Sentence examples for islands waters from inspiring English sources

These include tightening safety regulations for ships entering the islands' waters, which were declared a marine reserve in 1998.

This week his government had to summon the Chinese ambassador to complain about an unusually long visit to the islands' waters by Chinese surveillance ships.

Ms Fernández has striven to enlist other governments in the region to her niggly campaign likely to intensify if oil is produced in the islands' waters.

It is an important nesting site for loggerhead turtles and humpback whales feed in the islands' waters.

Like the environmentalists, the fish and wildlife managers and the fishermen who want to continue their access to the islands' bounty of fish, she awaits details of a federal plan that would protect the islands' waters.

In those areas communities presently have use rights, but the actual ownership of inshore fishing areas is legally vested with the government - a feature that originated in Fiji's "Deed of Cession" of 1881 stating that "the ownership of islands, waters, reefs and foreshores are vested in "Her Majesty and Her Successors".

For thousands of years on the Kuna Yala islands, water and prayer were intertwined with daily rituals.

On St. John, the smallest and most remote of the islands, water and wind reduced beachfront hotel rooms to rubble.

Several islands' water supply were contaminated.

The first recorded landing on the islands is attributed to English captain John Strong, who, en route to Peru's and Chile's littoral in 1690, discovered the Falkland Sound and noted the islands' water and game.

That damage, combined with the continuing contamination of the water table, has prompted a commitment to a long-term solution to the islands' water and sanitation needs.