Sentences with phrase «square kilometres large»

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 area of its sea ice is a million square kilometres larger than the highest value ever recorded in the Arctic.

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Calgary, however, is even larger and more sprawling — in 2011, it was 824 square kilometres — and Toronto 620.)

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.

However, the latest estimate of its size, published Thursday, is between four and 16 times larger than previous reports: a whopping 1.6 million square kilometres, or 617,763 square miles.

These conditions introduced in 1990 are largely arbitrary, allowing the 50 percent deviation for constituencies which exceed 20,000 square kilometres, are in excess of 150 kilometres away from the Legislative Assembly Building, include no town larger than 8,000 people (the original bill required no town larger than 4,000 people), include an Indian reserve or Métis settlement and share a border with the provincial boundary.

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.

Turkana is the largest county in Kenya with an area of nearly 77,000 square kilometres.

The West Pennine Moors is the largest new site of special scientific interest (SSSI) notified by Natural England (NE) since 2004, covering a total of 76 square kilometres between Chorley, Blackburn, Bolton and Haslingden in Lancashire and Greater Manchester.

Covering about 70,000 square kilometres, the Niger Delta region is home to one of the largest wetlands in the world and Africa's largest delta.

But the real debut for this technology is likely to be the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the world's largest radio telescope, whose thousands of antennas will be strewn across the southern hemisphere (New Scientist, 2 June, p 4).

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

The 45,000 - square - kilometre lake would be one of the world's largest lakes if it existed today, and it was in the right place at the right time for at least one of two key migrations.

Today, two of these regions, now separated by the Indian Ocean, are vying to host the Square Kilometre Array, the largest telescope ever conceived.

«Big science needs a lot of compute power — right now we're designing systems to manage data for several large facilities around the world and the next generation of radio telescopes, including China's 500m radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array and the SKA's pathfinder telescopes that are already up and running in outback Western Australia.»

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.

They arbitrarily divided the planet into cells of 1 degree of latitude by 1 degree of longitude — squares roughly 80 kilometres to a side at middle latitudes, although much larger near the equator.

Tomorrow, researchers and engineers with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA)-- to be the largest radio telescope in the world — will inaugurate the dish at a test site in Shijiazhuang, China.

The Australian SKA Pathfinder telescope (ASKAP), a precursor to the much larger Square Kilometre Array (SKA) which will begin construction later this decade, today released its first images of the southern sky.

Beginning in 2016, an additional 60 dishes will be erected as ASKAP is expanded to become part of what will be the world's largest and most sensitive radio telescope — the Square Kilometre Array (SKA).

To test their idea, the team recorded 14 silvereye (Zosterops lateralis) populations over 1 million square kilometres of east - coast Australia, making this the largest study, in terms of area, of its kind.

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 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.

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.

Also, the Square Kilometre Array SKA, the largest - ever radio telescope being built in South Africa and Australia, will look for characteristic helium radiation from the very early universe that is expected to be found around primordial black holes.

SKA Organisation The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Organisation will build the world's largest radio telescope.

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.

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

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

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

Great Keppel island (pictured left) is the largest of the eighteen islands in the Keppel Group, and covers an area of more than 14.5 square kilometres.

At 105 square kilometres, Ko Kut is a large, mountainous island set to the south of Ko Chang and Ko Mak in the eastern Gulf of Thailand, some 50 kilometres due west of both Thai and Cambodian mainland.

Kangaroo Island is the third largest island off the coast of Australia and covers an area of 4,500 square kilometres and is renowned for its spectacular scenery and abundance of unique flora and fauna.

The Island is around 120 kilometres long and 24 kilometres wide and its main claim to fame is that it is the world's largest sand island having an area of 1840 square kilometres.

It has a land area of 80.763 square kilometres (31.183 sq mi), the 12th - largest island in Mexico.

The larger eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality is some 2 300 square kilometres in area and has a total population of around 3.5 million folk.

Guided day trips to the Kruger National Park: The largest game reserve in South Africa, the Kruger National Park is nearly 2 million hectares of land that stretch for 20 000 square kilometres, given over to an almost indescribable wildlife experience.

On the boundary of the Banff and Jasper National Parks is the Columbia Icefield, one of the largest accumulations of ice and snow south of the Arctic Circle, covering an area of nearly 325 square kilometres.

At 1,000 acres (around 4 square kilometres) in size, Stanley Park is larger than New York's Central Park - and is home to over half a million trees.

Sao Miguel, the largest island in the Portuguese Azores, measures just over seven hundred squared - kilometres in the North Atlantic.

Kangaroo Island is Australia's third largest island covering some 4,500 square kilometres of rugged coastal scenery, pristine beaches, rivers and historic towns.

It is home to the largest range of plants and animals on earth, and all are found within the largest chunk of rainforest in Australia - an area spanning approximately 1200 square kilometres.

São Miguel is not a large island, measuring 62.1 km in length and 15.8 km in width at its widest point, and with a total area of 744.7 square kilometres.

This neighbourhood is not very large as it covers only one square kilometre, but is especially renowned for housing two of the most prominent shopping malls in Manila: SM Megamall and Shangri - La Plaza.

Lake Eyre North which covers 8,430 square kilometres, is 144 kilometres long and 77 kilometres wide is by far the larger of the two lakes.

William Creek is the smallest town in Australia and is located on the world's largest cattle station, Anna Creek Station, which is 32,500 square kilometres.

The most important claim to fame for William Creek is that it's the smallest town in Australia and is located on the world's largest cattle station, Anna Creek Station, which is 32,500 square kilometres.

Lake Eyre North cover 8,430 square kilometres, is 144 kilometres long and 77 kilometres wide, and is by far the larger of the two lakes.