Antarctica, with its high plateau reaching to above 4,000 metres, intense cold, exceptionally low humidity and stable atmosphere, offers what for many forms of astronomy is the ultimate observing location on this planet.
One of his most intense poems in this metre, about Lesbia, extends to 26 lines; another is a long poem of involved design in which the fabled love of Laodameia for Protesilaus is incidentally used as a paradigm.
His team re-created the intense surges of the 30 metre waves by using indoor simulators.
There, sunlight has an intensity of 1,347 Watts per metre squared - about 30% more intense than on the Earth's surface, meaning greater electricity production.
I reflected on this ideological overstretch on my last European assignment, soaring over the Mediterranean in a doorless helicopter, having carefully but not so gallantly made sure my slip of a producer was between me and a plunge of several hundred metres into the intense blue waters below.
Although isolated poljes have been identified elsewhere, their large numbers in the karst of the Dinaric Alps are attributable to a system of active faults as well as to intense solution activity in nearly 9,000 metres of carbonate rock.
The rarefied and dry though somewhat polluted air of such high-altitude towns as Davos (5,216 feet [1,590 metres]) and Arosa (5,987 feet [1,825 metres]) permits a more intense, broader-spectrum solar irradiation and thus produces a climate famous in the past for tuberculosis cures.
Metre for metre, the bombardment was more intense than at Stalingrad.
Crown of Aragorn is a boulder problem: a short, intense route typically no more than a few metres high, letting climbers dispense with fiddly paraphernalia like ropes and harnesses and focus on the hardest individual moves.
Living with the pain For most of Ms. Zakaria's life, the spaghetti-like, metre-long Guinea worms caused her intense pain, sometimes forcing her to crawl around on hands and knees.
The 300-metre route leads adventure-seekers along an intense subterranean journey, illuminated by headlamps.
