Sentences with phrase «sq miles»

It is a circular, deep depression in the center of more than 75 sq miles of shallow, blue - green water.

Or are you talking about using SQ miles for Star Alliance awards on other Star Alliance airlines?

@wco81 — you can use sq miles for star alliance awards on their partners, but they give extra availability to their own members for their own singapore flights

Luckily, there were still Standard Awards (now called Advantage awards) for that date, so I poured Chase Ultimate Rewards and Amex Membership Rewards into my Singapore account and changed our flight to SQ221 for 70,000 additional SQ miles per passenger.

Since SQ miles expire, keeping miles tied up there may not be the best way to go.

Once again the politico's fail to learn from past mistakes (the entire history of the sea is one mismanagement after another), ignoring no only the impact on bird life but the impending ecological disaster of exposing a 600 sq mile alkali bed to the high winds of the area (think of salt blowing all over those green golf courses in Palm Springs, only 30 miles away).

More than 7,000 of the evacuees were in Karangasem, the 325 sq mile district surrounding the volcano that is home to about 408,000 people.

Only transfer when you see availability as SQ miles do expire.

When Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo landed in what is now San Diego Bay in 1542 and claimed it for the Spanish, he took the first steps in establishing the birthplace of California — a city that today sprawls across more than 400 sq miles right by the border with Mexico.

RE: SQ miles expiration: Must the trip commence (or be completed) within 3 yrs of earning the miles used?

We're told that the North Pole is melting, more and more is going each year, with 2007's melt meaning some 2m sq miles less than 2003

It was a nice 3000 sq ft house on a 2 acre wooded lot across the street from a 30 sq mile recreational reservoir where lake frontage homes were listed at $ 500,000 and up.

The monument was first established 10 years ago by former Republican President George W. Bush, who created the world's largest marine reserve at the time, protecting close to 140,000 sq miles of ocean around the Hawaiian archipelago and inspiring a series of similar projects around the world.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- U.S. President Barack Obama will dramatically expand the Papahnaumokukea Marine National Monument off the coast of Hawaii on Friday, the White House said, an action that will ban commercial fishing from more than 582,500 sq miles (1.5 million sq km) of the Pacific Ocean.

The massive hydrocarbon lake has an area of 400,000 sq km (154,000 sq miles) and is believed to be as much as 160 meters (525 feet) deep.

According to the paper published in the journal Science Advances, the newly discovered 3,600 sq mile (9,300 sq km) coral reef system contains over 73 species of fish, 60 species of sponges, spiny lobsters and other forms of reef life.

«Coastal areas were also analysed, and to the scientists» surprise, coastlines had gained more land — 33,700 sq km (13,000 sq miles)-- than they had been lost to water (20,100 sq km or 7,800 sq miles).

The eruptions were detected in the moon's southern hemisphere, with the brightest of the two, located at the Rarog Patera caldera, estimated to have created a 50 sq mile (130 sq km) lava flow measuring 10 m (30 ft) in depth.

This rescue covers an area of 400 sq miles and usually has up to 500 animals on - site waiting for their special someone.

The pristine waters around the islands host the largest coral reef system in the South Pacific - which spans almost 4,000 sq miles - and is a paradise for scuba divers and snorkelers alike.

Area: 430 sq km (166 sq miles): 21 miles long (34 km) and 14 miles (23 km) wide.

Its massive 761,606 sq miles (1,972,550 sq km) makes it the fifth largest country by area in both North and South America combined and the 14th largest in the world!

It's also very, very big - 500 sq miles to be exact.

I also thought that this would be a great time to park some SQ miles for use on United's transcontinental flights since a business class EWR - LAX flight is just 20,000 SQ miles compared to 32.500 United miles.

Manchester — Munich Los Angeles — Tokyo (A380) San Francisco — Seoul San Francisco — Hong Kong (A380 until March 24, 2013) Houston — Moscow New York — Frankfurt (A380 resumes on March 25, 2013) Sao Paulo — Barcelona (no fuel surcharge from Brazil, and only 59K SQ miles one - way for First) Dubai — Cairo

Tikal --- the city has been completely mapped and covers an area greater than 16 square kilometers (6.2 sq miles) that includes about

I booked these at the saver level for 80,000 SQ miles each before I even found out about the new suites.

(Especially for those of us who may not be able to amass the SQ miles, even with transfers from Chase, for a desired trips within 3 yrs from the starting gun.)

Maui Villa Rentals Maui is the second largest of the Hawaiian Islands with a land area of 729 sq miles.

I generally discourage transferring Starpoints to SQ miles because Starpoints are much harder to earn in Singapore than SQ miles (there's no co-branded SPG credit card in Singapore, for example), but if you're just short of miles you need for an award ticket this may be a viable option

It is home to the world's richest reefs and dive sites, and they are spread over huge distances — the region sprawls over 4.6 million hectares (17,000 sq miles).

Special exhibitions in 2016 included Parr's documentary photographs of West Yorkshire's rhubarb triangle, the 23 sq km (9 sq mile) area between Wakefield, Morley and Rothwell famous for producing early forced rhubarb.

The easy to read map covers about 10 million sq km (3.8 million sq miles) of the red planet's surface, or about 7 %.

So they're planning to shade 12.5 sq miles of land and the environmentalists are going to sit by and allow the ecosystem for some rare plant or creature to be irretrievably altered?

At 2.3 sq miles (1472 acres) for 50,000 people, i.e.,.03 acres / person total, or 21K people / square mile (compared they won't be growing all their own food, although it is certainly great to see them integrate some greenhouses for recycling.

Coastal areas were also analysed, and to the scientists surprise, coastlines had gained more land — 33,700 sq km (13,000 sq miles)-- than they had been lost to water (20,100 sq km or 7,800 sq miles).

By comparison, this was 590,000 sq km (228,000 sq miles) below the average for the years 1979 to 2000, and 730,000 sq km (282,000 sq miles) above the record low of 2006.