Sentences with phrase «vegetated islands»

The Whitsunday Islands provide a magnificent vista of green vegetated islands and spectacular sandy beaches spread over azure waters.

But tree roots stabilized river banks and created narrow, fixed channels and vegetated islands, while log jams helped create the formation of new channels.

You are now flying over the southern end of Ambergris Caye, note the vegetated island with numerous interisland lagoons with shallow water.

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In ecological terms, these spiders are marine predators, and this explains how tiny, barren islands can support much denser populations of spiders than lushly vegetated inland areas.

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5.5 - 6 - Low lying carbonate islands off to the right are the south end of Hicks Caye, mainly mangrove vegetated with supratidal flats that are flooded during high tides and after heavy rains.

This contrasts with the vast mangrove forests in Hinchinbrook Channel, and the rugged vegetated mountains and lush rainforest gullies that are periodically cloud - covered on Hinchinbrook Island.

Most of the Island is vegetated with fantastic thick forests.

Michaelmas Cay is a small, vegetated sand island surrounded by a spectacular fringing reef.

As landmasses go, Barbados is relatively young, at just under a million years old, and was created when two tectonic plates collided, causing a volcano to erupt and pushing up an ancient coral reef that dried out and started vegetating, eventually becoming the island it is today.

Under the SRES scenarios, small islands are shown to be particularly vulnerable to coastal flooding and decreased extent of coastal vegetated wetlands (Nicholls, 2004).

Contrary to our experience on Isabela, Fernandina is sparsely vegetated, and by mostly mangroves in a ring around the island.