Such is the latest assessment from the National Snow and Ice Data Center, which suggests that the passage famously discovered by the explorer Roald Amundsen in the early 1900s, connecting Baffin Bay to the Beaufort Sea via straits within the Canadian Arctic archipelago, may be navigable at the moment (though the center also urges contacting authorities before reaching this conclusion).
Public commemorations that highlight the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait people within contemporary Australian society create a greater appreciation of our 40,000 years of culture and civilisation.
The Queensland premier, Joh Bjelke-Petersen refused to consider any adjustment in Queensland's border with Papua New Guinea, which, due to the state's ownership of islands in the Torres Strait, came within half a kilometre (about one-third of a mile) of the Papuan mainland.
Compared with existing methods, the proposed method helps to identify cumulative activity patterns for ship groups derived from mass ship trajectories, and provides a clearer interpretation of shifting space-use patterns within strait corridors.
The black guillemot breeds around the Arctic Circle and winters south to the British Isles, Maine, U.S., and the Bering Strait, usually remaining within sight of land and never forming large flocks.
distichus diverged in the Atlantic and/or within the Arctic basin, which represent the same side of the Bering Strait, with subsequent invasion of the Pacific by the F. distichus lineage.
Whereas Fraser River steelhead trout and sockeye salmon migrate out of the Strait of Georgia quickly [46], Fraser coho historically spent their entire marine phase within the strait [27].
Texada and Lasqueti islands are the largest within the strait, which has a midchannel depth of 900 1,200 feet (275 370 m).
There are several volcanic islands within the strait, the most famous of which is Krakatoa, which erupted on August 27, 1883, causing a tsunami with waves as high as 125 feet (38 metres) that destroyed 300 towns and villages and killed about 36,000 people.
Although sea surface temperature measured within Bass Strait and Port Phillip Bay, was not significantly different across the three years during the breeding months (One-way ANOVA: F2,28 =0.71, P=0.5; F2,28=0.67, P=0.5; Table 1).
