Sentences with phrase «square miles around»

This city spreads over 3 square miles around a bend in the Pearl River, and is home to over 1,500 residents.

These permanently frozen areas cover 625,000 square miles around the Arctic Circle — and as you read this, they are melting.

Each nuclear power station that fails due to some unplanned - for event and lays waste to hundreds of square miles around it is another nail in the coffin of nuclear energy.

The catastrophe created a living laboratory, particularly in the 1,100 square miles around the site, known as the exclusion zone.

Visitors to the NRAO can see the scopes, stroll the parklike grounds and learn about the pioneers of radio astronomy, but they can't use a cell phone — 13,000 square miles around the installation are a designated National Radio Quiet Zone to minimize interference with ongoing data collection.

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.

McAllen's population numbers around 135,000, and its population density is the second highest among our featured cities, at 2,776 residents per square mile.

Politicians in Lebanon say around 115 square miles of land between the two countries is currently controlled by IS.

His introduction to hunting was one of those Kansas coyote drives — farmers gathered around the perimeter of a mile - square section and working inward, shooting jack rabbits on the way to confuse the coyotes.

Within one square mile, there are around 2,600 private landlords.

Around the same time, volcanoes a million times bigger than Mount Saint Helens erupted, spewing enormous clouds of dust and gas into the sky and covering the ground with 2 million square miles of molten lava.

I mean even without that 7 million square miles of frozen sea ice around it, you could fit the United States in Antarctica very easily, including Alaska.

Shortly after the accident, needles on pine trees in a 1.5 - square - mile area around the crippled nuclear plant turned red.

Subsequent field surveys of more than 16 square miles of Big Woods forest around the area in which observers initially saw the bird failed to turn up any occupied roost holes.

Its pedestrian - friendly, high - density neighborhoods (14,000 people per square mile) are clustered around high - rises, multifamily dwellings, restaurants, groceries, shops and pocket parks, and have wide sidewalks that encourage walking and short blocks that slow traffic.

Lightning is blamed for setting off the fires, including a massive blaze that has destroyed around 42 square miles (110 square kilometers) of forestland, along with 16 homes, and has threatened the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, America's oldest Buddhist monastery in the Big Sur region of California.

Those ponds already cover an estimated 50 square miles, and an analysis of the industry's seepage records by the Canadian environmental advocacy group Environmental Defense suggests that every day around 3 million gallons of contaminated fluid leaks into the surrounding area.

«The risk of reactors cracking open in a crash could be reduced by jettisoning them before impact and bringing them down with parachutes,» he told the Times of London, adding that, in the worst - case scenario, if the armor plating around the reactor was pierced «there would be a risk of radioactive contamination over a few square miles.»

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

Developed in a collaboration between 13 different institutions harking from Australia, U.S.A., India and New Zealand, the new telescope array is located at the Murchison Radio - astronomy Observatory (MRO) around 800 km (497 miles) from Perth, a site that has also been selected as the future home for a portion of the Square Kilometre Array.

But when your world is multiple square miles of dusty Afghan hardpan, the only way to know what's around you is by figuring it out yourself.

Venturing beyond the school gate, stepping out into the outside world, learning professionals guide the children around their square mile, listening, watching and experiencing the world around them.

Set amidst tree - lined boulevards in an expat area around 10 miles east of the city centre, the school boasts rugby pitches and a cricket square alongside other facilities ranging from a 350 - seat theatre to art, music and design and technology studios.

The elevation is around 1,600 feet above sea level and the city has a total area of approximately two square miles.

The desert covers an area of around 100,000 square miles.

McAllen's population numbers around 135,000, and its population density is the second highest among our featured cities, at 2,776 residents per square mile.

Cameras are impractical because the area is around 40 miles square.

Enacting such a law in a city of around 215,000 people, spread out over 62 square miles, would seem to be a labor - intensive — and therefore costly — undertaking.

Cats typically roam a teritory that covers around 1 square mile.

Despite its small size, it has the lowest population density of any country in Central America, at around 35 people per square mile, so you won't have to worry about crowds.

Sandwiched between Mexico and Guatemala on the east coast of Central America, Belize might be small, at around 9,000 square miles, but it's a destination packed with things to do.

This exclusive sanctuary in southern Belize covers an area of around 150 square miles of tropical forest, and contains the world's only Jaguar Preserve.

Adelaide's city centre is made up of grid of streets just one mile square, making its main attractions extremely accessible, centered around King William Street and Victoria Square at the heart of thesquare, making its main attractions extremely accessible, centered around King William Street and Victoria Square at the heart of theSquare at the heart of the city.

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.

Pantelleria island is around 32 square miles in size making it the fourth largest island in Italy and has a main town which shares its name as well as a few smaller villages.

It encompasses approximately 1,470 square miles (or 1,110 square nautical miles) of ocean waters surrounding Anacapa, Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, San Miguel and Santa Barbara Islands, extending from mean high tide to six nautical miles offshore around each of these five islands.

The site was once a capital of the region and at the height of its power the kingdom covered around 1,500 square miles (3,885 square km).

Bunaken Island is a small island of around 5 square miles in the Bay of Manado, north of Sulawesi in Indonesia.

The capital rests on the island of Grand Turk with an area of less than 7 square miles and a population of around 3700, a cruise ship centre exists on Grand Turk and the island provides very popular shore excursions for cruise ship guests.

The most developed island is Providenciales with a population of around 20,000 and an area of approximately 38 square miles.

Belize has a landmass of around 8,860 square miles (22,960 square km), just a bit bigger than the state of Massachusetts.

It might surprise you to learn that Skyrim's map isn't any bigger than Oblivion's, which was around sixteen square miles.

He will sport a new grappling hook and wingsuit to get around an area nearly 400 square miles in size.

Other games have you running around a few square miles of Afghanistan or somewhere, while Elite Dangerous gives you a full 1 - to - 1 re-creation of the entire Milky Way Galaxy with billions of stars and planets and space stations to visit.

The event presented around 1,900 artist studios located in 67 neighborhoods set across 73 square miles.

Finding a place to hike or picnic in Scotland's cities just got easier with the introduction of what is thought to be the world's first comprehensive, interactive online map of urban green space — 429 square miles in all.The interactive map, prepared by the charitable organization Greenspace Scotland with government support, allows anyone with access to a computer to search for green space using place names or postcodes, or just by scrolling around, the BBC reported today, noting the environmental as well as recreational benefits:

Its disregard is evident in the poisoned wasteland around the nickel smelter in Monchegorsk, south of Murmansk, where hundreds of square miles of what was once forest is now almost entirely devoid of life.

Niue, a small island country in the South Pacific with a population of just 1,600, established a new marine protected area that covers 40 percent of the island's exclusive economic zone... In September this year, Chile announced a 740,000 - square - kilometer (285,700 - square - mile) marine reserve around its remote Easter Island.

The developer notes that «Comparable in square miles and projected population to Tempe, Arizona, Belmont will transform a raw, blank slate into a purpose - built edge city built around a flexible infrastructure model.»

Mississippi Power owns 42 square miles of land and 600 million tons of lignite around the Kemper plant.