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And you can see from this map, there's this incredible geographical signature of a series of islands that were out in the harbor and a matrix of salt marshes and beaches that served as natural wave attenuation for the upland settlement.
And this is also true of some remote oceanic islands.
But we do find it in Papua New Guinea and in other islands in Melanesia and the Pacific.
And in that image there, you see a variety of islands of what I call image-making regions in the brain.
And something else that happens is that those image-making regions where you have the plotting of all these neural maps, can then provide signals to this ocean of purple that you see around, which is the association cortex, where you can make records of what went on in those islands of image-making.
One of those small islands that was remote and impossible to get to was a site of Soviet biological weapons testing.
Perhaps there are other things that we're just not thinking about yet, but that's one idea to think about, urban islands.
These islands are between Norway and the North Pole.
The men knew that the nearest islands they could reach were the Marquesas Islands, 1,200 miles away.
They'd been told that these islands, and several others nearby, were populated by cannibals.
Terrified of cannibals, they decided to forgo the closest islands and instead embarked on the longer and much more difficult route to South America.
The rooms in this building are like islands in an archipelago, and what that means is that mechanical engineers are like eco-engineers, and they have the ability to structure biomes in this building the way that they want to.
And there they survive on the mainland until about 10,000 years ago, and actually, surprisingly, on the small islands off of Siberia and Alaska until about 3,000 years ago.
So Egyptians are building pyramids and woollies are still living on islands.
In 2001, at the age of 22, I took a job as head of housekeeping at Vundumtiki Camp in the Okavango Delta ... a patchwork mosaic of channels, floodplains, lagoons and thousands upon thousands of islands to explore.
So, the examples that I gave you are these islands of mesh networks, and networks are interesting only as they are big.
These islands — Mauritius, Rodrigues, and Réunion — along with the island of Madagascar, they are blessed with unique plants found nowhere else in the world.
There are islands and even continents that were first reached by bamboo rafts.
He has bought land in Fiji as an insurance policy, what he calls, "migration with dignity," because he knows that his people may have to leave their islands.
President Tong told me about his ambitious idea to either build up or even float the little islands where his people live.
They are islands unto themselves.
Scientists consider those mountains as islands in time, being separated from the surrounding lowlands since tens of millions of years ago.
Christoph Wachter: Well, Lesbos is one of the Greek islands close to Turkey, and during our stay, many asylum seekers arrived by boat on overcrowded dinghies, and after landing, they were left completely on their own.
They nest on the most remote islands in the oceans of the world, and this is what it looks like.
But Kiribati is comprised of three groups of islands: the Gilbert Group on the west, we have the Phoenix Islands in the middle, and the Line Islands in the east.
These islands are entirely made up of coral atolls, and on average about two meters above sea level.
They have had to move, and every parliament session, I'm getting complaints from different communities asking for assistance to build seawalls, to see what we can do about the freshwater lens because it's being destroyed, and so in my trips to the different islands, I'm seeing evidence of communities which are now having to cope with the loss of food crops, the contamination of the water lenses, and I see these communities perhaps leaving, having to relocate, within five to 10 years.
But for the first time, at the beginning of this year, the Cyclone Pam, which destroyed Vanuatu, and in the process, the very edges of it actually touched our two southernmost islands, and all of Tuvalu was underwater when Hurricane Pam struck.
But for our two southernmost islands, we had waves come over half the island, and so this has never happened before.
And on one occasion, I think I spoke in Geneva and there was a gentleman who was interviewing me on something like this, and I said, "We are looking at floating islands," and he thought it was funny, but somebody said, "No, this is not funny.
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