Sentences with phrase «square kilometres»

The Kimberley covers an overwhelming 423,000 square kilometres of wilderness.

Originally a terrestrial national park set up to protect the Komodo dragon, over time it expanded to include what lies beneath and it is now a massive terrestrial and marine national park encompassing almost 2,000 square kilometres.

Within five square kilometres of Cairns City you will find luxurious five star hotels, intimate boutique resorts, self contained waterfront holiday apartments, family friendly resorts, budget backpackers and guesthouses, bed and breakfasts, caravan parks, motels and campsites.

Soldiers Point Marina provides the perfect hub for exploring the magnificent waterways and hinterland of Port Stephens — a region covering nearly 1,000 square kilometres of scenic diversity, mild weather and extensive tourist facilities.

Part of the enormous Belize Barrier Reef, and not far from the popular Caye Caulker resort to the north of the country, Hol Chan comprises twenty square kilometres of protected coral reefs, seagrass beds (an important habitat for manatees), and mangrove forest.

The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest reef system and stretches over 300,000 square kilometres (1800 miles).

Madagascar covers almost 600,000 square kilometres (230,000 square miles), making it the world's fourth largest island.

Just because the lush, seafront city of Alcudia is a mere 24 square miles (60 square kilometres) that has no bearing on how much this lovely port and ancient city on the island's nether region, can offer holiday makers.

Bordered by Kakadu National Park, the Arafura Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria, Arnhem Land is a vast, unspoiled wilderness area of more than 97,000 square kilometres (37,452 square miles).

On an island of only 11 square kilometres and a population of 5,000, you're bound to experience local living and a warm welcome.

Just 10 square kilometres in size, the island nonetheless offers several amenities, including a general store on the docks and a post office.

Canada's first National Park now encompasses 6,641 square kilometres of unmatched mountain scenery nestled in the heart of the magnificent Canadian Rockies.

With an area of about 340 square kilometres, it is an idyllic spot for those that adore the outdoors as well as families with children seeking a retreat from the city life.

Numerous biking and hiking trails are scattered throughout the 2.3 square kilometres of mostly single - family, detached homes.

But there are so many variables, so how can we give just one accurate answer to a question that impacts a nation of people across 10 - million square kilometres?

The Russian empire, it is estimated, grew by fifty - five square miles (142 square kilometres) per day after the Romanovs came to the throne in 1613, or 20,000 square miles a year.

It protects over 125 square kilometres of London and over 375,000 properties, historic buildings including the Houses of Parliament, offices, power supplies, tube lines and hospitals to name a few.

The development of the Fishermans Bend Urban Renewal Area precinct will include both a major residential and business area with a proposed density of 32 000 people / square kilometres (equivalent to Manhattan's population density).

Online learning environments have been a game changer for Australian distance educators whose «classrooms» cover thousands of square kilometres, but it's more than just a case of being able to reach isolated areas.

It only has 125 students enrolled, but they're spread over an area of 1.3 million square kilometres - that's roughly twice the size of France.

Australia's tropical savanna is made up of about 1.9 million square kilometres of dense grass and scattered trees that stretch across Northern Australia from Broome to Townsville.

Servicing a population of roughly 5 million occupying a mere 70,000 square kilometres, the Georgian film community stood proud, taking three of the event's most prestigious prizes.

The hundreds of square kilometres contained within amount to nothing more than the time you'll be wasting in your treks across them, right up until you unlock fast travel and forget they were open worlds to begin with.

Paris (French pronunciation: (listen)-RRB- is the capital and most populous city in France, with an administrative - limits area of 105 square kilometres (41 Read our Telegraph Travel expert guide to Paris, including the best places to stay, eat, drink as well as the top attractions to visit, flights and all of

The City of Ottawa is the fourth largest city in Canada with an area 2,760 square kilometres singles.

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Uzbekistan has an area of 447,400 square kilometres (172,700 sq mi).

With 5C of warming (similar to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's RCP8.5 scenario) by 2100, the vast majority of permafrost would disappear, leaving just 0.3 - 3 square kilometres unaffected, say the authors.

This corresponds to over 40 % of today's permafrost area, leaving just over 8m square kilometres intact.

Ice shelves surround 75 % of Antarctica's coastline, and cover an area of over 1.561 million square kilometres (a similar size to the Greenland Ice Sheet).

This encompasses over 2 million square kilometres, three times as large as the nearby Siberian wetlands, which have been considered the primary Northern Hemisphere source of atmospheric methane.

Satellite data records reveal that the worrying loss of hundreds of square kilometres of ice along West Antarctica's coastline has been occurring for decades

Satellites, meanwhile, reveal what look like blisters, as each year more than 1,000 square kilometres of trees are burnt or cut.

On the GBR recent surveys have revealed up to 20,000 square kilometres of deep reef — equal in size to the combined area of all the shallow reefs,» Dr. Bridge says.

At 3.42 million square kilometres, it may still sound large, but this small extent of Arctic sea ice could have profound long - term consequences, and it follows a long trend of low sea ice conditions.

Recent analysis shows that 25 - 50 % of this target (equivalent to 0.9 - 1.85 bn tonnes of carbon per year) could be achieved on the 16 million square kilometres of suitable farmland across the world.

Lead - author Dr Sarah Chadburn of the University of Leeds said: «A lower stabilisation target of 1.5 ºC would save approximately two million square kilometres of permafrost.

They are hoping the seismic data they collect between now and mid-September will support the claim of Denmark and Greenland to 150,000 square kilometres of extra territory extending north from Greenland into the oil and gas - rich Arctic sea floor.

Were it to collide with the planet, it would cause devastation akin to the 1908 Tunguska event that flattened 2000 square kilometres of trees in Siberia.

For forty years, the contractors who ran Hanford dumped their nuclear and chemical waste more or less indiscriminately throughout the site, which covers an area of 1456 square kilometres.

The dust contaminated 2700 square kilometres, home to 41 500 people.

Researchers found that areas within the pandas» habitat, that were exposed to a potential heat stress of up to 30 °C had increased from 332 to 4482 square kilometres over the past 40 years.

The study, published in Nature Climate Change, suggests that nearly 4 million square kilometres of frozen soil — an area larger than India — could be lost for every additional degree of global warming experienced.

The bodies of water, roughly eight and five square kilometres respectively, are not connected to any marine sources or surface meltwater.

The vast tangled mat of white «hair», which has an area of 128,000 square kilometres, roughly the size of Greece, was recently mapped as part of the first comprehensive Census of Marine Life.

Nearly 18 million curies «settled in close proximity to the depository» while the rest was dispersed over 23 000 square kilometres — an area larger than Wales.

The zones cover 250 000 square kilometres in all, an area equal to that of the entire United Kingdom.

Its TRY 2004 building would occupy about 8 square kilometres of land and provide offices and homes for a million people.

To calculate changes in carbon storage they examined 321 forest plots across the Amazon's six million square kilometres, identified and measured 200,000 trees, and recorded tree deaths as well as growth and new trees since the 1980s.

To speed things up, the collaboration plans to nearly quadruple the size of the array to fill about 2,500 square kilometres, a project expected to take three years.