Sentences with phrase «square km area»

Another, by Forest Research, modelled the impact of trees in a 100 square km area in the East London Green Grid, a major regeneration and development programme.

The Pew Environment Group's Global Ocean Legacy program has set its sights on two further massive protection areas in the near future: they hope to see New Zealand approve a 630,000 square km area in the Kermadec Islands later this year, and Australia protect 900,000 square km in the Coral Sea in 2012.

Not exact matches

The quake was one of the strongest ever to hit the state and prompted its oil and gas regulator, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, to order 37 disposal wells shut in a 725 - square - mile (1,878 - sq - km) area around Pawnee.

It also asked the EPA to help shut disposal wells in a 211 square - mile (546.49 - sq - km) area of Osage County because the OCC lacked jurisdiction there.

The thirty two properties within the Marble Bar paleoplacer gold project cover an area of approximately 1,251 square km in the Nullagine embayment and 554 square km in the Marble Bar subbasin underlain by 2.74 billion year old siliciclastic sedimentary and volcanic rocks belonging to the Fortescue Group, the basal part of the Hamersley Basin located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

The Tamale Metro Assembly is a very big assembly, the biggest in human population in the Northern Region with a population of 293,881 with a total area of 731 km (282 square miles).

Giant reserves of more than 100,000 square km make up about 1 percent of all marine protected areas by number, but account for about 70 percent of the total area protected.

Satellite data for the 12 months through the end of July 2013 showed that 5,891 square km (3,360 square miles) of forest were cleared in the Brazilian Amazon, an area half the size of Puerto Rico.

Despite the increase in 2013, the cleared area is still the second - lowest annual figure since the Brazilian government began tracking deforestation in 2004, when almost 30,000 square km (11,580 square miles) of forest were lost.

The higher resolution was particularly helpful in mountainous areas since the models take an average of the altitude in the grid (25 square km for high resolution, 200 square km for low resolution).

The animal, and some 20 million people live in an area known as Caatinga, a tropical dry forest that once covered 845,000 square km in northeastern brazil that has been reduced in area by 53 percent.

The WWF said it will work with the government of Nepal and local communities in a 9,000 square mile (93,310 square km) region that includes protected areas for tigers, rhinos and elephants in order to stop poaching, increase breeding and to monitor the tiger population.

The combined surface area of the lakes is 94,250 square miles (244,100 km ²)-- larger than the states of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire combined or the provinces of Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador combined.

According to the results, the area covered by carbon - rich frozen ground in the Arctic is expected to shrink by 4m square km for every extra degree that global average surface temperature rises.

Sheikh Nasir Ahmed Graduat, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh e-mail: [email protected] Abstract: With an area of 147,570 square km, Bangladesh is overpopulated with 140 million people.

Extreme Environments 1Markscheme and Feedback1 (a) Estimate the total area of Avalanche Glacier including the Eagle Glacier [2] Accept a range from 3.5 - 5 km squared (b) Locate and identify two features resulting from glacial erosion [2] Note: grid references have been added and are not reprentative of coordinates.

Covering a total area of 1 040 km ² (400 square miles or 257,000 acres), it has numerous freshwater inland lakes, coastal dunes, closed - canopy forests and large open plains.

It is made up of three lochs - Loch Lochy, Loch Oich and Loch Ness - with Loch Ness being by far the largest with a surface area of 56.4 square km (21.8 square miles).

Many shops and restaurants are in the area and Wenceslaw Square is 4 km away.

It has an area of 1,470 square miles (3,800 km2)[1] and encompasses the waters that surround Anacapa, Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, San Miguel and Santa Barbara Islands (five of the eight Channel Islands of California), extending from mean high tide to 6 nautical miles (11 km) offshore around each of the five islands.

The Leizhou Peninsula is the third largest peninsula in China with an area of c. 8,500 square kilometers (3,300 sq mi) located on the southwestern end of Guangdong, with the Gulf of Tonkin to the west and the 30 km wide Qiongzhou Strait to the south, separating the peninsula from Hainan Island.

Most of the area is contained in the Komodo National Park, a 700 square mile (1,126 km) protected area that includes the larger islands of Komodo, Rinca, Gili Mota, Nusa Kode, and Padar.

