Sentence examples for isolated landmass from inspiring English sources

For instance, Madagascar has been an isolated landmass since the Cretaceous, while the IAA originated some 100 Ma later [ 1, 9, 49].

Scientists attribute this to the island's remoteness--it's the most isolated landmass on Earth.

Instead, the game takes place entirely on Koholint Island, an isolated landmass cut off from the rest of the world.

After all, Hawaii is the most isolated landmass on earth, making it the ideal place to just get away from it all.

It's no coincidence that Hawaii -- the most isolated landmass in the world -- experienced a boom in tourism at the same time that jet travel became accessible.

Here we report results of our study of the collapse, allegedly due to introduced infectious disease, of two endemic murines, Rattus macleari and R. nativitatis, on the isolated landmass of Christmas Island in the eastern Indian Ocean (135 km2; 10°29' S, 105°38'E) almost exactly a century ago.

These isolated landmasses were later welded onto the margins of Pangea, forming accreted terranes.

Because of its position more than 2,000 miles from the nearest continental landmass, the island of Hawaii is one of the most geographically isolated landmasses on Earth; this in turn has strongly influenced its ecology.

For roughly the past 55 to 56 million years, New Guinea and Australia, to which it was joined, have been isolated from other landmasses by the sea, and the former land bridge between New Guinea and Australia explains the presence of marsupials, tree kangaroos, and echidnas on the island species it has in common with the continent.

Britain is isolated from the Eurasian landmass, so natural recolonization and joining of different reintroduced populations, in the way that has happened in a number places in Europe (see Table 2), is not possible.

In fact, the paleogeographical history of the Balkan Peninsula is strongly linked to the paleogeography of Anatolia since both areas were joined in the same landmass and isolated from the rest of Europe during long periods of the Oligocene and Miocene.