Sentences with phrase «square kilometre»

Over this period, an estimated 480 square kilometres of land have fallen into the sea, and 36 villages have dropped into the sea since Roman times.

This is the oldest natural park in the entire continent and spans 960 square kilometres in area.

The ice rises up like a sheer cliff face — shelf ice is not only several thousand square kilometres large, it is also more than a hundred metres high in many places.

The particle shower can have a «footprint» as large as 40 square kilometres when it hits the ground.

The range area is only around 10,000 square kilometres representing 0.5 % of the total snow leopard global range.

What really matters is the coastal damage, with millions of square kilometres threatened.

They are confined to just 1000 square kilometres of land.

It is approximately 8 square kilometres in area with a permanent population estimated at just 5,000.

The new Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder has 36 antennas, each 12 meters in diameter.

In other words, 35,000 cubic metres of water will no longer be available per square kilometre of land.»

Wikipedia, 2013/05/20, stated that the total installed wind power in Iowa was 5137MW in 2012 (at the same time the total for the whole of Australia was about 2600MW) and that Iowa had the greatest wind power capacity per square kilometre for any US state.

AFP: China's glaciers have shrunk by thousands of square kilometres over the past 30 years as a result of climate change, state - run media reported on Wednesday.

However, it also said the 2C scenario would save more than 200bn cubic metres of water a year and use nearly 150,000 square kilometres less land overall.

The Garbage Patch is an area of 1.6 million square kilometres between Hawaii and California.

SIX years ago, radio astronomers discovered an area of about a million square kilometres on the equator of Mars that does not reflect radar signals.

Hammer holds a strategic tenement position covering approximately 3,200 square kilometres east of Mt Isa and is focussed on discovering large, company - making Ernest Henry - style, high - grade copper - gold deposits.

Taking a conservative estimate of 1 cat per square kilometre across the entire continent would amount to nearly 8 million cats.

The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) will give astronomers an unprecedented look at black holes, the gas clouds from which stars form, and «exotic objects that push the boundaries of our knowledge of the physical laws in the universe,» says astrophysicist Brian Boyle, of Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation.

We empower over 3,000 members to succeed within a jurisdiction that covers approximately 2,500 square kilometres including Hamilton, Burlington, Glanbrook, Grimsby, West Lincoln, Caledonia, Dunnville, Hagersville and other small centres south to Port Maitland on the shores of Lake Erie.

Researchers are now looking back to the history of Larsen A and B to understand what the future might hold for Larsen C, which covers 50,000 square kilometres with ice up to 350 metres thick.

An 87 - square kilometre island located off the coast of Abu Dhabi, Sir Bani Yas features three high - end resorts managed by Anantara Hotels, Resorts & Spas, the prominent Thai - hospitality group.

Pine Valley is a working station property of 1000 square kilometres running Merino sheep.

West Hollywood is a walkable, three square kilometre city located in the heart of Los Angeles, adjacent to Beverly Hills.

There has even been a call for not allowing wind turbines within three kilometres from homes, creating 28 square kilometre exclusion zones; this would probably make wind farms unviable anywhere except the largely uninhabited pastoral districts, the deserts, and off - shore.

The mining activity was proposed for a 65 square kilometre region between 22 and 36 kilometers offshore.

«Eight of the top 10 scoring cities are in Australia and Canada, with population densities of 2.88 and 3.40 people per square kilometres respectively.»

With one meter of sea level rise, how many square kilometres of land in the City of Vancouver will be in the flood plain?

LONDON, 9 June, 2016 − The cover of frozen water in the Arctic last month fell to more than 580,000 square kilometres below the previous record for May, set in 2004.

Al Maha Desert Resort is an idyllic, exclusive oasis, set within a 25 - square kilometre desert conservation reserve.

The private aircraft awaits for another remarkable flight over Muloorina Station concluding at Arkaroola, a private 610 square kilometre wilderness sanctuary.

The area in question is around 48,000 square kilometres south of James Bay and west of the border between Quebec and Ontario.

Take an Arid Recovery tag - a-long tour to an 86 square kilometre reserve, which uses a unique feral proof fence design to protect a patch of desert and restore it to pre - European condition.

The underwriting news coincided with an announcement that King River had now pegged a total of 3,000 square kilometres along trend from its remarkable Mt Remarkable gold discovery.

The Red Bore Project is a two square kilometre granted mining licence ML 52/597 located in the Doolgunna Region of the Murchison mineral field approximately 900 km NNE of Perth in Western Australia.

The tenement covers 83 square kilometres encompassing approximately 15 kilometres in strike length of the Jenkins Fault Zone, a major crustal feature that is considered to be a significant influence on the origins and emplacement of the DeGrussa mineralisation.

I was gobsmacked at what they could build on one square kilometre back in the 2nd century.

The iconic Australian cattle company has stations covering an area almost the size of Austria, or 80,000 square kilometres stretching across four states and territories.

Automated materials handling solutions specialist TGW Logistics has completed a major milestone in the development of a huge logistics centre being built for Swiss food company Coop on a 110,000 square kilometre site in Schafisheim — one of the largest construction sites in Switzerland.

BASF is one of the biggest chemical companies in the world and operations in Germany are concentrated in this one site, 7 square kilometres entirely composed of interlinked factories, eliminating the need for storage of intermediates.

That fits with analysis of sea - floor sediments, which suggests that a dead zone of around 600 square kilometres formed here about 40,000 years ago.

Astronomy has been another field of growth in South Africa, and Pandor said the country was thrilled to be chosen as one of the sites for the massive Square Kilometre Array radio telescope project.

Measuring the atomic hydrogen signal emitted by distant galaxies is one of the main scientific drivers behind the billion dollar Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project, for which technology demonstrators like the Australian SKA Pathfinder are under construction.

But since then, says Lenton, the difference between winter and summer ice cover has been a million square kilometres greater than it was before, as a result of unprecedented summer melting.

Great Barrier Reef Area: 20,055 square kilometres What constitutes an organism?

The Sungazer (Smaug giganteus), a dragon - like lizard species endemic to the Highveld regions of South Africa, is facing an assault on two fronts as farming and industrialisation encroaches on its natural habitat — which already consist of only a several hundred square kilometres globally — while the illegal global pet trade is adding pressure on pushing the species into extinction.

Chang says it would cost about $ 20 million, a tiny fraction of the $ 2 billion radio astronomers want for the proposed Square Kilometre Array (SKA) of radio telescopes, which aims to trace large - scale structure by locating individual galaxies.