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This sea is an archipelago belonging to Kiribati that spans across the equator and it has several uninhabited, unfished, pristine islands and a few inhabited islands.
These are animals that can practically swim from the equator to the poles and can crisscross entire oceans in the course of a year.
We evolved as a species near the equator, and so we're very well-equipped to deal with 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness.
The dialogues don't just border on the ridiculous - it's fair to say that it's miles south of the border, let alone the equator.
Strange gas erupts from the earth and mysterious red lights appear out of nowhere, causing the world's population to slowly die off as this unknown menace moves from the North & South Poles toward the equator.
The Power of Empowering RefugeesKAMPALA – In a small community on the equator, children from diverse backgrounds attend classes in one of the region’s top primary schools.
Cocoa trees thrive in just a thin band of countries along the equator, where the climate is warm and humid.
It will be heavier than three Eiffel Towers; the material for its superconducting magnets would stretch around the equator twice; and it has a price tag of more than €15 billion ($16.8 billion), making it one of the largest international science endeavors in history.
Singapore’s success is all the more remarkable given that proximity to the equator is usually associated with weak growth and poverty.
Much of Africa north of the equator continues to be violent and potentially explosive.
The towering Himalayan Highlands, particularly Tibet, influence the Northern Hemisphere’s atmospheric-circulation system, which helps to transport warm air from the equator toward the poles, sustaining a variety of climate zones along the way.
Shifting weather patterns could then fuel migration to richer countries at levels that make today’s immigration crisis seem trivial, particularly given that poor countries and emerging markets typically are closer to the equator and in more vulnerable climates.
For those living closer to the equator and away from the drizzle and fog of the British Isles, such garments have long been anathema.
They produce over half of the world’s oxygen, and transport heat from the equator to the poles, thus regulating our climate.
On July 20 we cut the Tropic of Capricorn at longitude 105 degrees, and by the 27th of the same month, we had cleared the equator on the 110th meridian.
On December 1 it cut the equator at longitude 142 degrees, and on the 4th of the same month, after a quick crossing marked by no incident, we raised the Marquesas Islands.
The next day, January 26, we cut the equator on the 82nd meridian and we reentered the northern hemisphere.
As far as the equator this whole seafloor is still under construction by plutonic forces.
Until now it's the bowhead whale you've hunted, and it won't risk going past the warm waters of the equator."
Now I ask you, after it had been wounded west of America, how could this animal be killed in the east, unless it had cleared the equator and doubled Cape Horn or the Cape of Good Hope?""I agree with our friend Ned," Conseil said, "and I'm waiting to hear how master will reply to him."
As it was, in the five and a half months since fate had brought us on board, we had cleared 14,000 leagues, and over this track longer than the earth's equator, so many fascinating or frightening incidents had beguiled our voyage: that hunting trip in the Crespo forests, our running aground in the Torres Strait, the coral cemetery, the pearl fisheries of Ceylon, the Arabic tunnel, the fires of Santorini, those millions in the Bay of Vigo, Atlantis, the South Pole!
These banks are the result of marine sedimentation, an extensive accumulation of organic waste brought either from the equator by the Gulf Stream's current, or from the North Pole by the countercurrent of cold water that skirts the American coast.
The tick escaped from Tom, presently, and crossed the equator.
There were no 'climates' as yet, and a torrid heat, equal from pole to equator, was spread over the whole surface of the globe.
Its ravages were terrible in America, Europe, and Asia, covering a distance of eighteen hundred miles, and extending obliquely to the equator from the thirty-fifth north parallel to the fortieth south parallel.
The cold was comparable to that experienced in the States of New England, situated at almost the same distance from the equator.
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