Sentence examples for isolated continents from inspiring English sources

To support his claims, Kelly describes parallel inventions on different isolated continents (the blowgun and the abacus, for example), and the presence of near-simultaneous inventions in modern times (the light bulb was invented at least two dozen times).

In essence, Wegener stated that the isolated continents as we observe them today were once united and formed a super-continent.

Moreover, geographic patterns of the polyploids distributed pantropically to isolated continents within a rather recent period, have remained mysterious [ 11- 15].

Australia is also one of the most isolated continents.

It's the coldest, most isolated continent on earth.

A vast and isolated continent gave them the freedom to save what was precious from the Old World and to seek perfection in the New.

His Australia is no isolated continent; the country's vanished history casts a dark cloud over the present, indeed over all the world.

The second challenge actually results from a broader Australian cultural attempt to address the first: a festival circuit that has developed so that our spread cities and isolated continent can enjoy and benefit from international pollination.

Dubbed H11N2, the virus bears slight similarities to North and South American strains, but researchers still aren't sure how it was introduced to the isolated continent.

The distant, isolated continent of Australia may not spring to mind as a financial hub on the scale of New York, London or Tokyo, but its rich home-grown resources are catching the eye of international markets.

South America is the most biologically isolated continent, bar Antarctica and Australia.