Sentences with phrase «square mile island»

This 3.8 - square mile island is part of the state of Michigan and has evolved from a strategic commercial and military center into a modern resort with...

You won't find any sprawling resorts on this eight square mile island.

With the ruins of an impressive Roman villa, a chair lift to the scenic views of Seggiovia Monte Solaro, and meticulously maintained Villa San Michele, and more, this four square mile island can keep you busy.

The 8.3 - square mile island of South Caicos is a short 25 - minute flight from the main island of Providenciales.

This 75 square mile island has much to offer, but I want to share with you a little town that stole...

Known as the Forbidden Island, Niihau provides its sheep herds with an extremely diverse range across the 72 - square mile island.

Boracay is a ten square miles island right in the heart of the exotic Philippine archipelago, one hour flight away southerly of Manila.

Boracay is a 10 square miles island right in the heart of the exotic Philippine archipelago.

Not exact matches

The uninhabited half - square - mile island, possessing no apparent natural resources, is a bizarre sliver of territory for two countries to fight over.

In June 2012, tech billionaire Larry Ellison purchased 98 % of Lanai, a 141 - square - mile island in Hawaii.

Singapore, the smallest nation in Asia, occupies a 225 - square - mile expanse of swampy, tropical islands — an area about the size of Trenton, New Jersey.

The four artificial islands of the Forest City site cover nearly eight square miles.

It's a 122 - square - mile island, and development is tightly restricted.

«The island is only 37 square miles, so it makes it easier to do business,» Ramchandani remarks.

Since The Bahamas is comprised of 700 individual islands and cays with a total land area of about 5,400 square miles scattered across 100,000 square miles of ocean, it is natural that fish and seafood are very important in the cuisine.

Located on Long Island, 29 miles from Times Square (and from such other nighttime institutions as «21» and the Stork Club), the new track is dedicated to the proposition that the New Yorker and his lady will willingly cover a distance of ground to spend a sporting evening in an atmosphere of nightclub comfort.

Though the 60.6 - square - mile island became part of New York City in 1898, it hasn't ever really seemed to be a part of it.

The Dutch side, with Philipsburg as its capital occupies the southern 17 square miles of this 37 - square - mile island; St. Martin, a French dependency, occupies the northern half.

Antigua, the largest of the British Leeward Islands, is about 14 miles long and 11 miles wide, encompassing 108 square miles.

The nation also includes the tiny (0.6 square mile) uninhabited island of Redonda, now a nature preserve.

Currently about 240 square miles, it covers the entire towns of Southampton, East Hampton and Shelter Island and part of Brookhaven Town, plus seven incorporated villages.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo threatened to sue the EPA if federal officials approved a plan to keep using a 1.5 square - mile dump site between New London and Fishers Island.

The plan that the board approved today, and that Albany will now spend months deliberating on, would fund a new fare payment system to replace the already - obsolete MetroCard; put $ 2.9 billion toward finally finishing the East Side Access project that will allow Long Island Rail Road passengers to disembark in Grand Central; allocate $ 1.5 billion to begin work on the second phase of the Second Avenue Subway, extending it from 96th to 125th streets; and fund countless other nitty - gritty, state - of - good - repair needs across the system's 5,000 - square - mile service area.

Between A.D. 800 and 1500, Angkor's complex canals, roads, irrigated fields, and dense settlements sprawled across more than 1,160 square miles, almost the size of Rhode Island — and far beyond the area protected within the UNESCO World Heritage Site's zone today.

Using echosounders installed on the hull of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ship Nancy Foster, the science team mapped canyons and shelf regions at high resolution over more than 380 square miles (1,000 square kilometers) of seafloor from south of Cape Hatteras to Baltimore Canyon, which runs from offshore North Carolina to the eastern tip of Long Island.

On Tuesday, Massachusettes Governor Deval Patrick announced than a more than 1,160 square mile area off the coast of Rhode Island will be opened up for commercial wind leases.

The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands National Monument spans 140,000 square miles of ocean, island, and reef.

Kiribati took Fiji up on a similar offer, buying 8 square miles of land on one of Fiji's islands.

This one island called Steeple Jason Island has 120,000 blackbird albatross nests on it during the year and about 70 pairs of striated caracaras, on an island that's about 700 hectares [three square misland called Steeple Jason Island has 120,000 blackbird albatross nests on it during the year and about 70 pairs of striated caracaras, on an island that's about 700 hectares [three square mIsland has 120,000 blackbird albatross nests on it during the year and about 70 pairs of striated caracaras, on an island that's about 700 hectares [three square misland that's about 700 hectares [three square miles].

Blue - gray Arctic foxes native to the 40 - square - mile island appear without fear outside home base, a research station run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Luzon is the largest island in the Philippines; at about 40,000 square miles, it's a bit larger than Indiana.

The tank is one of 1,600 spaced out at one - mile intervals over 1,100 square miles of land, an area bigger than Rhode Island.

The hazard area for the launch of Antares is about 1,400 square miles off the coast of Wallops Island along the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

The ZooKeys article describes the first study of the behavior, diet, and conservation status of this flying fox, finding that the Mortlock Islands support a small population of 900 to 1200 bats scattered across a land surface of only 12 km2 (4.6 square miles).

Obama then enlarged the Pacific Remote Islands site to nearly six times its original size in late 2014, to its current 490,000 square miles (Greenwire, Sept. 25, 2014).

Knutie and Clayton say their method might help the endangered mangrove finches, with only 60 cotton dispensers needed to cover the less than half a square mile inhabited by the birds on Isabela Island.

At the time of their designation, the largest of the sites was the 95,000 - square - mile Marianas Trench monument near the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam, an area that has been compared to an underwater Yellowstone and Grand Canyon for its unique geology of hydrothermal vents, mud volcanoes and pools of boiling sulfur.

Roughly 100,000 tourists came through Rapa Nui in 2015, a surfeit of pedestrians for an island totaling only 63 square miles.

By comparison, the Soufrière Hills volcano on Montserrat, a 60 - square - mile island in the Caribbean, has been erupting sporadically since 1995, slowly entombing the lower two - thirds of the island in ash.

Published in the journal Ecology and Evolution, the study includes maps showing where lemurs are likely to seek refuge as temperatures rise and rainfall patterns change across the 225,000 - square - mile island over the next 65 years.

On Anticosti Island, a 3,097 - square - mile expanse of forested terrain off the coast of Quebec, the answer appears to be yes.

In the U.S., in September 2014, President Obama expanded the impressive Pacific Remote Islands National Marine Monument to more than 490,000 square miles.

When Bryan finally reached the site this February, he found that the new island — originally over a tenth of a mile square — had already nearly washed away.

The president more than quadrupled the size of the Papahanaumokuakea (pronounced «Papa - ha - now - moh - koo - ah - kay - ah») Marine National Monument to 582,578 square miles of land and sea in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

President Obama is expanding a national protected marine area of more than 582,000 square miles of land and sea around the Hawaiian islands.

One under Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean is thought to have triggered massive volcanism, spewing lava across 580,000 square miles (1.5 million square km) at the Deccan Plateau region of what is now India about 65 million years ago, coinciding with the end of the Age of Dinosaurs.

The giant ice island is 46 square miles (120 square kilometers), and separated from the terminus of the Petermann Glacier, one of Greenland's largest.

The research team, led by Gregory Asner of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology, used innovative remote sensing technology on aircraft to survey the impact of invasives on more than 220,000 hectares (850 square miles) of rain forest on the island of Hawaii.

Within 50 years, if sea levels continue to rise at the current rate, the ocean will completely swamp the 10 - square - mile island.

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.