However, the original lowland forests and mangrove swamps near the coast have largely survived, provide sanctuary for a population of saltwater crocodiles ( Crocodylus porosus ), and contain some of Borneo's highest concentrations of wildlife.

The area is wet and humid and the swampy lowlands are home to Borneo's indigenous Proboscis Monkey.

Although bigger size than Brunei-Muara District with 1, 166 km < sup > 2 </ sup > of territory, Tutong has a population of only around 34, 100 including members of Borneo's ethnic tribes such as Tutong, Kedayan, Murut, Malay, Chinese and Dusun.

In addition to jungle discipline, field craft, and survival skills, special tactics such as combat tracking ( first using native trackers ), close-quarter fighting ( tactics were developed by troopers protected only with fencing masks stalking and shooting each other in the jungle training ground with air rifles ), small team operations ( which led to the typical four-man special operations teams ) and tree jumping ( parachuting into the jungle and through the rain forest canopy ) were developed from Borneo's Iban native to actively take the war to the Communist guerrillas instead of reacting to incidents initiated by them.

The sovereign state of Brunei, located on the north coast, comprises about 1 % of Borneo's land area.

In 1982-83 one of the largest forest fires in this century raged for several months through an estimated 5 million hectares of Borneo's tropical rainforests.

In addition, the importance of Dr. Galdikas's concern and work towards preserving Indonesian rain forest has been reinforced by the biofuel article of January 25, 2007, in The New York Times and the November 2008 article in National Geographic magazine, " Borneo's Moment of Truth.

It was formerly Borneo's main centre for gold extraction.

Of special note are Borneo's indigenous proboscis monkeys and orangutans, Asian elephants and Sumatran rhinoceros.

For centuries, the rare treasures of Borneo's forests acted like a magnet for traders in search of edible bird's nests, rhinoceros horn, elephant ivory and hornbill casques for the Emperor and the wealthy mandarins of China.

The Japanese invasion in December 1941 was a water-shed in Borneo's history.

The president's opportunity for influencing education reaches its highest point, as he decides which projects he will cut back, which he will advance by increased allowances or new fund-raising efforts.

We stood under a gigantic tree in the rolling country just outside of Moscow looking at silent flowers on the grave of a Russian poet and writer who cherished the love for his country to the point of foregoing the highest international honor.

** High Atlas, a mountain range in Morocco, contains the highest point in the Atlas Mountains

Mount Ararat, at the highest point in Turkey, is located in the Anti-Taurus.

The largest of these, Mount Aragats, high, is also the highest point in Armenia.

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The depth of water is necessary for determining scope, which is the ratio of length of cable to the depth measured from the highest point ( usually the anchor roller or bow chock ) to the seabed.

The highest point is located in North Andaman Island ( Saddle Peak at ).

Hence, from the point of view of the reader, numerals in Western texts are written with the highest power of the base first whereas numerals in Arabic texts are written with the lowest power of the base first.

The territory ’ s lowest point is at the Lein river near Rodamsdörfle, the highest point is the Grünberg ’ s peak near Unterkochen at 733 m.

The plateau, on whose centre stands the town of Ajmer, may be considered as the highest point in the plains of North India ; from the circle of hills which hem it in, the country slopes away on every side-towards river valleys on the east, south, west and towards the Thar Desert region on the north.

After his impeachment proceedings in 1998 and 1999, Clinton's rating reached its highest point.

The terrain is low-lying and sandy: a coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef with a depressed central area devoid of a lagoon with its highest point being above sea level.

The highest point is Monalanong Hill, at.

Its lowest point is the Caribbean Sea and its highest point is Mount Sage at above sea level.

The lowest point is at sea level and the highest is Bukit Pagon ().

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* highest point: Tena Kourou 749 m

The lowest point in the country is at Lake Tanganyika, at, with the highest point being on Mount Heha, at.

Nakagawa's defenses were based at Peleliu's highest point, Umurbrogol Mountain, a collection of hills and steep ridges located at the center of Peleliu overlooking a large portion of the island, including the crucial airfield.

The reserve has 83 acres ( 33. 6 ha ) of public land and at its highest point it reaches 162 metres with the distinctive landmark at the summit.

( Since the time-span of the nation-state coincides roughly with the separate existence of the United States as an independent entity, it is perhaps natural for Americans to think of the nation as representative of the highest form of order, something permanent and unchanging.

It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).

Others are confined to vast reservations, and not only does the Australian government justifiably not wish them to be viewed as exhibits in a zoo, but on their reservations they are extremely fugitive, shunning camps, coming together only for corroborees at which their strange culture comes to its highest pitch -- which is very low indeed.

The monitoring is the highest and most restrictive of any organization in existence.

At the national and international level, then, what is the highest kind of morality for the private citizen represents an instance of political immorality.

Bertha Szold was more like Meg, the eldest March girl, who `` learned that a woman's happiest kingdom is home, her highest honor the art of ruling it, not as a queen, but a wise wife and mother ''.

In Plato's mind there is an irresolvable conflict between the poet and the philosopher, because the poet imitates only particular objects and is incapable of rising to the first level of abstraction, much less the highest level of ideal forms.

Since he has just shown who is top dog, he may not be ready to receive this highest honor in the gift of the Soviet people.

Dr. Ray is a Fellow of the Foundation -- appointed thrice to assist his studies of William Makepeace Thackeray and of H. G. Wells -- and, before his appointment to the Foundation's executive staff, had been given our highest scholarly accolade, appointment to the Advisory Board.

A true university, like most successful marriages, is a unity of diversities Without forcing all components into a single pattern, the preparation of a master plan is an opportunity to consider interrelation of knowledge at its highest level, which a university -- in contrast to a multiversity -- should stand for.

The highest position is known as a ' research scientist.

With no set standards, there is the tendency to promote to the next highest level when the top of a salary band is reached regardless of performance.

The highest rated non-supervisory engineering title is ' research engineer.

This is much smaller than the highest resolution of even the very large reflectors now under construction, and consequently the radio emission of different regions of the disk cannot be resolved.

It is hard to believe that this mass of intertwined concrete constitutes what the law calls `` the highest and best use '' of centrally located urban land.

Fearful of inviting a military showdown with the West which they could not win, the Communists seek to undermine Western power where the nuclear might of the West is irrelevant -- in backwoods guerrilla skirmishes, in mob uprisings in the streets, in parliaments, in clandestine meetings of undercover conspirators, at the United Nations, on the propaganda front, at diplomatic conferences -- preferably at the highest level.

Ideally these schools should be so located that one or more should be in the area where demand for practical courses is at the highest.

Today however, the `` outsider '' is likely to have professional qualifications of the highest order ( otherwise the college would not be interested in hiring him ) and to be acclimatized to the democratic processes of the secular or state university.

It is natural that he should turn for his major support to a select and dedicated few from the organization which actually owns the university and whose goals are, in their opinion, identified with its highest good and ( to use that oft-repeated phrase ) ' the attainment of excellence ' ''.

Then, if the middle number is activated to its greatest potential in terms of this square, through multiplying it by the highest number, 9 ( which is the square of the base number ), the result is 45 ; ;