In the Maldive Archipelago all gradations between crescent-shaped islets and complete atoll rings have been observed.
Thus the rock bench is often set with stacks, islets in all stages of destruction, and sunken reefs,--all wrecks of the land testifying to its retreat before the incessant attack of the waves.
The summit is a plateau surrounded by a rim of hills of reef formation, which represent the ring of islets of an ancient atoll.
I shall delight to pass the shores of those lone rock-islets where the sea-birds live and breed unmolested.
Some of his ships sheltered themselves during the same storm on certain islets near to and belonging to Klazomenæ; on which they remained eight days, destroying and plundering the property of the inhabitants, and then rejoined Astyochus.
There are close upon a thousand inhabitants on the parent isle and the attendant flock of little islets sheltered under its wing.
The Isle of Bréhat is another of those rocky islets which dot the coast of Brittany, and look not only as if they were barren and uncultivated, but as if they were also uninhabited.
There are numerous isles andislets to pass on the way, and the Chaussée des Pierres Noires is a roughly strewn ledge which breathes danger in the very spray continually flying over it.
After passing the western islet the south side of the strait should be given a wide berth, particularly on approaching Cape Portland, off which some islets with foul ground and a sunken rock at their extreme, extend two miles and a half.
This was found to stand on a projection, with two small rocky islets on either side.
Three small islets lie close to the south-west point, and a reef extends a cable's length off the northern.
This is also the case with the south-east extreme, off which a reef extends for about half a mile; indeed, there appeared to be no ship passage between the sandy islets that lie to the east of Pulo Douw and Rottee.
Two small islets front a boat-cove on the north-east side, where there is fresh water; and outside these there is a rock just awash.
Angles were taken for fixing the position of the islets between Pulo Douw and Rottee, which we found to be wrongly placed.
From the masthead I got a tolerably good view of the island, in some places scarcely a cable wide, and a number of isletsscattered to the north-west.
I myself believe the whole extent from Maison to Barrow's Island is occupied by islets and reefs, probably all connected.
A mile and a half to the southward of Gun Island, opposite a singular-looking indentation in the outer side of the reefs, a small cluster of cliffy islets approaches within half a mile of them.
According to the fabulous stories of the natives, the islets of mica-slate, situate in lake Amucu, augment by their reflection the lustre of the nebulae of the southern sky.
Towards evening we observed flights of duck--chiefly wigeon--pouring in constant streams towards some low mud-islets which afforded cover for approach.
The larger Gull-billed Tern (Sterna anglica) breeds only on the islets of the marisma.
We have already described the archipelago of islets that lay far towards the eastern shore, and on which we had found the rare gulls, and such a variety of waders and other aquatic birds breeding (p.
To seaward he could gaze down a vista of rocky and deserted islets resembling slag heaps, where the sinking sun showed like a red-hot spot in the huge, coppered oven in which he found himself.
Whenever a fair chance offered Karaki landed on the lee of some one of the tiny islets with which the Santa Cruz region is peppered and would make shift to cook rice and potatoes in the tin dipper.
On the islets of the little Madeira group there are many insects which are characterized as varieties in Mr. Wollaston's admirable work, but which it cannot be doubted would be ranked as distinct species by many entomologists.
The rocks and islets lying round her are numerous and lovely, for the sea runs in and out among them, crisp with motion and light with foam; and their shores are everywhere green with mosses and fringed with forests of birch and pine.
A rock on the North Cape is called the Friar; a group of islets near that cape is known as the Mother and her Daughters.
Like all great rivers, the Dvina has thrown up a delta of isles and islets near her mouth, through which she pours her flood into the sea by a dozen arms.
These seem to fill, without order or defined limit of dominion, the vast area from the borders of the Rhine and Danube to the Baltic Sea, and the mainland and innumerable islets of Scandinavia.
They went to kneel with uplifted hands amid the sands of the Libyan Desert, or the wooded mountains of Lebanon; to implore mercy on a wicked world, amid the islets of the Tyrrhenian Sea, or in the rocky caves of the Thebaid.
The islets are flat, and afford evidence that at one time the continental ice-cap has ridden over them.
The seaward margin is deeply indented, and the islets off shore tell of a continuation of the rugged, rocky surface below the sea.
A break in the icy monotony came with a short tract of islets fronting a background of dark rocky coastline similar to that at Cape Denison but more extensive.
These latter islets lie about eight miles to the north of North Head, and are merely rocks about eighty feet high upon which thousands of shags and other birds have established rookeries.
Close to the "Pianoforte Berg" and the Mackellar Islets tall jets of fine spray were seen to shoot upward from schools of finner whales.
During the morning Ninnis drew our attention to what appeared to be small ice-capped islets fringing the coast, but the distance was too great for us to be sure of their exact nature.
During the evening the crevassed slopes of the mainland rose clear to the south, and many isletswere observed near the coast, frozen in a wide expanse of bay-ice.
The traverse-line was carried close to the ice-cliff, so that the number of islets hidden from view was as few as possible.
With few exceptions these reservations are either small rocky islets or tracts of marsh land of no agricultural value.
By this act, we may feel that for the future the birds of Laysan and neighboring islets are secure from further attacks by the bloody-handed agents of the vain women who still insist upon wearing the wings and feathers of wild birds.
Gliding in upon Yammo, its many islets greeted us like a little Mardi; but ever and anon we started at long lines of phantoms in the water, reflections of the long line of images on the shore.
The coast is deeply indented by bays, some of which afford good anchorage, though the island is surrounded by innumerable rocky islets or keys.
One of the islets outside the harbour of Marseilles bore the name of Phœnice.
As early as 1557 the Portuguese had established a settlement on the island of Macao, one of these numerous islets that fill the estuary of the river of Canton.
The smaller groups and islets were almost as thoroughly exploited.
These islets were clothed with wood, among which the cocoa-nut trees were only distinguishable.
A very small part of it was land, which consisted of little islets ranged along the north side, and connected by sand-banks and breakers.
With this view, after making a trip to the south, to weather the shoals under our lee, we stood to the north, in hopes of finding anchorage under some of the islets on which these trees grow.
Indeed, it would have taken up far more time than I could spare to have surveyed these parts minutely; as there lies a number of small islets and reefs of rocks along the N.
In short, this bank wants only a few little islets to make it exactly like one of the half-drowned isles so often mentioned.
They occupy a space of ten degrees of latitude by eight of longitude, and they are connected by groups of small islets to New Guinea on the east, the Philippines on the north, Celebes on the west, and Timor on the south.
Point Adelaide with two small islets off it, connected by a sand bank, forms the western boundary of the cove, and is distant about half a mile from Point William.
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