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Mahoré, geologically the oldest of the four islands, is thirty-nine kilometers long and twenty-two kilometers wide, totaling 375 square kilometers, and its highest points are between 500 and 600 meters above sea level.
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Mahoré and islands
The islands ' distance from each other — Njazidja is some 200 kilometers from Mahoré, forty kilometers from Mwali, and eighty kilometers from Nzwani — along with a lack of good harbor facilities, make transportation and communication difficult.
The islands have a total land area of 2, 236 square kilometers ( including Mahoré ), and claim territorial waters of 320 square kilometers.
Daily flights linked the three main islands, and air service was also available to Mahoré ; each island had airstrips.
The leading military power in the region, France has detachments on Mahoré and Réunion, and its Indian Ocean fleet sails the waters around the islands.
Mahoré and is
Dzaoudzi is linked by a causeway to le Pamanzi, which at ten kilometers in area is the largest of several islets adjacent to Mahoré.
The Macao, a lemur found only on Mahoré, is protected by French law and by local tradition.
It is located on Grande-Terre ( or Mahoré ), the main island of Mayotte.
The Mahoré People's Movement () is a political party in the French overseas department of Mayotte.
Mahoré and its
With Mahoré continuing to gravitate politically and economically toward France, and Comoros increasingly dependent on the French for help with its own considerable social, political, and economic problems, the issue of Mahoré diminished somewhat in urgency.
Mahoré and are
They are Njazidja ( Grande Comore ), Mwali ( Mohéli ), Nzwani ( Anjouan ), and Mahoré ( Mayotte ).
Mwali and Mahoré possess streams and other natural sources of water, but Njazidja and Nzwani, whose mountainous landscapes retain water poorly, are almost devoid of naturally occurring running water.
Mahoré and .
In the 1990s, the republic continued to represent Mahoré in the UN.
geologically and oldest
The geologically oldest is the northern ridge, which consists of limestone of the Triassic.
Sal is the geologically oldest island in Cape Verde, formed 50 million years ago during the eruption of a volcano which is now inactive.
In other words, FADs represent the geologically oldest fossil of a particular species that has yet been discovered.
San Cristóbal ( Chatham ) is the easternmost island in the Galápagos archipelago, and one of the oldest geologically.
geologically and four
Although the Baltic Shield is mostly geologically stable and hence resistant to the influences of other neighboring tectonic formations, the weight of nearly four kilometers of ice during the Ice Ages caused all of the Scandinavian terrain to sink.
The Maluku Islands comprise some of the most geologically complex and active regions in the world, resulting from its position at the meeting point of four geological plates and two continental blocks.
The Agro Pontino geologically is one of four geomorphic divisions of a somewhat larger area, the Pontine Region, also comprising the Monti Albani, the Volscian Mountiains and Monte Circeo ; in short, all of Roman Latium.
geologically and islands
islands vary geologically from high mountainous islands to low, coral atolls ; volcanic outcroppings on Pohnpei, Kosrae, and Truk
A grouping of geographically or geologically related islands is called an archipelago.
Islands are either extensions of the oceanic crust ( e. g. volcanic islands ) or geologically they are part of some continent sitting on continental litosphere ( e. g. Greenland ).
The Maluku Islands ( or Moluccas ) are geologically among the most complex of the Indonesian islands.
The southernmost islands of Italy, the Pelagie islands, are geologically part of the African continent.
varying geologically from the high, mountainous main island of Babeldaob to low, coral islands usually fringed by large barrier reefs
Malukan biodiversity and its distribution are affected by various tectonic activities ; most of the islands are geologically young, being from 1 million to 15 million years old, and have never been attached to the larger landmasses.
* Three Rooker Bar-the most geologically recent of Pinellas ' barrier islands
The islands are geologically young and famed for their vast number of endemic species, which were studied by Charles Darwin during the voyage of the Beagle.
While other ecozones include old continental land masses or fragments of continents, Oceania is composed mostly of volcanic high islands and Coral atolls that arose from the sea in geologically recent times, many of them in the Pleistocene.
Miquelon-Langlade is made up of three geologically distinct islands bound together by tombolos: long strips of sand dune.
