Sentence examples for bordering islands from inspiring English sources

About 490 miles (790 km) from north to south and 375 miles east to west, with a surface area of 100,000 square miles (260,000 square km), it fills a downfaulted block, in some places almost 18,400 feet (5,600 metres) deep, the edges of which are seen in the bordering islands.

The floor of this portion of the ocean is formed into a structural basin by a series of geologic folds and faults that protrude above the surface in the form of bordering island arcs.

Probes in weak islands that bordered strong islands (n = 2,229) were not included since they may act like CpG island shores and thus confound analyses.

Tension is especially high over the waters near the South Korean border islands; the waters are claimed by both Koreas.

It warned civilian ships not to approach waters around five South Korean border islands, where South Korean marines were expected to fire weapons in exercise.

On Sunday, South Korea confirmed its deployment of dozens of Israeli Spike missiles and their mobile launchers on its western border islands.

North Korea and South Korea never agreed on a western sea border when they signed a cease-fire at the end of the Korean War in 1953, and territory around the South Korean border islands remains disputed and volatile.

The test of her resolve would come if the North Koreans, vexed by tough new international sanctions, launch some limited strike on border islands or South Korean naval ships, as many analysts suspect might happen.

South Korea says it has recovered an unidentified drone that crashed on one of its border islands the same day that North and South Korea exchanged artillery fire across their disputed maritime boundary.

Border islands in the area where the exercises took place are also hotspots.

It has also threatened attacks on US military bases in Asia and South Korean border islands.