We assume for this illustration that the size of the land plots is so great that the distance between dwellings is greater than the voice can carry and that most of the communication is between nearest neighbors only, as shown in Figure 2.

Clipperton Island lies about southeast of Socorro Island in the Revillagigedo Archipelago, the nearest land.

Aside from the richest and most powerful of the dukes and the king himself, Lombard noblemen tended to live in cities ( unlike their Frankish counterparts ) and hold little more than twice as much in land as the merchant class ( a far cry from the provincial Frankish aristocrat who held a vast swathe of land hundreds of times larger than the nearest man beneath him ).

The nearest land is uninhabited Starbuck Island, to the southwest.

There are no cross-border minorities, the nearest land is too far away: see Demographics of Iceland

The nearest point on land from Rockall is 301. 3 km, or 162. 7 nmi, east at the uninhabited Scottish island of Soay in the St. Kilda archipelago.

The nearest land masses are ( clockwise from north ) the island of Corsica, the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Tunisia and the Balearic Islands.

It is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world, lying from the nearest land, South Africa, and from South America.

Any military planner would know that to mount a massive invasion of Europe from England, Allied units had to be staged around the country, with those that would land first nearest to the invasion point.

It was not easy to escape because of the size of the island and the nearest land being more than away, but still slaves ran off from their masters and hid in the caves along Bermuda's coast.

Moneron, the only land mass in the Tatar strait, long and wide, is about west from the nearest coast of Sakhalin and from the port city of Nevelsk.

To mount a massive invasion of Europe from England, military planners had little choice but to stage units around the country with those that would land first nearest to the embarkation point.

Gilbert Murray summarizes the derivation from pelas gē, (" neighboring land "):" If Pelasgoi is connected with πέλας, ' near ', the word would mean ' neighbor ' and would denote the nearest strange people to the invading Greeks ..."

In the article on " Railways " in the Supplement to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, published in 1824, it is said: " It will appear that this species of inland carriage is principally applicable where trade is considerable and the length of conveyance short ; and is chiefly useful, therefore, in transporting the mineral produce of the kingdom from the mines to the nearest land or water communication, whether sea, river or canal.

In August 1949, the nearest local newspaper to Barrett, the Elbow Lake Herald, reported that, some five years earlier, local farmer Victor Setterlund had found on his land, near Barrett Lake, a heart-shaped stone weighing about 75 lbs ( 34 kg ), bearing a runic inscription.

Brown contracted with the owners for the Haile improvements and an additional tract of land, and in March of that year moved his family in ; his nearest neighbors were ten miles away.

The Marquesas Islands group is one of the most remote in the world, lying about northeast of Tahiti and about away from the west coast of Mexico, the nearest continental land mass.

He was ordered by air traffic control to land immediately at the nearest airport following a nationwide order to ground all civilian and commercial aircraft following the attacks.

Instead of going on to land at Greenwich, where everything was prepared for the reception of the Princess, Admiral Anson thought it better to make for the nearest port and docked at Harwich, where they remained at anchor for the night.

When attacking lone merchantmen in the days before wolfpack tactics began in earnest, he had been known to hand down bottles of spirits and blankets into lifeboats and give them a course to the nearest land.

Because of Bermuda's considerable distance from the nearest land mass, the airport's use by General Aviation aircraft is limited to jets and long-range turboprops.

With the exception of housing around the New Spring Gardens ( later Vauxhall Gardens ) pleasure park, opened in around 1661, the land at Vauxhall remained sparsely populated into the 19th century, with the nearest fixed river crossings being the bridges at Westminster, downstream, and Battersea, upstream.

Its nearest land neighbors are the Datça and Bozburun peninsulas of Muğla Province in Turkey.

Mimesis is the nearest possible thing to the actual re-living of experience, in which the imagining person recovers through images something of the force and depth characteristic of experience itself.

Information beyond nearest neighbor is carried second-, third-, and fourth-hand as a distortable rumor.

`` Be sure the man nearest you is awake.

To state fully what the Bible means as my daily spiritual food is as intimate and difficult as to formulate the reasons for loving my nearest and dearest relatives and friends.

No larger settlements, however, have been found to have existed in this remote rural area, located at least 15 km from the nearest road even in Roman times, up to the early medieval period when the place is mentioned as a king's mansion for the first time, not long before Charlemagne became ruler of the Germanic Franks.

Alberta is landlocked, and separated by a series of mountain ranges from the nearest outlets to the Pacific Ocean, and by the Canadian Shield from ports on the Lakehead or Hudson Bay.

At present the nearest airport is the Jaipur International Airport, about 132 km away, with daily flights to the major cities in India.

Its nearest neighbor is Howland Island, to the north.

After each competitor has delivered all of their bowls ( four each in singles and pairs, three each in triples, and two bowls each in fours ), the distance of the closest bowls to the jack is determined ( the jack may have been displaced ) and points, called " shots ", are awarded for each bowl which a competitor has closer than the opponent's nearest to the jack.

It is isolated from the nearest Dravidian-speaking neighbour population by a distance of more than.

The current consensus is that chordates are monophyletic, meaning that the Chordata include all and only the descendants of a single common ancestor which is itself a chordate, and that craniates ' nearest relatives are cephalochordates.

The chessboard is placed with a light square at the right-hand end of the rank nearest to each player, and the pieces are set out as shown in the diagram, with each queen on its own color.

Tau Ceti is noted for being the nearest Sun-like star at a distance of 11. 9 light-years.

Alpha Centauri is a triple star system that contains Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the Sun.

The Putney End is the southernmost stand in the ground, nearest to Putney and Bishops Park.

The family enclosure is located in the corner nearest to the Hammersmith end.

* Chamber: The cylindrical, conical, or spherical recess at the nearest end of the bottom of the bore into which the gunpowder is packed.

In optics, particularly as it relates to film and photography, depth of field ( DOF ) is the distance between the nearest and farthest objects in a scene that appear acceptably sharp in an image.

The nearest Met Office weather station is Slapton, about 5 miles South south west of Dartmouth and a similar distance from the coast.

The nearest bridge across the Dart is in Totnes, some away by road.

The distance from the front edge of the circle to where the discus has landed is measured, and distances are rounded down to the nearest centimetre.