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By contrast, remote European populations that reside on islands or along ocean shores and are not surrounded by other populations (for example, Orcadians and French) were predicted to be B1,200 km from their true origin, due to the higher density of nearby populations in the reference ...
Precise modeling of CO2emissions is important for environmental research. This paper presents a new model of human population dynamics that can be embedded into ESMs (Earth System Models) to improve climate modeling. Through a system dynamics approach, we develop a cohort-component model that success...
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The main airport, for both international and internal traffic, is on the northern shores of Botany Bay, to the south of the city.Port Jackson(Sydney Harbour) is one of the major ports in Australia. A second port has been developed inBotany Bay, 10 miles (16 km) to the south, to hand...
England is bounded on the north byScotland; on the west by theIrish Sea,Wales, and the Atlantic Ocean; on the south by theEnglish Channel; and on the east by theNorth Sea. Relief England England’stopographyis low in elevation but, except in the east, rarely flat. Much of it consists...
Also known as: Ocean State, The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Written by J. Stanley Lemons Emeritus Professor of History, Rhode Island College.coauthor,Rhode Island: The Independent State; coauthor,The Elect: Rhode Island's Women Legislators, 1922-90. ...
most of which have dried up because of excessivegroundwaterpumping, historically flowed into the Colorado River toward thePacific Ocean. The southern limit of theGreat Basinreaches to just 15 miles (24 km) north of Las Vegas; its waters, which have no outlet to the sea, disappear into a va...
Haiti is bordered to the east by theDominican Republic, which covers the rest of Hispaniola, to the south and west by the Caribbean, and to the north by theAtlantic Ocean.Cubalies some 50 miles (80 km) west of Haiti’s northern peninsula, across theWindward Passage, a strait connecting ...
New Zealand, islandcountryin the SouthPacific Ocean, the southwesternmost part of Polynesia. New Zealand is a remote land—one of the last sizable territories suitable for habitation to be populated and settled—and lies more than 1,000 miles (1,600 km) southeast ofAustralia, its nearest neigh...