the Antarctic mainland.

Not exact matches

Significantly, by far the largest proportion of those who commuted that distance (17,029 out of 69,306 residents) did so southward, toward the Big Apple.

The legendary limits of the Terra Australis of ancient and medieval cartographers, whose northerly coast was represented in art in the time of Ptolemy as extending eastward from Southern Africa toward China and inclosing the Indian Ocean, began to recede to the southward on the map of the world in the generation which produced Columbus, da Gama, and Magellan and disclosed America, the route to the Indies, and the circumnavigation of the globe.

The river swelled as it rushed southward on the continent's downward slope, toward the depression in the planet that would become known as the Gulf of Mexico.

Migration This seabird is not recognized as the migratory bird, however the northern birds may move southward during the winter season toward ice - free areas.

Due to ocean and wind currents and differences in geography, weather conditions are not exactly the same in Coron and El Nido, toward the northern tip of the province, as they are in Puerto Princesa, the capital city of the province located about 300 km southward.

(Since then, Chukchi froze over and Bering Sea ice has started to spread rapidly southward) 2) Persistent Easterly winds around Svalbard (on the NE sides of multiple very deep Hudson Bay Lows), which have repeatedly compressed the ice edge westward toward Greenland.

«The anomalous atmospheric circulation moves the Pacific storm track eastward and southward, steering more storms toward southwestern North America, including central and southern California,» explained Jong, whose findings are published in Environmental Research Letters (ERL).

Some of the warm water would be subducted by Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation / Thermohaline Circulation, some would be carried by ocean currents into the Arctic Ocean where it would melt sea ice, and the remainder would be spun southward by the North Atlantic gyre toward the tropics so it could be warmed more by the effects of the slower - than - normal trade winds.

The overturning circulation pushes water through the Atlantic Basin, distributing heat as it moves warmer surface water from the tropics toward Greenland and the high northern latitudes and carries colder, deeper water from the North Atlantic southward.

This mass of air has been pushed southward by a warmer, high - pressure system that moved north and east toward Alaska from the Pacific, Weber told OurAmazingPlanet.