The fall of the Soviet Union raised the possibility of ethnic conflict and political breakdown throughout the Eurasian landmass. |
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Along some mountainous coasts the continental slope descends abruptly into a deep ocean trench that parallels the landmass. |
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But a country's landmass often extends far offshore geologically, well beyond its coastline. |
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The themes begin with discovery, exploration and survival in the last habitable landmass discovered by humans. |
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The strong north eastern wind blows off the central Anatolian landmass in summer as well as winter. |
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Furthermore, Canada is a large, mostly unpopulated landmass that is virtually undefendable. |
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The hors d' oeuvres consist of the small pelagic fish that swim in the natural eddy created by the country's jutting landmass. |
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This problem centres on our very large landmass, long coastline, remote location and small population. |
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The area spans one-third of Scotland's landmass and one-eighth of landward Britain. |
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This is due to the fact that all the continents had merged into a single landmass. |
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It outlines how Russia can regain predominance in the Eurasian landmass, drawing on both imperial Russian and Soviet-era traditions. |
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We have a small landmass, about 300 miles in length and 150 in width. |
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Some 250 million years ago, when earth had a single landmass, there was just one ocean, which we call Panthalassa. |
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On both sides, paths slant down to the river as it splits around the 4-acre landmass. |
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I feel that we must consider creating an international fund for planting trees on unused landmass. |
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The Barents Sea covers a relatively shallow continental shelf fringing the Eurasian landmass. |
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The present continents were all clustered together into a single landmass, Pangea, surrounded by a single ocean, Panthalassa. |
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Geomatics Canada provides maps of, and geographic information on, Canada's landmass and offshore resources. |
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Almost all of the earth's landmass is inhabited, although the temperate zones of the northern hemisphere are where you will find the largest concentration of people. |
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Vascular plants are the largest group of green plants in the world, and form the dominant vegetation over much of the earth's landmass. |
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Canada's minerals and metals, energy resources, forests and landmass epitomize the sustainable development challenge. |
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Scientists use satellite-generated climate records to monitor the Canadian landmass and better understand climate change. |
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These partners are selected for their interest and capacity to provide a homogeneous view of the Canadian landmass using the best available data. |
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You don't need thermals over a warm landmass to create a sea breeze. |
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But even Queens and Brooklyn are part of the larger landmass that makes up Long Island. |
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Since then, for reasons that are uncertain, this landmass began to break up and the continents gradually moved into the positions they are in today. |
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When Scotland leaves, we'll still be British, in so much as we share a landmass called Britain. |
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They enjoy being in the catbird seat, perched at a high elevation, with a commanding view of a vast expanse of open air, high above the landmass below. |
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Yes, it is easier to serve 5m people on a tiny island than 309m Americans on a vast landmass. |
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Formed mostly as the result of volcanic eruptions, Java is the 13th largest island in the world and the fifth largest in Indonesia by landmass. |
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The interior of the main continental landmass includes an extensive granitic core called a craton. |
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The evidence for when the Central American landmass emerged and the closing of the Central American Seaway can be divided into three categories. |
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Columbus believed the incorrect calculations of Marinus of Tyre, putting the landmass at 225 degrees, leaving only 135 degrees of water. |
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By the early Cretaceous and the ongoing breakup of Pangaea, dinosaurs were becoming strongly differentiated by landmass. |
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The launch itself was quite tricky, requiring some complicated maneuverers, to avoid flying over populated landmass. |
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Prior to the war, with no useful landmass or natural resources, Bermuda was largely ignored and left to its own devices by the London government. |
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Africa is the largest of the three great southward projections from the largest landmass of the Earth. |
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Geographically, Asia is the major eastern constituent of the continent of Eurasia with Europe being a northwestern peninsula of the landmass. |
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The South Island is the largest landmass of New Zealand and is the 12th largest island in the world. |
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He'd conquered the highest landmass on Earth, raised thousands for Comic Relief – and he'd trumped the other 145 climbers with him by making the world's first live videocast into a smartphone on the top of the world. |
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One must first understand that the landmass of Labrador can easily swallow up Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and the island of Newfoundland with lots of room to spare. |
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With one-quarter of its land already lying below sea level, the Netherlands is particularly vulnerable to the potential effects of global warming on reducing landmass. |
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It's almost as if the goal was to preserve the legal fiction that was terra nullius – that the landmass of Australia was empty when the British arrived. |
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Now, a DNA study of Maori New Zealanders has confirmed something else: an oral history. New Zealand was the last big landmass to be settled by humanity. |
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These variables affect productivity and reproduction in plant species and therefore the composition and distribution of the latter over the landmass. |
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Canada is covered with trees over two-fifths of its landmass. |
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Deposits of clay and sand were created from the surrounding landmass. |
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Responsible for the provision of topographic information about Canada's landmass, the centre collects maps and aerial photography that details natural and man-made land features. |
