Sentence examples for small landmass from inspiring English sources

For such a small landmass, this tiny island packs quite a punch, its 29,187 hectares including seven volcanoes.

What should we think in 2010 about the respective Argentinian and British claims to sovereignty of this small landmass off the Argentinian coast, which has been disputed for a good 200 years?

This small landmass has always been swirling with ghosts.

Herbivore coexistence on the Late Cretaceous island continent of Laramidia has been a topic of great interest, stemming from the paradoxically high diversity and biomass of these animals in relation to the relatively small landmass available to them.

New Zealand is a heightened disaster "riskscape" [ 2] because of its isolated location (roughly 1,500 km east of Australia), over 15,000 km of coastline, small landmass (<270,000 km), and omnipresent vulnerability to natural hazards [ 3- 5], including seismic hazards arising from local, regional, and trans-Pacific sources [ 6- 8].

The Early Carboniferous (Mississippian) world is characterized by Laurussia a series of small landmasses in the Northern Hemisphere was made up of present-day North America, western Europe through the Urals, and Balto-Scandinavia and Gondwana—an enormous landmass made up of present-day South America, Africa, Antarctica, Australia, and the Indian suBalto-Scandinavia andthern Hemisphere.

The main reason behind these changes in body mass was often thought to be the limited resources available on an island; a smaller landmass means fewer available things to eat.

Singapore, with a slightly smaller landmass than New York City, is a dot in the huge stretch of islands that swirls off the coast of Vietnam — including Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.

In March 2009, the same volcano and another on Hunga Ha'apai erupted, forming a smaller landmass that connected to the existing island, but it was not very stable.

These deposits formed accreted terranes (smaller landmasses subsequently added onto continents) that became attached to the margins of some continents during Mesozoic and Cenozoic times.

South America, Africa (including the adjoining pieces of what are now the Arabian Peninsula and the Middle East), Antarctica, Australia, India, Madagascar, and several smaller landmasses were joined in Gondwana in the south, while North America, Greenland, and Eurasia (including Southeast Asia) formed Laurasia.