| The force of a monsoon is driven by the continental land mass being hotter than the surrounding oceans. |
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| This stress was to lead to the break-up of the land mass, first appearing in the vicinity of the South Atlantic and the Indian Ocean. |
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| Although a small country, with a land mass of 18,919 square miles, Slovakia's topography varies widely. |
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| By comparison, Canada harvests the furs of about 1 million wild animals each year, from a land mass three times as large. |
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| Alternatively, New Holland and New South Wales might indeed be part of the same land mass, forming a single continent. |
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| The USSR covered a huge land mass and was a police state whose reach extended into every Soviet home as well as various places around the world. |
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| The ribbon of land mass, fringed with coconut trees, stretches for more than 12,500 miles around a vast lagoon. |
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| When you spread a large population over a large land mass, broadband coverage is a much more expensive endeavor than it is in, say, Britain. |
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| One land mass, which eventually separated into Africa and South America, drifted south, while another moved north. |
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| At this point the West appeared to be confronted with a united communist front covering most of the Eurasian land mass. |
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| We do not have the land mass, and worse, the soil types, that will put us in the enviable position. |
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| Think of how superior a map showing roads, terrain, rivers, and cities is to one showing just a featureless land mass. |
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| Apparently Britain had moved a millimetre, it's so weird to contemplate that an earthquake can move a land mass that's so far away. |
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| The wind is picking up and blowing 15-20 knots north-easterly, which I hope is enough to miss the protruding land mass of Tenerife. |
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| If not effectively checked they may swamp the Assamese people and may severe the North East land mass from the rest of India. |
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| The area, part of a land mass that once joined Britain to northern Europe, disappeared about 8,000 years ago. |
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| And that as a result, the land mass now actually sinks, because it's fine alluvial soil. |
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| Instead, what is now the Lombardy region and some parts of Switzerland must have been a single land mass by the Jurassic period. |
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| She views her work as closely connected to Easter Island, a small land mass with ancient traditions off the shore of Chile. |
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| When they had the rain on, and I saw all this blue stuff coming over the land mass, I thought it was flooding. |
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| One consequence of the purchase was that the United States nearly doubled its land mass and became one of the world's largest countries. |
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| We must not see ourselves as a small country of 30 million people, floundering in a large land mass. |
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| Although Nunavut is large in regard to land mass, it is extremely small in population size, and has limited financial resources. |
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| Habitable land mass further south is much wider with the greatest population density. |
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| Experts said China, with its large land mass in the north and the west and a coastline stretching thousands of kilometres, was blessed with wind resources. |
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| The scientists decided that one land mass was insufficient to prevent the seas from surging and unbalancing the world. |
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| In this large land mass, the great distances are gapped by a multiplicity of races, religions and cultures. |
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| With a land mass about the same size as the UK or Japan and a population of just under 4 million people, New Zealand is one of the least crowded places on earth. |
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| A sprinkling of volcanic rock in the Pacific, they are 600 miles east of their nearest land mass, and beset on all sides by seven mighty ocean currents. |
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| Turkey is a large and geographically diverse country, with most of its land mass situated in a semi-arid region. |
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| Prince Edward Island is Canada's smallest province in terms of land mass and population. |
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| Environmentally, rail is the friendliest means of land mass transport that there is. |
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| If a country clears the trees from its entire land mass or puts children to work rather than sending them to school, its GDP will rise. |
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| This is no easy task for a country that ranks second in the world in land mass, but 200th in the world by population density. |
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| This paved road is the only one in the whole territory, a territory that makes up one-fifth of Canada's land mass. |
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| Europe exists both as a continental land mass and, less visibly, through its overseas entities. |
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| Tanzania total land mass is 89 million ha of which approximately 44.5 million ha is forests and woodlands. |
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| The federal government will retain ownership over some islands representing approximately 200 square kilometres of land mass in the area. |
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| A great fertile land mass makes this a natural advantage that the government aims to capitalize on. |
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| The size and characteristics of Canada's land mass make it in many ways unique. |
