In 1872 the capital was moved to Kingston, as the port city had far outstripped the inland Spanish Town in size and sophistication.

Because of diversion of the Amu Darya and Syr Darya for cotton cultivation and other purposes, what once was the world's fourth largest inland sea has shrunk in the past thirty years to only about one-third of its 1960 volume and less than half its 1960 geographical size.

The small size of the county's communities, scattered along the beaches, coastal hills, and mountains of the Santa Lucia range, provides a wide variety of coastal and inland hill ecologies to support many kinds of fishing, agriculture, and tourist activities.

When the county was originally formed, it stretched for inland ( twice its current size ), but the western half was split off to form Lenawee County in 1826.

This family of the Diprotodontia order, which can be found in the east coast and inland of Australia and in some islands of New Guinea, is characterized by their very small size, which has side effects: because their mass-to-surface-area ratio is so small, heat escapes quicker from their bodies than it would in larger animals ( the larger the mass-to-surface-area ratio, the harder it is to get rid of heat ).

The size and power of a wave generated by such means could produce devastating effects, travelling across oceans and inundating up to inland from the coast.

There are 50 inland waterways with different size ; the navigable mileage is 383km, and the main trunk and branch are 26.

This subspecies ( Melospiza georgiana nigrescens ) winters in coastal marshes of the Carolinas and differs from the two inland Swamp Sparrow subspecies in having more black in a grayer overall plumage, larger bill, different songs, and a smaller average clutch size.

It is roughly the same size as the Murray-Darling basin ( which drains inland eastern Australia and is responsible for a large proportion of the continent's agricultural productivity ) but has vastly less water.

They cite geopolitical circumstances such as the inland position of the capital, the size of the country itself, the numerous internal custom barriers, the lack of cohesiveness of the merchant communities of the Atlantic coast set in their parochial ways and reluctant to invest significantly in a large-scale company that trade with the distant East Indies called for.

Because of its large size, the entire Texas coast was affected, and damage was reported as far inland as Dallas.

The term Seawaymax refers to vessels which are the maximum size that can fit through the canal locks of the St. Lawrence Seaway, linking the inland Great Lakes of North America with the Atlantic Ocean.

The flood overwhelmed rivers on both sides of the Great Dividing Range, creating an inland sea the size of England and Wales.

Another passage from Proclus ' commentary on the Timaeus gives a description of the geography of Atlantis: That an island of such nature and size once existed is evident from what is said by certain authors who investigated the things around the outer sea.

For according to them, there were seven islands in that sea in their time, sacred to Persephone, and also three others of enormous size, one of which was sacred to Hades, another to Ammon, and another one between them to Poseidon, the extent of which was a thousand stadia ; and the inhabitants of it — they add — preserved the remembrance from their ancestors of the immeasurably large island of Atlantis which had really existed there and which for many ages had reigned over all islands in the Atlantic sea and which itself had like-wise been sacred to Poseidon.

The key leader was Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz ( 1849 – 1930 ), who greatly expanded the size and quality of the Navy, while adopting the sea power theories of American strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan.

The enormous size of Russia and the remoteness of many areas from the sea result in the dominance of the humid continental climate, which is prevalent in all parts of the country except for the tundra and the extreme southeast.

The major protagonists, now gathered together on board the submarine, are menaced by the Leviathan, a giant, pyramid-shaped single-cell sea monster that has been growing in size for hundreds of millions of years.

They range in size from the small dwarf lanternshark ( Etmopterus perryi ), a deep sea species of only in length, to the whale shark ( Rhincodon typus ), the largest fish in the world, which reaches approximately.

The large size of the Qattara Depression and the fact that it falls to a depth of 133 m below mean sea level has led to several proposals to create a massive hydroelectric project in northern Egypt rivalling the Aswan High Dam.

Besides the shape, weight and size of the lure head, the length and thickness of skirting, the number and size of hooks and the length and size of the leader used in lure rigging all influence the action of the lure: how actively it will run and how it will respond to different sea conditions.

A village in the UK is a compact settlement of houses, smaller in size than a town, and generally based on agriculture or, in some areas, mining ( such as Ouston, County Durham ), quarrying or sea fishing.

Being sexually dimorphic, California sea lions differ in size, shape, and coloration between the sexes.

Constituency boundaries were out of date, and the so-called " rotten boroughs " had a hugely disproportionate influence on the membership of the Parliament of the United Kingdom compared to the size of their populations: Old Sarum in Wiltshire, with one voter, elected two MPs, as did Dunwich in Suffolk, which by the early 19th century had almost completely disappeared into the sea.

Land reclamation, however, has almost doubled the size of Dithmarschen as land has been wrested from the sea.

Sydenham Hill is one of the highest locations in London ; 109 metres ( 357 ft ) above sea level ( spot height on Ordnance Survey Map ); and the size of the palace and prominence of the site made it easy to identify from much of London.

