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Marine debris in Trindade Island, a remote island of the South Atlantic
Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2018Marine debris is widespread in oceans worldwide, including the most remote locations. Here, for the first time, we report macro-debris accumulation on beaches of Trindade Island, a remote island 1160 km from mainland Brazil. High debris density was recorded on windward, east-coast beaches, which are exposed to wind-driven currents.
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Nature, 1948
MR. WILLIAMSON has published a notable book on the Faeroe Islands, where he was stationed during the war years. IRe is the better qualified in that he married a Faeroese wife. The Atlantic Islands A Study of the Faeroe Life and Scene. By Kenneth Williamson. Pp. 360 + 23 plates. (London and Glasgow : Wm. Collins, Sons and Co., Ltd., 1948.) 16s. net.
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MR. WILLIAMSON has published a notable book on the Faeroe Islands, where he was stationed during the war years. IRe is the better qualified in that he married a Faeroese wife. The Atlantic Islands A Study of the Faeroe Life and Scene. By Kenneth Williamson. Pp. 360 + 23 plates. (London and Glasgow : Wm. Collins, Sons and Co., Ltd., 1948.) 16s. net.
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Inishbofin--An Atlantic Island
Economic Geography, 1958I RELAND'S decline in population has been made possible by the availability of work elsewhere for her people. This article deals with one of the poorest and most isolated districts of the country, an island off the west coast which, for over 60 years, has received government help in various forms, as well as money from relations in America and in ...
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1973
Since Darwin’s observations during the voyage of the Beagle (1831–1836), the islands of the South Atlantic have figured prominently in the geologic exploration of the ocean basins. The small number of widely scattered islands considered here extend from the Tropic of Cancer to the Southern Ocean (Fig.
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Since Darwin’s observations during the voyage of the Beagle (1831–1836), the islands of the South Atlantic have figured prominently in the geologic exploration of the ocean basins. The small number of widely scattered islands considered here extend from the Tropic of Cancer to the Southern Ocean (Fig.
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MELANIC BLACKCAPS IN THE ATLANTIC ISLANDS.
Ibis, 1951SUMMARY.1. The blackcap Sylvia atricapilkz is resident on the Cape Verdes, the Azores, Madeira and the Canaries, and birds of the last two have been separated as a local endemic race, S. a. obscura, distinguished by darker plumage.2. On Madeira and the Canaries the blackcap occupies mainly the cultivated and settled zones, so that their numbers must ...
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Ecological Speciation in South Atlantic Island Finches
Science, 2007Examples of sympatric speciation in nature are rare and hotly debated. We describe the parallel speciation of finches on two small islands in the Tristan da Cunha archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean. Nesospiza buntings are a classic example of a simple adaptive radiation, with two species on each island: an ...
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Canary Islands and Atlantic Tsunamis
Science, 2001GEOLOGY Recently, giant submarine landslides, including some more than 20 kilometers long, have been recognized around Hawaii. Some slides may be responsible for generating large Pacific Ocean tsunamis. Krastel et al. have now identified a large number of submarine slides in the Canary Islands in the central Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa. Like
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Portugal and the Portuguese Atlantic Islands
1997Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the localization, frequency and seriousness of potential hazards for the seismic hazards, volcanic hazards, mass movements, river flooding and coastal erosion in Portugal and the Portuguese Atlantic Islands. The Portuguese mainland and its southern part is located close to the Azores–Gibraltar plate boundary ...
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Iceland—An Island in the North Atlantic
2018Iceland, a 103,000 km2 island, meets the Green Sea to the north, the Norwegian Sea on the east and mainly the Atlantic Ocean on the south and west. The Greenland Strait lies between the southeast of Greenland and the northwest. Jan Mayen, a Norwegian island, is situated northeast of the strait.
Wolfgang Fraedrich, Neli Heidari
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Ciguatera Fish Poisoning in the Caribbean Islands and Western Atlantic
2001Ciguatera fish poisoning (ciguatera), a common poisoning caused by fish ingestion, is reviewed in the Western Atlantic and the Caribbean waters. It is endemic from Florida coasts (northern limit) to Martinique Island (southern limit), with outbreaks occurring from time to time.
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