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| Tanzania is almost four times the size of the UK, and 25 per cent of its land mass is protected in national parks, game reserves or conservation areas. |
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| The Great Dying occurred between the Permian and Triassic periods, when all of today's continents were concentrated in one great land mass called Pangea. |
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| So far, Nepal has created fourteen protected areas, covering at least ten percent of the country's land mass, and there are plans to extend these protected areas. |
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| The 14 comm unities are spread out over a vast territory, comprising approxi mately one third of the total land mass of the province of Quebec. |
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| The rising sea level will only be partly offset by geological changes in the crust of the earth, which are pushing up parts of the island's land mass. |
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| Measurements from below the ice are only possible at the North Pole as the Arctic ice cap sits on the sea, unlike the Antarctic, which is a land mass. |
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| The atmospheric disturbance caused by rapid evaporation from these sudden, heavy rainstorms over a large land mass has a major effect on water supply forecasts in the West. |
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| If the path of the front took it over the ocean, then its moisture content will be increased but a body of air that travels across a land mass will remain dry. |
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| The Beringia land mass began submerging, cutting off land routes. |
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| Another physical factor, the immensity of the land mass of Quebec, plays an important role. |
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| When a country spreads over a large and varied land mass, connections can be as important as resources. |
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| On the other side, a flurry of diplomatic activity between Russia and China in recent months continues to draw the giant powers of the Eurasian land mass closer. |
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| The coasts of the Mediterranean are very accurate and every major island and land mass is depicted. |
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| It is over half the land mass of the province of Manitoba. |
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| A storm on 3 February 1825 penetrated the narrow land mass, Agger Tange, and thus separated Northern Jutland from the rest of Jutland. |
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| He followed the coastal land mass of Central America before returning to the Atlantic Ocean via the Straits of Florida between Florida and Cuba. |
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| As Canada is a large land mass in the northern mid to high latitudes, its interior is expected to experience a larger than average increase in temperature and a decrease in summer soil moisture. |
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| These are essentially terrestrial in that they extend over a land mass. |
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| Our immense land mass, vast oceans, inland waters, and atmosphere require a wide array of observations and measurements in order to monitor and understand their current condition and to predict their future states. |
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| The islands in this area represent approximately 1,650 square kilometres of land mass of which almost 1,050 square kilometres will be owned by the Crees, including rights to the land and subsurface resources. |
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| He follows others for whom the sea has had a profound impact and whose poetry and writing have influenced our vision of ourselves as a Maritime nation, despite the hugeness of our land mass. |
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| They are thought to have entered the Americas sometime after 17,000 years ago from that land mass, called Beringia. |
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| This bistate land mass alone is, in square miles, larger than the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. |
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| The Canadian Rockies and Canadian Shield overlie much of the land mass. |
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| Canada's size as the planet's largest land mass after Russia was once considered a handicap by men overawed by its unimaginable reaches and daunting winter weather. |
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| The vast majority of our country, in terms of land mass, does not exist between the Windsor-Quebec City corridor, although certain politicians believe that is the full extent of our country. |
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| From the founding of the city of Quebec in 1608, to the handing over of Canada to Great Britain in 1763, France controlled three-quarters of the total land mass of North America. |
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| To help with the American classification, Dr. Greenberg started making lists of words in languages of the Eurasian land mass, particularly personal pronouns and interrogative pronouns. |
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| These mountains, along with the Barn Range to the east, the Alaska Brooks Range to the west and the Old Crow Flats to the south, were not glaciated but formed a vast ice-free land mass called Beringia. |
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| The land that is now Vuntut National Park was once part of Beringia, a huge land mass in the Yukon, Alaska, and northeastern Russia that remained generally ice-free during the time of the last ice age. |
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| Bangladesh's land mass is literally shrinking. |
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| It is not a disputed land mass surrounded by ocean. |
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| A large land mass with a thinly distributed population provides an incentive for early adoption of telework, especially in applications such as medical services. |
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| As you can see from the chart, the regions therefore include vast regions of diverse terrain, sparsely settled land mass, and an enormous region of oceanic approach. |
