Sentence examples for mainland portion from inspiring English sources

It also includes a mainland portion, and some four-fifths of the national seashore is underwater.

He completely destroyed the mainland portion of the town and used its rubble to build an immense causeway (some 2,600 feet [800 metres] long and 600 900 feet [180 270 metres] wide) to gain access to the island section.

The mainland portion of the city lies on an almost level deltaic plain with an average elevation of 10 to 16 feet (3 to 5 metres) above sea level.

It constitutes the Chinese mainland portion of the Hong Kong region and is located north of Hong Kong Island and east of the mouth of the Pearl (Zhu) River Delta.

The mainland portion of Ross and Cromarty, along with a few small islands near the mainland, lies entirely within the Highland council area, while Lewis is part of the Western Isles council area.

In the central and southern mainland portion of Alaska, the September 1992 cold was historically anomalous.

Throughout much of the American Southwest and mainland portions of Mexico, Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay is a reclusive jay of the foothills and lower mountain slopes.

The Sydney area is the eastern terminus of the mainland portions of the Trans-Canada Highway and the Canadian National Railway; there also are ferry connections to Newfoundland.

Given the presence of Eocene limestones on Palawan, it is conceivable that there has never been an emergent landbridge between the Asian mainland and portions of the North Palawan Block.

Over the summer, Hawaii lawmakers passed a measure to buy one-way plane tickets to the mainland for a portion of the state's homeless.

There are marked structural differences between the mainland and insular portions of the region.