Putney Heath is around 400 acres in size and sits at approximately 150 feet above sea level.

Two camp grounds ( car / camper and walk-in tent camping only ) and plentiful picnic areas, some with shelters, water and composting toilets, are available at various points in the rainforest adjacent to the road, and one picnic spot at Blackbutts Lookout, offers spectacular scenic views to Mount Warning, and of the Tweed Valley, an erosion caldera which, while broken by the sea on its eastern flank, is considered larger in size than the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania.

Then, Phil Sadowski began dredging around the island, adding to its size and increasing its height to six feet above mean sea level, and later built developments on the island.

As of 1841, there were six large burial mounds at Grigsby ’ s Bluff, size about 60 feet wide, 20 feet tall, and 100 yards long, consisting entirely of clam and sea shells, skeletons, pottery shards, and other Indian artifacts.

However, the two parameters are interrelated ( due to sea level drops accompanying increased glaciation ), making the driver of the trends in maximum size more difficult to identify.

At sea, Dudley's fighting orders were at the forefront of tactical thinking: Squadrons of ships, ordered by size and firepower, were to manoeuvre in formation, using co-ordinated gunfire.

Eddington went so far as to claim that a sufficiently wise mind could deduce all of physics, illustrating his point with the following joke: " Some men went fishing in the sea with a net, and upon examining what they caught they concluded that there was a minimum size to the fish in the sea.

Although it varied in size and color and was at times cropped by the edges of the cover, or briefly rotated 4 degrees, it remained essentially unchanged for nearly three decades.

The size of the Britannica has remained roughly constant over 70 years, with about 40 million words on half a million topics.

* 1993 – Brooke Greenberg, American child who has remained the size of a toddler, in spite of being in her late teens.

Brandenberger and Vafa have speculated that in the early universe, cosmic inflation causes three of the space dimensions to expand to cosmological size while the remaining dimensions of space remained microscopic.

Fossils very similar to V. komodoensis have been found in Australia dating to greater than 3. 8 million years ago, and its body size remained stable on Flores, one of the handful of Indonesian islands where it is currently found, over the last 900, 000 years, " a time marked by major faunal turnovers, extinction of the island's megafauna, and the arrival of early hominids by 880 ka.

In a 2001 report, NASA found the ozone thinning over Antarctica had remained the same thickness for the previous three years, however in 2003 the ozone hole grew to its second largest size.

Since then, the size of San Marino has remained unchanged.

Although the settlement was much reduced in size, the citadel remained occupied though it never regained its earlier importance.

The 35 mm width with 4 perforations per frame became accepted as the international standard gauge in 1909, and has remained by far the dominant film gauge for image origination and projection despite challenges from smaller and larger gauges, and from novel formats, because its size allowed for a relatively good tradeoff between the cost of the film stock and the quality of the images captured.

Despite its size, the equivalent of five city blocks long with a three story high conning tower, it has so far remained undetected.

The ARM core has remained largely the same size throughout these changes.

Lack of a legitimate heir, however, remained a concern for Władysław I and in 1085 he and his wife Judith of Bohemia sent rich gifts, among which was a life size statue of a child made of gold, to the Benedictine Sanctuary of Saint Giles in Saint-Gilles, Provance begging for offspring.

As noted, above average physical size had been considered important for the original grenadiers and, in principle, height and strength remained the basis of selection for these picked companies.

After a set amount of time ( usually a few hours, though this depends on the voltage applied across the gel ; protein migration occurs more quickly at higher voltages, but these results are typically less accurate than at those at lower voltages ) the proteins will have differentially migrated based on their size ; smaller proteins will have traveled farther down the gel, while larger ones will have remained closer to the point of origin.

The community of Catlettburg has remained the same size over the last 100 years, but the city of Catlettsburg has decreased in population since the 1930s.

Since that time, Parks has remained approximately the same size.

In 1917, its population was deemed to be between 350 and 400 residents, a size that had remained consistent since the 1850s.

Although reduced in size from the L Outfit, the No. 10 Outfit became Meccano's flagship set and remained relatively unchanged until it was discontinued a half-century later in 1992.

Though Cham territory included the mountainous zones west of the coastal plain and ( at times ) extended into present-day Laos, for the most part the Cham remained a seafaring people dedicated to trade, and maintained few settlements of any size away from the coast.

Its repertoire remained limited by the group's size, which has stayed fairly consistently at around the size of an orchestra of Mozart's time.

Although 7 ″ remained the standard size for vinyl singles, 12 ″ singles were introduced for use by DJs in discos in the 1970s.

After the fall of Sauron, Arnor was safe again for human population, and although it remained less populated than Gondor to the south, in time Arnor became a more densely populated area again, even if it had dwindled in size due to the independence of the Shire.

The size of the town, however, remained relatively modest.