A wave can travel nearly three thousand miles in the open ocean, undisturbed by sandbars, reefs or land, before it breaks here — on an unlikely little island shaped like a teardrop, off the radar of all but the most devoted surfers.
Finally we reached the marsh overlook, with a view of undisturbed beaches and the ocean beyond.
The naturalness criterion ranked high for a smaller percentage of the EBSAs (31%) than other criteria (51-70%), indicating the difficulty in finding relatively undisturbed areas in the ocean.
Much as the depths of the ocean are undisturbed by the movements of surface waves, so is an authentic happiness and serenity untouched by day-today annoyances and difficulties.
Seasonal changes warm and cool the continents, but leave the oceans relatively undisturbed.
If this newly created ocean were left undisturbed for a few hundred million years, its waters would evaporate and be transported onto the continents (in the form of precipitation); streams would transport their loads into it.
If this newly created ocean were left undisturbed for several hundred million years, its waters would evaporate and be transported onto the continents (in the form of precipitation); streams would transport their loads into it.
In a paper published this week in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, a team led by scientists at Oxford University reports that the crabs are not an ancient species left undisturbed at the bottom of the ocean for hundreds of millions of years (as some had thought) but, rather, that they evolved 40 million years ago -- relatively recently on the evolutionary scale.
Sala y Gómez is an uninhabited island off Chile's coast that Dr. Enric Sala, marine ecologist and National Geographic Ocean Fellow, called "one of the last undisturbed and relatively pristine places left in the ocean".
A major finding is the discovery that retentive oceanographic conditions on the west coast of North America have created an ocean wilderness where large predators are relatively undisturbed.
