He saw an ' Island of Sheep ' and a ' Paradise of Birds ', which some say could be the Faroes with its dense bird population and sheep.

The population is most dense in the European part of the country, centering around Moscow and Saint Petersburg.

The fertile area was able to sustain a dense population, 422 people per square kilometer in 1987, compared with an average of 98 for the country as a whole.

Robert Bruegmann, professor of art history, architecture, and urban planning at the University of Illinois at Chicago and author of Sprawl: A Compact History, stated that historical attempts to combat urban sprawl have failed, and that the high population density of Los Angeles, currently the most dense urban area in the United States, " lies at the root of many of the woes experienced by L. A.

The Dutch were unable to feed their dense urban population without a regular supply of Baltic wheat and rye ; prices of these commodities soared and the poor were soon unable to buy food.

The dense Western third of the island ( West Java, Banten, and DKI Jakarta ) has an even higher population density exceeding 1, 400 per km < sup > 2 </ sup > and is taking up the lion's share of population growth of Java.

A dense population of Chauci lived further inland, and they are presumed to have lived in a manner similar to the lives of the other Germanic peoples of the region.

The dense population arose from the elaborate irrigation of the Babylonian plain, which had originally reclaimed it from a pestiferous and uninhabitable swamp, and had made it the most fertile country in the world.

This complex, stratified society depended on the cultivation of varieties of maize, beans and squash, crops that, when added to game and fish, supported a dense population in numerous settlements.

Great disparity of wealth means that only a fraction of the population can motorize, and therefore the highly dense multimodal transportation system for the poor is cross-cut by the highly motorized transportation system for the rich.

Of these five, only Hendersonville — the county seat — possesses the typical characteristics of a dense urban center with significant population.

French Island provides the world's most dense and disease free population of koalas, with regular transfer of excess koalas to repopulate diseased areas on the mainland.

The Nile, indeed, at this portion of its course, was ill-suited to a dense population in antiquity.

Located in the western part of the county, its primary tax base is industrial development, which is why the population is so small and the city so dense.

Archeologists in the 1950s identified a multilevel site with centuries of waste accumulated in middens as well as petroglyphs and other indications of dense population.

In the early part of the 20th century it was a shopping center for the dense population of large farm families in the immediate area.

The population density is similar to a dense suburb, with part of the ring dedicated to agriculture and part to housing.

Hitra is famous in Norway for its large and dense population of Red Deer ( seeHitra's Coat-of-arms ).

The dense population of maquiladoras and the inability of Mexico ’ s environmental regulatory program to keep up with the rapid growth of the industry over the past quarter of a century have contributed to major environmental problems.

The Terai once supported a healthy wildlife population in a habitat of 25 foot ( 8 m ) high elephant grass and dense hardwood forests, but had very few people, due to virulent malarial mosquitos.

Species composition does, however, influence population density ; dense softwood understories support greater snowshoe hare density than hardwoods because of cover quality.

Because many European cities ( Rome, for example ) are already so dense in population and buildings, large supermarkets, in the American sense, may not replace the neighborhood grocery store.

Countless kurgans ( tumuli ), furnaces, and other archaeological artifacts bear witness to a dense population.

Tufted Puffins form dense breeding colonies during the summer reproductive season from British Columbia, throughout southeastern Alaska and the Aleutian Islands, Kamchatka, the Kuril Islands and throughout the Sea of Okhotsk.

They range worldwide, even in temperate to cold regions like Northern Ontario and above timberline in Wyoming's Rocky Mountains in the United States and the Jenolan Caves of Australia, but have their most dense and diverse populations in the tropics and subtropics, where they spread even to islandic territories like the Canary Islands, where have been found around 25 endemic species.

Colonies can be extremely large and dense ; 840, 000 pairs of White-faced Storm Petrel nest on South East Island in the Chatham Islands in burrow densities of between 1. 18-0. 47 burrows / m² ; densities as high as 8 pairs / m² for Band-rumped Storm Petrels in the Galapagos and colonies 3. 6 million strong for Leach's Storm Petrel have been recorded.

* Islands of Umm Al Quwain: Islands that lie to the east of the mainland peninsula on a unique stretch of coastline consisting of sandy islands surrounded by dense mangrove forests, separated by a series of creeks.

This mountain was known as The Black Reef and it rose almost perpendicularly for about two hundred feet, honeycombed with caves, top covered with dense scrub and creepers and tall grass.

It was foggy that evening, but the path to my house was so well grooved that I could feel my way, accustomed as I was to the dense mists that rise from the sun-warmed palisades of the river and sometimes last for days.

Throughout the 5th century BC, Athens sought to consolidate its control over Thrace, which was strategically important because of its primary materials ( the gold and silver of the Pangaion hills and the dense forests essential for naval construction ), and the sea routes vital for Athens ' supply of grain from Scythia.

According to the Big Bang theory, the Universe was once in an extremely hot and dense state which expanded rapidly.

was later shown to be exact in the dense limit of pairs.

This position was also very near the galactic equator, making it almost impossible to find such an object within the dense concentration of background stars of the Milky Way.

These colonies were extremely crowded and dense, with some estimates stating that there was a nesting auk for every of land.

But once mixed, for better results in a gun it was discovered that the final product should be in the form of individual, dense, grains ( originally the size of corn ) which allow the fire to spread quickly from grain to grain, much as straw or twigs catch fire more quickly than a pile of sawdust.

The hard, dense product was then broken again into tiny pieces which were separated with sieves to have a uniform product for each purpose ; coarse powders were used for cannons, finer grained powders for muskets, and the finest for small hand guns and priming.

The northern part of the continent, covering much of Siberia was also inaccessible to the steppe nomads due to the dense forests and the tundra.

Communication routes between these small centres only became populated later and created a much less dense urban morphology than, for instance, the area around Liège where the old town was there to direct migratory flows.

The land that was to become Lansing was surveyed as " Township 4 North Range 2 West " in February 1827 in what was then dense forest.

The direct execution of source code on historical computing platforms in an era of tiny disks, minuscule RAM and 300 baud serial connections led to a historical coding style that was terse, dense and expert friendly, even as more current MUMPS coding styles produce more readable code.

: The anti-tank obstacle system was immediately followed by an anti-personnel obstacle system made primarily of very dense barbed wire.

The discovery, beginning with Rutherford's analysis of the data in 1911, eventually led to the Rutherford model of the atom, in which the atom has a very small, very dense nucleus containing most of its mass, and consisting of heavy positively charged particles with embedded electrons in order to balance out the charge ( since the neutron was unknown ).

With an imposing force he returned to the Roman Forum, and at the foot of the Capitoline Hill encountered Galba, who, alarmed by rather vague rumors of treachery, was making his way through a dense crowd of wandering citizens towards the barracks of the guard.

Paraguay contained little oil and no precious metals or sea coasts, but the country was self-sufficient in many areas and was endowed with fertile land, dense forests, and swift rivers.

If someone was submerged in a liquid more dense than water, the pressure would be correspondingly greater.

The entire region from Ravenna to Chioggia was dense swamps, explaining why the Via Aemilia was constructed between Rimini and Piacenza and did not begin further north.