Sentence examples for islands close to from inspiring English sources

My final dives were to some islands close to Denpasar with well-developed hotel-based tourism.

They are found on subantarctic islands, close to the northern extremes in the Arctic, and on many mountaintops.

Samos is one of several islands close to Turkey to have received thousands of refugees this summer.

Anger at the influx has mounted on Aegean islands close to the Turkish coast, where tourism has been hard hit.

The announcement came on a day when South Korean marines conducted two hours of live-fire exercises around five islands close to the southern coast of North Korea, and as the North warned it might retaliate with artillery attacks.

The Japanese PM called for restraint over military spending in Asia, where the ongoing dispute between Tokypo and Beijing over ownership of the Senkaku/Diaoyu uninhabited islands close to Taiwan, which are under Japan's control.

There are, for instance, new plans to reinforce the undefended Yaeyama islands, closest to the Senkakus, in case of a Sino-Japanese conflict.

But as people continue to dig by hand to reach the bodies, officials now agree that the death toll on Nias and the islands closest to it could easily reach 1,000.

"The Darwin Research Station has been trying to mate him with females from islands closest to his, but he doesn't seem interested," Jeffrey Powell, a professor at Yale's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, said in a statement.

They predicted that islands closest to the mainland would be the least unique and that the islands with the highest biodiversity would have been separate from the mainland for the longest period of time.

Islands closer to continental landmasses or reefs at high islands where iron may be available from chemical erosion of volcanic soils may be less vulnerable to impacts of iron enrichment associated with metal objects.