Sentence examples for huge islands from inspiring English sources

Noting that Dubai was running out of beach front, the emirates' ruling family decided to build two huge islands in the shape of palm trees.

Smoke from fires is an annual problem during the dry season in Indonesia, where vast tracts of land are cleared on the huge islands of Sumatra and Borneo using illegal slash-and-burn methods used to clear land for palm oil and pulp and paper plantations.

Not just the huge islands of rubbish forming in the middle of the oceans, but also invisible waste going into these oceans.

OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS about Madagascar, a huge island in the Indian Ocean.

The New Yorker, March 7 , 1988P. 62 OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS about Madagascar, a huge island in the Indian Ocean.

By Alex Shoumatoff The New Yorker, March 7 , 1988P. 62 OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS about Madagascar, a huge island in the Indian Ocean.

Although the huge island lies geographically close to Bantu-speaking Africa, its language, Malagasy, belongs to the distant Western Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family.

The company tried unsuccessfully to make Madagascar a great centre of trade, and the huge island became a stronghold of piracy, though the French acquired nearby Mauritius.

Humpbacks around Madagascar, the huge island of the coast of East Africa, sing songs mostly quite distinct from those across the ocean, off the shores of West Australia.

125 years after its first appearance, his book "The Naturalist on… OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS about Madagascar, a huge island in the Indian Ocean.

Like Norilsk, Sakhalin, the huge island at Russia's easternmost edge, is rich in natural resources, especially oil and fish, but in many ways desolate.