Sentence examples for scattering of islands from inspiring English sources

A rich green scattering of islands, awash in life.

We clamber on board and within minutes we're away, the scattering of islands retreating into the sea.

The Marshall Islands, a scattering of islands and atolls (including Bikini) located about halfway between Hawaii and Australia, will field one of the smallest of the 205 teams competing in Beijing.

Four hundred ships a day sail through this gulf toward Japan's biggest port, and the traffic, the scattering of islands, and the lights on land can make navigation extremely difficult.

This scattering of islands and islets, with no memory of wartime battles and no experience of being a base for United States Marines, is a world away from the sometimes politically tense atmosphere on Okinawa Island, some 250 miles away, where the Marines are based.

While mainland officials recently said Hong Kong would be included in new legislation being drafted to ban secession, and have warned against any advocacy of independence, there is virtual unanimity in Hong Kong that independence would be both impractical and impossible for a peninsula and scattering of islands with a combined land area half that of Luxembourg.

They defended their liberty and conquered a scattering of island bases in the East.

During the Byzantine Arab Wars, the exhausted Roman Empire's recently regained eastern and southern provinces of Syria, Armenia, Egypt and North Africa were also lost, reducing the Empire to a territorial rump consisting of Anatolia and a scatter of islands and footholds in the Balkans and Italy.

In the north is a scattering of volcanic islands that remain off-the-beaten track.

Les Saintes is a scattering of volcanic islands, dry as a bone, whose residents are predominantly white fishermen and boatbuilders.

The coastline presents a variety of landscapes, including bold headlands, sandy beaches, lagoons, estuaries, wetlands, alluvial plains, occasional extensive vegetated dunelands, and a scattering of nearshore islands of great recreational value.