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Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration before undertaking any actions that could affect an
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It is also possible in this locality to do nature walking or mountain biking to enter the estuary of the Chilkat River, to contemplate inspiring views of high mountains, observe wild flowers, aquatic birds and migratory oceanic mammals
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Fish and Wildlife Service or the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration before undertaking any actions that could affect an endangered species
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isolated oceanic islands where there were no predators
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It had very little land and seemed almost completely oceanic
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It takes only a negligible amount of energy or disturbance to stir the oceanic energetic void to generate universes
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This experience is coupled with an intensely affective, oceanic or blissful experience
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According to Karl Pribram, a lesion in the temporal lobe near the amygdala can produce something akin to mysticism; there is a disruption in self-awareness, a kind of consciousness-without-content, an oceanic feeling and the loss of the distinction between self and the other
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Hansen and others are finding that small reptiles play an increasingly important role as pollinators on oceanic islands as formerly common bird species disappear
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Trevor was the Oceanic man in this part of the world
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Rory didn't have to see the head of Oceanic until the next day,
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The head office for Oceanic Mining was on one of the upper levels
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owned by Oceanic Mining
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"Well, Oceanic has a half share in a mining venture on the west
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” The oceanic waterbeds under the
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because they could strike from any oceanic coast without warning, just as American submarines constituted a very real threat to Russia
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Why? Because the oceanic
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The scars that were inflicted within her were oceanic
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Stored water, (ice), is the earth’s resource with which the oceanic balances can be maintained thus allowing the fresh water constant to be maintained
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Maintaining the constant of 68,000,000,000 tons of ‘fresh’ water is causing oceanic changes and large land areas are experiencing drought
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The increasing concentrations of salt and other minerals in the world’s oceans could have a big impact on oceanic life affecting food sources, food chains and ultimately lead to long term effects on the atmosphere
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If the oceans are able to regenerate then there is a chance that weather will become less extreme, the oceanic food chain will return to a healthier state, the world’s oxygen / carbon dioxide ratio will remain optimum for us to be comfortable
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Where the Earth has a large amount of stored water (ice) the temperature drops, oceanic life is abundant we experience an ice age
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This is the power of the love we are immersed in – ten years from now, one memory, one sacred tear, one teaspoon of our oceanic bliss will send us communally transcendent basking in the radiance the stain our space has timed
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When one meditates today, if they are communing with the Earth, there will not only be simple feelings of oceanic bliss and global peace, but also panic, confusion, and rage from the threat of catastrophes and the inevitability of emotional chaos
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upset oceanic and atmospheric circulation and led to the
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It is not the mystical feeling of being one with the One and of losing oneself in the oceanic joy this fusion offers, but of completely and humbly dedicating oneself to the creation of secondary beauty, which is the goal of Life
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” An oceanic vista
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I was lost in her blue oceanic eyes, which she soon noticed and felt a little shy
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The Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research,
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The new, while better, always seems to lack something the old has, at least until it settles within the dark expanse of an artist’s oceanic mind
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It had only worked when oceanic shipping had been practiced by a small group of European sailing nations whose Kings had the money, technology and will to charter expensive naval expeditions
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I turned instantly, unbalanced for a moment staring into his eyes which were oceanic blue this morning
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and languidly at peace in the oceanic heights of their world
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For a minute, he was wordless, gazing through those oceanic eyes that reflected the depths of her very apologetic soul
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There were whitish eels of the species Gymnotus fasciatus that passed like elusive wisps of steam, conger eels three to four meters long that were tricked out in green, blue, and yellow, three–foot hake with a liver that makes a dainty morsel, wormfish drifting like thin seaweed, sea robins that poets call lyrefish and seamen pipers and whose snouts have two jagged triangular plates shaped like old Homer's lyre, swallowfish swimming as fast as the bird they're named after, redheaded groupers whose dorsal fins are trimmed with filaments, some shad (spotted with black, gray, brown, blue, yellow, and green) that actually respond to tinkling handbells, splendid diamond–shaped turbot that were like aquatic pheasants with yellowish fins stippled in brown and the left topside mostly marbled in brown and yellow, finally schools of wonderful red mullet, real oceanic birds of paradise that ancient Romans bought for as much as 10,000 sesterces apiece, and which they killed at the table, so they could heartlessly watch it change color from cinnabar red when alive to pallid white when dead
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It was on this oceanic river that the Nautilus was then navigating
