Recent Examples on the WebThe largest of the Bahamas’ 30 inhabited islands, Andros encompasses 100 miles of clear coastline, abundant wildlife, and an intricate underwater system that sits close to the third-largest barrier reef in the world.—Kristin Braswell, Travel + Leisure, 18 Apr. 2024 The system then fires interceptor missiles at the incoming rockets that seem most likely to hit an inhabited area.—Brian Barrett, WIRED, 14 Apr. 2024 Sources: Reasons to be Cheerful Tuvalu’s effort to create a digital nation is preserving heritage amid the sea levels that threaten it
Scientists say rising tides could render the small country of nine inhabited islands, located roughly halfway between Australia and Hawaii, uninhabitable by 2100.—Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2024 The typical inhabited island is likewise rich in sunshine and warmth and has access to a shallow lagoon, palm trees and maybe a mangrove forest.—Maahil Mohamed Elke Scholiers, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2024 Grand Isle Best known for its deep-sea fishing and birding habitat, Louisiana's Grand Isle is the state's only inhabited barrier island.—Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 22 Mar. 2024 The pallet is the largest object ever thrown out from the ISS, but NASA had hoped that the entire thing would burn up upon reentry or that at least the debris would not hit inhabited areas.—Passant Rabie / Gizmodo, Quartz, 2 Apr. 2024 As for the last inhabited place to ring in the New Year, that's the islands of Niue and American Samoa to the southwest of Kiribati in the South Pacific.—Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2023 The Path Down The safest way to bring the ISS down to Earth, NASA officials say, is to dump it into the sparsely inhabited expanses of the southern Pacific Ocean to reduce the odds of harm.—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 21 Nov. 2023
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