Sentence examples for habitable islands from inspiring English sources

Countries can claim 12 nautical miles (22km) of territorial sea and 200 nautical miles of "exclusive economic zone" (EEZ) off the coast of their mainlands and habitable islands.

Land features are entitled to 12 miles of territorial waters; habitable islands have an additional 200 miles of "exclusive economic zone" (EEZ).

For latter-day Crusoes wanting to buy, sell, rent, let, develop or manage a private island, Mr Vladi, an island broker, is an indispensable Man Friday.Since 1970 he has amassed a catalogue covering most of the planet's privately owned habitable islands.

There are almost a thousand habitable islands in Philippines.

It is one of the most habitable islands in the Mariana chain, says Michael Hadfield, a biologist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, who spent time on the island documenting the wildlife on behalf of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Settlers had reached every habitable island by the 2nd millennium ce.

When his brother died, he used a small legacy to buy himself part of the tiny and barely habitable island of Caprera, off Sardinia.

After seven full days and nights cruising at 15 knots, the first officer showed me the ship's radar display – we were only halfway across the Pacific, and there wasn't a habitable island for hundreds and hundreds of miles.

Rocks, which remain above water regardless of tidal fluctuations but are unable to sustain human life, do generate a territorial sea, but not the 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone that is accorded to a habitable island, giving a country sole rights to whatever sources of wealth lies beneath that stretch of water.

Many argue that Necker Island, a 74-acre swath of land in the British Virgin Islands and owned by Virgin CEO Richard Branson, was the first habitable private island to be rented out when it entered the scene in the mid-1990s.

He and Lisa lived there in the off-season, then rented it out for the exorbitant weekly rates that any habitable structure on the island can command through Labor Day.