They ended the traditional notion of a quasi-steady, large-scale pattern of global ocean circulation by proving that the ocean is changing rapidly on all scales, from huge features such as El Niño and La Niña, which can cover the entire equatorial Pacific, to tiny eddies swirling off the large Gulf Stream in the Atlantic.

Slender beaks were found on the finches which found insects to be the best source of food on the island they inhabited ; their slender beaks allowed the birds to be better equipped for pulling out the insects from their tiny hiding places.

Surprisingly, Cook never sighted the largest island, Rarotonga, and the only island that he personally set foot on was tiny, uninhabited Palmerston Atoll.

On a small island, in a tiny hut on stilts, he first read Vannevar Bush's article " As We May Think ", which greatly inspired him.

Another subtype is an island or bar formed by deposition of tiny rocks where a water current loses some of its carrying capacity.

Their headquarters then moved to Limassol on the island of Cyprus, and they also attempted to maintain a garrison on tiny Arwad Island, just off the coast from Tortosa.

Nauru is a tiny phosphate rock island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean south of the Marshall Islands in Oceania.

Along with the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand were responsible for the large scale and indiscriminate mining of phosphate on the tiny island for most of the 20th century.

Under a microscope it becomes clear that Nevis sand is a mixture of tiny fragments of coral, many foraminifera, and small crystals of the various mineral constituents of the volcanic rock of which the island is made.

One of these posts was near Pylos on a tiny island called Sphacteria, where the course of the first war turned in Athens's favour.

Before the Minoan eruption, the caldera formed a nearly continuous ring with the only entrance between the tiny island of Aspronisi and Thera ; the eruption destroyed the sections of the ring between Aspronisi and Therasia, and between Therasia and Thera, creating two new channels.

The main island of the archipelago is Taiwan Island, which comprises about 99 % of the current jurisdiction of the Republic of China ; the other 1 % consists of the smaller islands of the archipelago such as Orchid Island and the Penghu islands, along with the tiny islets-Green Island and Hsiao Liuchiu.

* April 15 – WWII: King George VI awards the George Cross to Malta to mark the Siege of Malta, saying, " To honour her brave people I award the George Cross to the Island Fortress of Malta, to bear witness to a heroism and a devotion that will long be famous in history ( from January 1 to July 24, there is only one 24-hour period during which no bombs fall on this tiny island ).

The fighting for control over these small islands became very intense in the 17th and 18th centuries with the Dutch even giving the island of Manhattan to the British in exchange for, among other things, the tiny island of Run which gave the Dutch full control over the Banda archipelago's nutmeg production.

Allying himself with Ternate's ruler, Serrão constructed a fortress on that tiny island and served as the head of a mercenary band of Portuguese seamen under the service of one of the two local feuding sultans who controlled most of the spice trade.

These tiny people, named Homo floresiensis after the island on which the remains were found, were informally dubbed " hobbits " by their discoverers in a series of articles published in the scientific journal Nature.

Other species have a tiny, restricted distribution ; this is most common in island endemics.

Peñón de Alhucemas is a tiny rock island, measuring 220 meters east-west and up to 84 meters north-south, with an area 1. 5 ha or 0. 015 km², and a height of 27 meters ( 88 ft ).

A causeway also connects Al Muharraq to the tiny island of Jazirat al Azl, the site of a major ship-repair and dry-dock center.

It took " The Man in the Iron Mask " 11 years to leave this tiny, forested island.

San Lorenzo is a tiny, rocky island nation located in the Caribbean Sea, positioned in the relative vicinity of Puerto Rico.

On February 22, 1973, an agreement was met, and state lines were redrawn for the last time to cut exactly through the tiny island, which divided the island between Monroe County and Lucas County.

* Nauru: Nauru, a tiny country of only, has no distinct capital city, and thus has a capital district instead.

Notably in certain complex colonial units within the British Empire, the High Commissioner to whom was given the highest ' regional ' supervision ( either residing in one of the constitutive territories, e. g. in the British Western Pacific Territories ( BWPT ), first by the Governor on Fiji, then from 1952 onwards on the Solomon Islands ; or even in a neighbouring colony, e. g. the Governor of the Straits Settlements as High Commissioner for the Federated Malay States ) would commonly be represented in territories not comprising his residence by a Resident Commissioner, though in some places ( including some of the Federated Malay States ) similar officials were formally styled as Residents, a more diplomatic title ; otherwise another type of official was also possible ( e. g. the British Consul in the protected state of Tonga, a Polynesian kingdom ; an Administrator on Nauru ; a mere Chief Magistrate on tiny Pitcairn ).

