SHINKAMIGOTO, Japan — Fringed with sheer cliffs and the narrowest strips of flat land, covered in mountains of dense forest, the islands of the Goto Archipelago of Japan are some of the country's most remote and forbidding.
Leaf springs are essentially strips of flat metal formed in an elliptical arc and suitably tempered, which absorb and release energy, and are commonly applied to suspension systems.
Around the rim along the top of the reef there are usually low, flat islands or more continuous strips of low, flat land.
For uniform defect-free surfaces, intensities of reflected light from a surface of flat strip are more or less uniform.
The Baltics, for instance, occupy a thin flat strip of land which is all but indefensible.
The nervous system initially forms as a flat strip of tissue on the outer layer, or ectoderm.
This was simply a flat strip of metal with its edges curled to hook over the rims or grooves of a row of cartridges (also usually five).
The town of Sanjiang lies on a flat strip of land opposite the city of Wenzhou, where the Ou river broadens before pouring its mass of grey water into the South China Sea, 350km south of Shanghai.
When I "free solo", without the use of a leash or a harness, all that separates me from that abyss is a long, flat strip of webbing an inch wide, slung between two anchor points.