Considering the small size of these islands, we feel the more astonished at the number of their aboriginal beings, and at their confined range ... within a period geologically recent the unbroken ocean was here spread out.
The islands of the northern archipelago are geologically young being from 1 to 15 million years old, and have never been attached to a larger land mass.
As Wallace noted, there are arguments for excluding Papua New Guinea for cultural and geographical reasons: Papua New Guinea is culturally quite different from the other countries in the region, and the island of New Guinea itself is geologically not part of the continent of Asia, as the islands of the Sunda Shelf are ( see Australia ).
On the Galápagos Islands he remained convinced by Lyell's idea of species spreading from " centres of creation ", and assumed that species had spread from the mainland rather than originating on these geologically recent volcanic islands.
Along the geologically complex southern boundary, the Caribbean Plate interacts with the South American Plate forming Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago ( all on the Caribbean Plate ), and islands off the coast of Venezuela ( including the Leeward Antilles ) and Colombia.
The seas between the islands cover relatively stable ancient pene-plains that are characterised by low seismicity, low isostatic gravity anomalies and no active volcanoes with the exception of Sumatra, Java, and Bali, which while connected to the Sunda Shelf, belong geologically to the young Sunda Arc orogenic system ( i. e., the Sunda Mountain System ).
The island is geologically different from other Croatian islands in that it is mostly formed of fine sand laid on a limestone rock base.
geologically and is
The river, named Hamza after the discoverer, an Indian-born scientist Valiya Mannathal Hamza who is working with the National Observatory at Rio, makes it the first and geologically unusual instance of a twin-river system flowing at different levels of the earth's crust in Brazil.
In the area, the former seabed is only gently sloped, leading to large areas of land being reclaimed in, geologically speaking, relatively short periods ( decades and centuries ).
Anegada is geologically distinct from the rest of the group and is a flat island composed of limestone and coral.
Because Njazidja is geologically a relatively new island, its soil is thin and rocky and cannot hold water.
The name continues in some usages, although it is today considered geologically imprecise as it combines features that are today regarded as separate, although related, rift and fault systems.
Hastings is situated where the sandstone beds, at the heart of the Weald, known geologically as the Hastings Sands, meet the English Channel, forming tall cliffs to the east of the town.
The mountains of Kyrgyzstan are geologically young, so that the physical terrain is marked by sharply uplifted peaks separated by deep valleys.
Lake Erie in its current form is less than 4, 000 years old, a short amount of time geologically speaking.
A mountain range is a geographic area containing numerous geologically related mountains.
The Philippine Archipelago is geologically part of the Philippine Mobile Belt located between the Philippine Sea Plate, the South China Sea Basin of the Eurasian Plate, and the Sunda Plate.
When significant evolutionary change occurs, the theory proposes that it is generally restricted to rare and geologically rapid events of branching speciation called cladogenesis.
Unlike Japan or the northern provinces of China, the Korean Peninsula is geologically stable.
The entire island archipelago is geologically young, having begun to form probably less than 50 million years ago, during the Miocene era.
Darwin borrowed Charles Lyell's argument in Principles of Geology that the record is extremely imperfect as fossilisation is a very rare occurrence, spread over vast periods of time ; since few areas had been geologically explored, there could only be fragmentary knowledge of geological formations, and fossil collections were very poor.
Except for a relatively small portion of its territory along the Syrian border that is a continuation of the Arabian Platform, Turkey geologically is part of the great Alpide belt that extends from the Atlantic Ocean to the Himalaya Mountains.
The Eurasian margin, now preserved in the Pontides ( the Pontic Mountains along the Black Sea coast ), is thought to have been geologically similar to the Western Pacific region today ( e. g. Rice et al., 2006 ).
However, the + 1 state, which is far more prominent in thallium than the elements above it, recalls the chemistry of alkali metals, and thallium ( I ) ions are found geologically mostly in potassium-based ores, and ( when ingested ) are handled in many ways like potassium ions ( K < sup >+</ sup >) by ion pumps in living cells.
Geographically and geologically, Virginia is divided into five regions from east to west: Tidewater, Piedmont, Blue Ridge Mountains, Ridge and Valley, and Cumberland Plateau.
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