Sentences with phrase «square kilometres on»

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.

Not exact matches

Desmarais also used his fortune to build one of the world's most exclusive golf courses on his sprawling 75 - square - kilometre Sagard estate in the mountainous Charlevoix region of Quebec.

Aboriginal communities in Western Australia's Kimberley region have had their native title rights recognised over 12,050 square kilometre of land on the Dampier Peninsula, including James Price Point.

The suggested site for the 10 - square - kilometre facility is Kitimat, B.C., the would - be last stop on the Northern Gateway pipeline.

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.

TMAC is focused on developing a mine on Hope Bay, a 1,100 - square - kilometre area in Nunavut.

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.

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.

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

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.

Resources industry figures are angry over new Premier Steven Marshall's plans to impose a 10 - year ban on fracking in a 21,000 - square - kilometre region in South Australia's south - east, and say it undermines his mantra that the state is open for business.

Resting 25 m above the Blue Mountain valley floor, walking across the 126 m suspension bridge on a clear day can give you a view of up to 10,000 square kilometres.

[244] Panorama view of Kakum National Park, located in the coastal environs of the Central region on the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean, covers an area of 375 square kilometres (145 sq mi).

A campaign lasting for months in the 1,300 square - kilometre (500 square - mile) forest in northeastern Borno state led to the «final crushing of Boko Haram terrorists in their last enclave in Sambisa Forest» on Thursday, Buhari said in a statement.

«Justice Hassan specifically, ordered Sea Petroleum Oil & Gas Ltd. and its affiliated companies to hand over the company's business, which sits on over 9000 square kilometres of land in the fastest developing area of Lagos State along the Lekki - Epe Expressway,» it said.

With some luck (and money), the ATA will continue its search for extraterrestrial civilizations at least through 2016, when there will be a new, much bigger kid on the block: the $ 2.1 billion Square Kilometre Array, or SKA, a collaboration among 70 organizations in 20 countries.

Adrian Rocha of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and colleagues placed sensors across the 1000 - square - kilometre fire scar left by a blaze in 2007 on the Brooks mountain range in northern Alaska.

There are around 3000 nautiluses living on and around Osprey reef, an area of roughly 195 square kilometres.

According to Lindsay Murray of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food's fisheries laboratory at Burnham - on - Crouch, who is leading the investigation, the surveys have found crabs across more than 100 square kilometres of the Norfolk coast and show that «the bank is part of an important crab fishery and breeding ground».

Typical is a new project, announced by a Norwegian forestry company last month, to plant fast - growing pine and eucalyptus trees on 150 square kilometres of grassy plain in southwest Tanzania.

The satellites give temperature measurements with a spatial resolution of roughly 1 square kilometre, which the team matched up with data from the US Federal Aviation Administration on the exact location of 2358 wind turbines in west - central Texas.

They matched this to data on the location of 2358 wind turbines in west - central Texas, and found that the square kilometre around a wind turbine was on average 0.5 °C warmer than the rest of the region — a difference that was greatest at night.

In the San Francisco Bay area, sea level rise alone could inundate an area of between 50 and 410 square kilometres by 2100, depending both on how much action is taken to limit further global warming and how fast the polar ice sheets melt.

Based on preliminary assessments, the research team suggested M. laterite to be classified as Endangered under the guidelines of the Red List by International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), as the geographic range of the frog is narrow, within an area of 150 square kilometres in southwest India.

Over the past two decades my company has used imaging radar satellites to map oil on the sea surface for 70 million square kilometres of ocean.

On average, each had 1.2 kilometres of tunnels and covered an area of 6919 square metres.

In 1959, the world population of this bird stood at just 26 individuals on Cousin, an island in the Indian Ocean less than a third of a square kilometre in area.

All 38 of China's nuclear tests have been carried out at the remote 100 000 - square - kilometre Lop Nor site on the edge of the vast Taklimakan desert.

Using 1600 detectors spread over 3000 square kilometres, Auger should be able to determine the energies of incoming cosmic rays and shed more light on the Akeno results.

On its own, sea level rise could inundate between 50 and 410 square kilometres of this area by 2100, depending on how much is done to limit further global warming and how fast the polar ice sheets melOn its own, sea level rise could inundate between 50 and 410 square kilometres of this area by 2100, depending on how much is done to limit further global warming and how fast the polar ice sheets melon how much is done to limit further global warming and how fast the polar ice sheets melt.

On any day, about one dust devil pops up per square kilometre of surface, at an average size of 13 metres across (arxiv.org/abs/1708.00484).

These strange colonies were seen on an expedition to Tagoro volcano, near the Canary Islands, in 2014, two years after an eruption reshaped 9 square kilometres of the seabed.

Focusing on plover habitat would preserve 14.46 million years of evolution for each 10,000 square kilometres conserved.

Kima'Kho tuya forms a high relief structure covering 28 square kilometres rising 1,946 metres above sea level on the Kawdy Plateau near Dease Lake.

Outback Australia is home to more species of reptile per square kilometre than anywhere else on the globe.

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.

Researchers used the new survey of the Messak Settafet to estimate that enough stone tools were discarded over the course of human evolution in Africa to build more than one Great Pyramid for every square kilometre of land on the continent.

He currently has thousands of data points feeding him info on his map, but in a 5G world, the network will support about a million sensors per square kilometre.

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.

From design to «metal on the ground» - engineers and scientists behind the Square Kilometre Array are getting ready to hit the construction button, despite a scaling down on design.

Today (23:06:15) is National Women in Engineering Day — a good day on which to write about our most recent «Girls Night Out» at Jodrell Bank — which focused on the engineering of the Square Kilometre Array.

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.

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

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 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.

The temples and towers of the 402 - square - kilometre Angkor site sit on a base of sand, kept firm by a constant supply of groundwater that rises and falls with the seasons, but which is now being used to supply a burgeoning city.

Spicers Peak Lodge is Queensland's highest non-alpine mountain lodge, located on 8000 acres (32 square kilometres) of private conservation land surrounded by the World Heritage - listed Main Range National Park.

This is due to the huge variety of landscapes and micro-climates, with vast mountains, long beaches and green ravines all coming together on this 1,500 square - kilometre landmass.

With villas in Greece available on over 3,000 islands and 750,000 square kilometres of the eastern Mediterranean, you'll never be far from beautiful countryside to explore.

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.