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It spans an area of just under 925,000 square kilometres and has a landmass extending inland from the eastern end of the Gulf of Guinea deep into the western savannah. |
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The digital version of the new Geological Map of Canada opens up new frontiers for learning about Canada and the great wealth and potential of its landmass and offshore regions. |
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Throughout the early Paleozoic, that landmass was broken into a substantial number of continents. |
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Peninsular India's subsequent movement towards and collision with the Laurasian landmass set off a mass exchange of species. |
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Its landmass slopes upward from south to north, culminating in the highlands of its northern cape. |
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There have been discrepancies among geologists on the origin of the Patagonian landmass. |
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The major portion of Ethiopia lies on the Horn of Africa, which is the easternmost part of the African landmass. |
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Thus, the wet prominence of the highest summit of an ocean island or landmass is always equal to the summit's elevation. |
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Species limited to a single epicontinental sea on a given landmass were severely affected. |
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The ideal criterion that each continent be a discrete landmass is commonly relaxed due to historical conventions. |
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Physiographically, Europe and South Asia are peninsulas of the Eurasian landmass. |
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Some islands lie on sections of continental crust that have rifted and drifted apart from a main continental landmass. |
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He also questioned the division into three of what is really a single landmass, a debate that continues nearly two and a half millennia later. |
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Other tests occurred elsewhere throughout the islands, with an official testing range covering over half of the landmass. |
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During the last ice age the bank was part of a large landmass connecting Europe and the British Isles, now known as Doggerland. |
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Charting a wide arc in the south Atlantic, the armada stumbled on the landmass of Brazil on 22 April 1500, and anchored near Porto Seguro, Bahia. |
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The four northern Islands used to be a single landmass known as Santa Rosae. |
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The British Empire was the largest Empire that the world has ever seen both in terms of landmass and population. |
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In short the entire landmass that was once the communist world now runs on corruption. |
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A quarter of Scotland's landmass has no 2G coverage whatsoever, compared with only four per cent in England, according to the regulators Ofcom. |
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The landmass has also tripled in height since December, now rising more than 196 feet above sea level. |
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Countless millions in that vast landmass have endured every conceivable horror, from famine, wars, atrocities and disease for decades. |
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It has a higher ratio of coast to landmass than any other continent or subcontinent. |
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And California's landmass shows more complicated crenelation and topographic variation than are visible from ground-level viewing. |
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The study suggested that certain groups of amphibians might have swum long distances from one landmass to another within the past few million years. |
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Geographically, the country of Australia is considered a continental landmass rather than an island, covering the largest landmass of the Australian continent. |
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The earliest evidence of human occupation of the Channel Islands has been dated to 250,000 years ago when they were attached to the landmass of continental Europe. |
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This was reflective of the fact that the primary network of the Dutch Empire was commercial exchange as opposed to sovereignty over a homogeneous landmass. |
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According to American scientists, the dinosaurs roamed the Earth some 90 million years ago when India and Madagascar were one landmass cut off from the rest of the world. |
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Ships sailing close to shore can experience difficulties with radars, due to reflections from the landmass and interference from the greater density of radar traffic. |
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During the Triassic, the Earth's continents were united as Pangaea, with one southern landmass known as Gondwana and one northern one known as Laurasia. |
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However, even prior to 1948, half of Scotland's landmass was already covered by state funded health care, provided by the Highlands and Islands Medical Service. |
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Delayed by unusually calm wind conditions and occasional blizzards, Bancroft and Arnesen made history by becoming the first women to cross Antarctica's landmass on Feb. |
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Certain parts of continents are recognized as subcontinents, especially the large peninsulas separated from the main continental landmass by geographical features. |
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The difference is that this time the arc was a little wider, Cabral went further west than Gama had, and as a result hit upon the hitherto unknown landmass of Brazil. |
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The continental shelf is an underwater landmass which extends from a continent, resulting in an area of relatively shallow water known as a shelf sea. |
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The dry prominence of a summit is equal to its wet prominence unless the summit is the highest point of a landmass or island, or its key col is covered by snow or ice. |
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Terra Australis was one of several names applied to the largest landmass of what is now known as the continent of Australia, after its European discovery. |
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Big Diomede Island was traditionally the easternmost landmass before the International Date Line, and the first landmass to ring in a new year, if using local solar time. |
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By three million years ago, the continents of North America and South America were linked by the Isthmus of Panama, thereby forming the single landmass of the Americas. |
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The nearest landmass to it is Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. |
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The ocean disappeared with the Acadian, Caledonian and Taconic orogenies, when these three continents joined to form one big landmass called Euramerica. |
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Papua was part of the Australian landmass, and is home to a unique fauna and flora closely related to that of Australia, including over 600 bird species. |
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