He was knighted for this work in 1911, but was forced to retire from foreign service due to adverse affects of the tropics on his health. |
Sometimes you will find the best kayaking tours in the tropics or the ocean. |
These natives of the American tropics are commonly called zebra plants due to the characteristic striped foliage. |
It was a sharp jut of rock on the top of a hill, a bare landscape amongst the tropics of the jungle. |
But its leakiness grew worse in the tropics, and an inspection of the careened vessel in the Gulf of Carpentaria revealed the worst. |
Australia is a big country, stretching from the tropics to the roaring forties, and it has a correspondingly wide range of climates. |