The island is 19.6 miles / 30 km long, 6 miles / 9 km at its widest point and has an area of about 70 square miles / 184 km ².

Today Chinatown Bangkok or Yaowarat covers a square bounded by Phadung Krung Kasem Canal to the east, the Ong Ang Canal to the west, Luang Road to the north and the Chao Phraya River to the south, an area of about 2 sq km.

One must remember that the Great Barrier Reef covers an enormous area, some 2,575 kms in length and 335,000 square kms!

Declared a National Park in 1982, the Similans are comprised of nine islands in an area of roughly 54 square miles (140 km squared) and running 14 miles (24 km) long from North to South.

Spread across 3.5 square miles (9 sq km) in an area just outside Flores and Santa Elena, the Ixpanpajul Natural Park offers travelers aerial views of the forest canopy.

Byron Shire Map The Byron Shire covers an area of 566 square kilometers, is located at Australia's most eastern-most point and is 180 km south of Brisbane and 800 km north of Sydney and 95 km south of Surfers Paradise, QLD.

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.

If you do decide to rent a car, you can explore even more of the local area, such as Latchi harbour and marina, the Baths of Aphrodite, or the Akamas National Park: 230 square km of green valleys, sandy coves, and beautiful wildlife.

The city of Los Angeles covers an area of 503 square miles (809 km).

To the immediate southwest lies Koh Surin Tai (South Surin Island), which is slightly smaller with an area of 12 square km.

The site covers an area of about 5 miles (8 km) square.

Anjuna Beach located 18 km away from Panaji (the capital of Goa) and it is in the area of five square miles.

In La Coruña, the second largest city in Galicia, NH Atlántico boasts a central location next to Jardines de Méndez Núñez gardens, just 5 minutes from María Pita square and 60 km from Santiago de Compostela.Offering a convenient location, just 5 minutes from Orzán Beach and in front of the brand new La Coruña conference center, this hotel is the best accommodation option for holidaymakers or business travellers.NH Atlántico Hotel features business area with PC, parking area, 24 hours room service, sauna, car rental, babysitting service, bar, laundry and dry cleaning service, safe at front desk, Internet access, medical service, 5 meeting rooms equipped with latest audiovisual technologies, and a restaurant, serving Galician specialities.

Bali is a part of Indonesian archipelago; lying 3.2 km east of Java and 24 west of Lombok, compare with some of the Indonesian archipelago's giant islands, Bali is quite small with an area of 5,632 square kilometers The island is approximately 135 km wide east to west and 90 km north to south.

It is the least densely populated city in the Philippines and the second largest city geographically (after Davao City) with an area of 2,381.02 square km.

The largest known area grazed by a herd is over 100 square km.

The rainforest area logged is still as big in size as some small countries and Brazil's Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira says it was higher than the 1,930 square miles (5,000 sq km) they had been hoping for.

The higher resolution was particularly helpful in mountainous areas since the models take an average of the altitude in the grid (25 square km for high resolution, 200 square km for low resolution).

As such, you would never see evidence of those vents by vertical temperature sampling unless you sampled right on top of one... and with a total of six samples over a century in an area of 231,000 square km...

The ocean area of Earth is 360 million square km.

The team surveyed a part of James Ross Island called Ulu Peninsula, where they closely studied an area of around 600 square km, mapped the distribution of the erratics and took samples.

Area looks at all the square Kilometers (Km ^ 2) with more than 15 % ice in them and adds them up but multiplies the Km ^ 2 by the amount of ice in the square kilometer.

And on 13 February the total area of frozen ocean in the two hemispheres was at its lowest: 16.21 million square kilometres, which is about 2m sq km less than the average global minimum for 1981 to 2010.

Box and Decker (2011) note the loss of area of the largest glaciers in the last decade 1590 square km.

Just divide the volume change by the total ocean surface area, 360 million square km.

The spatial resolution of an average IPCC AR4 climate model is about 55,350 square kilometers, or a square 235 km on a side (the highest resolution models resolve areas as small as 100 km on a side).

Close to a million square km of vegetation showed reduced levels of greenness - four times the 2005 dry - out area.

Each series (a site chronology) consists of multiple trees from a single site (a collection of stands, trees from individual plots) which give a history for a particular area, usually a few km square.