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| There are two ways of producing more: traditionally by increasing land mass, or by increasing yields, either through technology or having several harvests in the same farming year. |
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| Geography has had an enormous influence also in the remainder of the Northwest Territories, whose land mass of 1.2 million square kilometres has only 32 communities. |
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| With such a small population spread over a vast land mass, physicians are often left to consider alternatives to the current setup of medical services. |
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| We should use all modes of transport, including the speedy, reliable, quality services of international road transport carriers to deliver freight from China to all countries of the Euro-Asian land mass. |
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| Some researchers estimate that the state is losing a land mass equivalent to 30 football fields every day. |
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| Archipelagos may be found isolated in large amounts of water or neighbouring a large land mass. |
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| To the north of the Tethys, the then land mass was called Angaraland and to the south of it, it was called Gondwanaland. |
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| The Australian mainland, New Guinea, Tasmania and many smaller islands comprised a single land mass. |
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| The strength of the sea breeze is directly proportional to the temperature difference between the land mass and the sea. |
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| With its large land mass and long coastline, China has exceptional wind resources. |
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| In East Antarctica, the ice sheet rests on a major land mass, while in West Antarctica the bed can extend to more than 2,500 m below sea level. |
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| The land mass collisions meant great migration and mixing of previously isolated species, such as in the Great American Interchange. |
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| The land mass of the Eastern Hemisphere is larger than that of the Western Hemisphere and has a wide variety of habitats. |
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| The EAIS rests on a major land mass but the bed of the WAIS is, in places, more than 2,500 metres below sea level. |
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| These were the first maps to show the Americas as a land mass separate from Asia. |
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| The eastern half of the island is the major land mass of the independent state of Papua New Guinea. |
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| Most of the Dieppe maps depict a large land mass entitled Jave la Grande, between what is now Indonesia and Antarctica. |
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| He points out that, at its height, the British Empire covered a quarter of the land mass and a quarter of the population of the planet. |
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| I was always told as a child that Great Britain would fit 72 times into the land mass of India. |
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| New Zealand's Southern Alps form a towering backbone to the long land mass of South Island. |
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| During times of lower sea levels, Malaysia, Indonesia, and their islands were all part of the same land mass. |
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| That's because tsunami waves grow taller as the sea gets shallower, which occurs near a large land mass or a continent. |
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| Also, a new endowment was set up in June that will benefit the 11 Council of the North dioceses such as the Arctic that are large in land mass but sparsely populated. |
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| In Western states, government owns more than half the land mass. |
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| It definitively refuted the legend of a land mass in the north Pacific, and did ethnographic, historic, and scientific research into Siberia and Kamchatka. |
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| Land reclamation in the 17th century transformed Macau into a peninsula with generally flat terrain, though numerous steep hills still mark the original land mass. |
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| He explored the coast, realizing that the large land mass was probably a continent, and dispatched a ship to notify King Manuel I of the new territory. |
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| From there, the Central American land mass extends southeastward to the Isthmus of Panama, where it connects to the Pacific Lowlands in northwestern South America. |
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| It is located southeast of the French mainland and west of the Italian Peninsula, with the nearest land mass being the Italian island of Sardinia to the immediate south. |
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| The land mass was very dry during this time, with harsh seasons, as the climate of the interior of Pangaea was not regulated by large bodies of water. |
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| Although Canada is a federal state, a large portion of its land mass in the north is under the legislative jurisdiction of the federal government. |
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| Geologically, the Indian subcontinent is related to the land mass that rifted from Gondwana and merged with the Eurasian plate nearly 55 million years ago. |
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| The Bailiwick is situated in the English Channel and has a combined land mass in the order of 80 kmA, but additionally has a significant coastline and intertidal zone. |
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| Repeated glaciations, which covered the entire land mass of modern Scotland, destroyed any traces of human habitation that may have existed before the Mesolithic period. |
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| These are the remnants of the British Empire which, at its height in the 1920s, encompassed almost a quarter of the world's land mass and was the largest empire in history. |
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| It is not widely known that New Zealand was the last significant temperate land mass to be peopled, the first Polynesian migrants arriving from Hawaiki about 700 years ago. |
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