Detention centres were set up on Christmas Island, Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, and on the tiny island nation of Nauru.

The mining of superphosphate from guano deposits on the tiny South Pacific island of Nauru temporarily made the island one of the richest nations in the world on a per capita basis, but removed most of the soil from the island making 80 % of it unusable.

A caecilian's skin has a large number of transverse folds and in some species contains tiny embedded dermal scales.

The concept that matter is composed of discrete units and cannot be divided into arbitrarily tiny quantities has been around for millennia, but these ideas were founded in abstract, philosophical reasoning rather than experimentation and empirical observation.

Classically, it is forbidden to escape, but according to the ( then ) newly-discovered principles of quantum mechanics, it has a tiny ( but non-zero ) probability of " tunneling " through the barrier and appearing on the other side to escape the nucleus.

The Battle is now in the Alte Pinakothek, which has the best collection of Altdorfer's paintings, including also his small St. George and the Dragon ( 1510 ), in oil on parchment, where the two figures are tiny and almost submerged in the lush, dense forest that towers over them.

Buddhists are a tiny minority ( 105 in 2001, according to Statistics Canada ), although Gampo Abbey in Pleasant Bay has been operational since 1984.

This process continues until all the semolina has been formed into tiny granules of couscous.

The glow is very nearly uniform in all directions, but the tiny remaining variations show a very specific pattern equal to that expected of a fairly uniformly distributed hot gas that has expanded to the current size of the universe.

In a similar vein, the alf found in the fairy tale The Elf of the Rose by Danish author H. C. Andersen is so tiny that he can have a rose blossom for home, and has " wings that reached from his shoulders to his feet ".

For example, the fennec fox ( and other species of fox adapted to life in the desert, such as the kit fox ) has large ears and short fur, whereas the Arctic fox has tiny ears and thick, insulating fur.

One of the fundamental properties of an electron ( besides that it carries charge ) is that it has a dipole moment, i. e. it behaves itself as a tiny magnet.

Our own galaxy ( the Milky Way ) has a tiny satellite galaxy ( the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy ) which is currently gradually being ripped up and " eaten " by the Milky Way.

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Kagoshima is approximately 40 minutes from Kagoshima Airport, and the city features large shopping districts and malls, is served by trams, and has many restaurants featuring Satsuma Province regional cuisine: kibi ( a kind of tiny fish ), tonkatsu ( caramelized pork, as opposed to the breaded version encountered elsewhere in Japan ), smoked eel, and karukan ( sweet cakes made from steamed yams and rice flour ).

It has a fibrous, dull brown-green skin and bright green or golden flesh with rows of tiny, black, edible seeds.

Though holding a tiny share ( 2. 6 %) of the voice market, this new player has captured a majority of the 3G market ( 69. 11 %).

Since it has only a tiny fraction of its parent's radius ( and therefore its moment of inertia is sharply reduced ), a neutron star is formed with very high rotation speed, and then gradually slows down.

Many popular novels are optioned, but only a tiny fraction of these ever materialize as an actual show ; often, a producer who is interested in a particular show has to purchase an option from another producer who originally negotiated with the author.

Although spy cameras small enough to fit inside a pocket-watch had existed since the 1880s, advances in miniaturization and electronics since the 1950s have greatly aided the ability to conceal miniature cameras, and the quality and affordability of tiny cameras ( often called " spy cameras " or subminiature cameras ) has now greatly increased.

It has also been proposed that if a tiny wormhole held open by a negative-mass cosmic string had appeared around the time of the Big Bang, it could have been inflated to macroscopic size by cosmic inflation.

This can be contrasted with current conceptions in quantum physics, where the Planck length, an almost unimaginably tiny quantity, represents reaching that distance scale where, it has been theorized, all measurement seemingly breaks down to that which can be subsumed at this scale, as distance only, or extension.

Because the electron has such a tiny charge, however, shot noise is of relative insignificance in many ( but not all ) cases of electrical conduction.

It has a layer of tiny hexagonal plates called " tesserae ", which are crystal blocks of calcium salts arranged as a mosaic.

When a prosecutor has collected some evidence ( for instance a DNA match ) and has an expert testify that the probability of finding this evidence if the accused were innocent is tiny, the fallacy occurs if it is concluded that the probability of the accused being innocent must be comparably tiny.