The corresponding metric unit using kilometers is the river kilometer.

(iii) Kilometres, minutes and degrees as the standard units for basic orbital parameters

But they are incredibly good fliers. This particular species, it can fly for thousands of kilometers.

In the Arctic, all of those resources are thousands of kilometers away.

The ash forms a column rising many kilometres into the air above the peak of the volcano.

The tar sands are hundreds of square kilometers of bitumen, a viscous and corrosive tarlike deposit.

The island of Borneo is located a few hundred kilometers southwest and Taiwan is located directly to the north.

When you combine them, you get a high energy, hip swaying fusion dance form that bridges the two regions of the world, separated by thousands of kilometers of land and sea.

Since there are electrons in the white dwarf and its volume is on the order of , will be on the order of .

The only signs of the ancient internal activity are canyons and dark polygons dark patches with complex shapes measuring from tens to hundreds of kilometers across.

Desertification has strong adverse impacts on non drylands as well affected areas may sometimes be located thousands of kilometres away from the desertified areas.

Patrolling within the five kilometre zone has been limited to members of the military liaison group, who operate side by side with the Timorese Border Patrol Unit.

As well as the passivity shown in recent days by the Chadian interposition force dispatched to Sibut, a barrier located a hundred kilometers from Bangui

To open up markets for rural inhabitants, FAO is also rehabilitating hundreds of kilometres of small roads, while WFP provides food rations to the project workforce.

Precise measurements by GRACE, the gravity satellite, reveal that both Greenland and Antarctica are now losing mass, several hundred cubic kilometers per year.

Thousands of kilometers away, Syria's Civil Defense volunteers, widely known as the 'White Helmets' because of their white helmets worn during rescue missions, were seen as the choice of many.

In the world s harshest environment, they trekked hundreds of kilometers, surviving on camel milk and dried meat, with all of their possessions strapped to a camel s back.

Mature adults can disperse tens or hundreds of kilometers from their breeding grounds in fresh flowing water, under their own power and assisted by prevailing winds, complicating control efforts.

Then Captain Robert Bartlett walked hundreds of kilometers with Kataktovik, an Inuit man, on the ice of the Chukchi Sea in order to look for help.

Since 1996, Angola had with its partners, surveyed or marked thousands of kilometres and demined millions of square metres, and had destroyed almost 700,000 mines and unexploded ordnance.

Despite claims to the contrary, there is no possible threat to US interests from the islanders return to the outer islands, hundreds of kilometers away from Diego Garcia.

The Marshall Islands had a tiny land size (approximately 180 square kilometres), consisting predominantly of low lying atolls (averaging 2 metres above sea level).

Thousands of people have been forcibly moved to sites in desert areas tens of kilometres outside Khartoum where there are no, or wholly insufficient, life sustaining services.

Other elements of Lee s plan include construction of eco friendly transportation networks, such as high speed railways and hundreds of kilometers of bicycle tracks, and generating energy using waste methane from landfills.

Had BP spilled hundreds of billions of barrels of bitumen across hundreds of square kilometers, environmentalists would rightly demand that no expense be spared to rid the dirt of every trace of oil.

The total area confiscated for settlements or designated as military zones in the Gaza Strip was 165.04 square kilometres, or 45 per cent of the territory of the Strip, accommodating 7,000 settlers.

The stars above and thin crescent moon are insufficient to light up the path, and the walkers rely on the lights of mobile phones to help them stay together as certain family members slow down, exhausted from their travels and the hundreds of kilometres many of them have already covered on foot.

Oman, under the wise leadership of His Majesty the Sultan, has, in the last 35 years, seen its road network grow from 10 kilometres in 1970 to thousands of kilometres, connecting all regions from the north to the south, and from the east to the west.

Although these deaths coincided with the invasion and occupation, the dead animals were found several hundred kilometres outside the oil contaminated coastal areas of Saudi Arabia, and the cause of death is unknown.

For me, the nomad was a romantic figure, akin to the American cowboy of the Wild West. In the world s harshest environment, they trekked hundreds of kilometers, surviving on camel milk and dried meat, with all of their possessions strapped to a camel s back.

Most species stay within their breeding range all year, but make short seasonal movements many individuals of the ptarmigan (called rock ptarmigan in America) and willow grouse (called willow ptarmigan in America) migrate hundreds of kilometers.