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They were a small portion of the Pacific Ring of Fire, a 25,000-mile-long series of volcanoes and oceanic trenches that rim the Pacific Ocean in a horseshoe shape from Chile, up along the western edge of Central and North America, across to Russia and Japan, and down through Indonesia and New Zealand, before culminating in Antarctica
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The cuckoo was, in fact, soon to pop out, its grinding windup beginning over my head—a sound that inevitably made my jaw tense—when the camera crews outside emitted a loud, collective, oceanic wushing
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He turned to weave away into the warm, oceanic Los Angeles night
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Managed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (1984–2000) and by the US Geological Survey (USGS, 2001–13) as part of the Landsat Program, it has completed more than 150,000 orbits of Earth and sent back more than 2
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But no especial change in ship-building was introduced until 1870, when the Oceanic Company, now known as the White Star Line, built the Britannic and Germanic
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In the first White Star ship, the Oceanic, the improvements above mentioned were introduced, the saloons and staterooms being brought as near as possible to the center of the ship
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Fleet said he had had five or six years' experience at sea and was lookout on the Oceanic prior to going on the Titanic
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If we turn to nature to test the truth of these remarks, and look at any small isolated area, such as an oceanic island, although the number of the species inhabiting it is small, as we shall see in our chapter on Geographical Distribution; yet of these species a very large proportion are endemic,—that is, have been produced there and nowhere else in the world
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Hence an oceanic island at first sight seems to have been highly favourable for the production of new species
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As the larger ground-feeding birds seldom take flight except to escape danger, it is probable that the nearly wingless condition of several birds, now inhabiting or which lately inhabited several oceanic islands, tenanted by no beasts of prey, has been caused by disuse
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Petrels are the most aerial and oceanic of birds, but, in the quiet sounds of Tierra del Fuego, the Puffinuria berardi, in its general habits, in its astonishing power of diving, in its manner of swimming and of flying when made to take flight, would be mistaken by any one for an auk or a grebe; nevertheless, it is essentially a petrel, but with many parts of its organisation profoundly modified in relation to its new habits of life; whereas the woodpecker of La Plata has had its structure only slightly modified
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Oceanic islands are inhabited by bats and seals, but by no terrestrial mammals; yet as some of these bats are peculiar species, they must have long inhabited their present homes
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Lyell asks, and assigns certain reasons in answer, why have not seals and bats given birth on such islands to forms fitted to live on the land? But seals would necessarily be first converted into terrestrial carnivorous animals of considerable size, and bats into terrestrial insectivorous animals; for the former there would be no prey; for the bats ground-insects would serve as food, but these would already be largely preyed on by the reptiles or birds, which first colonise and abound on most oceanic islands
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But seals would not find on oceanic islands the conditions favourable to their gradual reconversion into a terrestrial form
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Looking to the existing oceans, which are thrice as extensive as the land, we see them studded with many islands; but hardly one truly oceanic island (with the exception of New Zealand, if this can be called a truly oceanic island) is as yet known to afford even a remnant of any palaeozoic or secondary formation
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It seems to me that we have abundant evidence of great oscillations in the level of the land or sea; but not of such vast changes in the position and extension of our continents, as to have united them within the recent period to each other and to the several intervening oceanic islands
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But I do not believe that it will ever be proved that within the recent period most of our continents which now stand quite separate, have been continuously, or almost continuously united with each other, and with the many existing oceanic islands
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The nature and relative proportions of the inhabitants of oceanic islands are likewise opposed to the belief of their former continuity of continents
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All these causes tend towards the same end; but the most powerful appears to be the indirect influence of the eccentricity of the orbit upon oceanic currents
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Distribution of fresh-water productions—On the inhabitants of oceanic
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These just-hatched molluscs, though aquatic in their nature, survived on the duck's feet, in damp air, from twelve to twenty hours; and in this length of time a duck or heron might fly at least six or seven hundred miles, and if blown across the sea to an oceanic island, or to any other distant point, would be sure to alight on a pool or rivulet
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With respect to plants, it has long been known what enormous ranges many fresh-water, and even marsh-species, have, both over continents and to the most remote oceanic islands
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ON THE INHABITANTS OF OCEANIC ISLANDS
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The species of all kinds which inhabit oceanic islands are few in number compared with those on equal continental areas: Alph
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We have evidence that the barren island of Ascension aboriginally possessed less than half-a-dozen flowering plants; yet many species have now become naturalised on it, as they have in New Zealand and on every other oceanic island which can be named
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He who admits the doctrine of the creation of each separate species, will have to admit that a sufficient number of the best adapted plants and animals were not created for oceanic islands; for man has unintentionally stocked them far more fully and perfectly than did nature
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Although in oceanic islands the species are few in number, the proportion of endemic kinds (i
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Oceanic islands are sometimes deficient in animals of certain whole classes, and their places are occupied by other classes; thus in the Galapagos Islands reptiles, and in New Zealand gigantic wingless birds, take, or recently took, the place of mammals
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Although New Zealand is here spoken of as an oceanic island, it is in some degree doubtful whether it should be so ranked; it is of large size, and is not separated from Australia by a profoundly deep sea; from its geological character and the direction of its mountain ranges, the Rev
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Many remarkable little facts could be given with respect to the inhabitants of oceanic islands
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Hence trees would be little likely to reach distant oceanic islands; and an herbaceous plant, which had no chance of successfully competing with the many fully developed trees growing on a continent, might, when established on an island, gain an advantage over other herbaceous plants by growing taller and taller and overtopping them
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ABSENCE OF BATRACHIANS AND TERRESTRIAL MAMMALS ON OCEANIC ISLANDS
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With respect to the absence of whole orders of animals on oceanic islands, Bory St
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But I have already remarked that it is doubtful whether New Zealand and New Caledonia ought to be classed as oceanic islands; and this is still more doubtful with respect to the Andaman and Solomon groups and the Seychelles
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This general absence of frogs, toads and newts on so many true oceanic islands cannot be accounted for by their physical conditions; indeed it seems that islands are peculiarly fitted for these animals; for frogs have been introduced into Madeira, the Azores, and Mauritius, and have multiplied so as to become a nuisance
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But as these animals and their spawn are immediately killed (with the exception, as far as known, of one Indian species) by sea-water, there would be great difficulty in their transportal across the sea, and therefore we can see why they do not exist on strictly oceanic islands
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The Falkland Islands, which are inhabited by a wolf-like fox, come nearest to an exception; but this group cannot be considered as oceanic, as it lies on a bank in connection with the mainland at a distance of about 280 miles; moreover, icebergs formerly brought boulders to its western shores, and they may have formerly transported foxes, as now frequently happens in the arctic regions
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Although terrestrial mammals do not occur on oceanic islands, aerial mammals do occur on almost every island
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Hence, we have only to suppose that such wandering species have been modified in their new homes in relation to their new position, and we can understand the presence of endemic bats on oceanic islands, with the absence of all other terrestrial mammals
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The foregoing statements in regard to the inhabitants of oceanic islands, namely, the fewness of the species, with a large proportion consisting of endemic forms—the members of certain groups, but not those of other groups in the same class, having been modified—the absence of certain whole orders, as of batrachians and of terrestrial mammals, notwithstanding the presence of aerial bats, the singular proportions of certain orders of plants, herbaceous forms having been developed into trees, etc
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, seem to me to accord better with the belief in the efficiency of occasional means of transport, carried on during a long course of time, than with the belief in the former connection of all oceanic islands with the nearest continent; for on this latter view it is probable that the various classes would have immigrated more uniformly, and from the species having entered in a body, their mutual relations would not have been much disturbed, and consequently, they would either have not been modified, or all the species in a more equable manner
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Almost all oceanic islands, even the most isolated and smallest, are inhabited by land-shells, generally by endemic species, but sometimes by species found elsewhere striking instances of which have been given by Dr
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The same principle which governs the general character of the inhabitants of oceanic islands, namely, the relation to the source whence colonists could have been most easily derived, together with their subsequent modification, is of the widest application throughout nature
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On these same principles we can understand, as I have endeavoured to show, why oceanic islands should have few inhabitants, but that of these, a large proportion should be endemic or peculiar; and why, in relation to the means of migration, one group of beings should have all its species peculiar, and another group, even within the same class, should have all its species the same with those in an adjoining quarter of the world
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We can see why whole groups of organisms, as batrachians and terrestrial mammals, should be absent from oceanic islands, whilst the most isolated islands should possess their own peculiar species of aerial mammals or bats
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It would at first lead by slow steps to the more and more complete reduction of a part, until at last it became rudimentary—as in the case of the eyes of animals inhabiting dark caverns, and of the wings of birds inhabiting oceanic islands, which have seldom been forced by beasts of prey to take flight, and have ultimately lost the power of flying
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On this view of migration, with subsequent modification, we see why oceanic islands are inhabited by only few species, but of these, why many are peculiar or endemic forms
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We clearly see why species belonging to those groups of animals which cannot cross wide spaces of the ocean, as frogs and terrestrial mammals, do not inhabit oceanic islands; and why, on the other hand, new and peculiar species of bats, animals which can traverse the ocean, are often found on islands far distant from any continent
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Such cases as the presence of peculiar species of bats on oceanic islands and the absence of all other terrestrial mammals, are facts utterly inexplicable on the theory of independent acts of creation
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Climate, connection with atmospheric and oceanic currents, W
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