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    Sky islands are isolated mountains surrounded by radically different lowland environments. The term originally referred to those found on the Mexican...
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    Sky Island: Being the Further Adventures of Trot and Cap'n Bill after Their Visit to the Sea Fairies is a children's fantasy novel written by L. Frank...
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  • Dark Sky Island is the eighth studio album by Irish singer, songwriter, and musician Enya, released on 20 November 2015 by Warner Bros. Records. After...
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  • Island in the Sky or Islands in the Sky may refer to: Floating island (fiction), a fictional landmass that floats in the sky Island in the Sky (1953 film)...
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    The Madrean Sky Islands are enclaves of Madrean pine–oak woodlands, found at higher elevations in a complex of small mountain ranges in southern and southeastern...
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    to create programs. DarkSky International (DarkSky) uses "International Dark Sky Reserve" (IDSR) and "International Dark Sky Park" (IDSP) among others...
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  • A sky island is a mountain range isolated by valleys in which other ecosystems are located. Sky island may also refer to: Sky Islands, an album by Ramsey...
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  • Sky Reserve, South Island, New Zealand, designated 2012 Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales, United Kingdom, designated 2013 Central Idaho Dark Sky Reserve...
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    recording studio in 2012 to begin work on her eighth studio album Dark Sky Island (2015). Regarding a new album, there have been several mentions by close...
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    Sark (redirect from Sark Island)
    are allowed. In 2011, Sark was designated as a Dark Sky Community and the first Dark Sky Island in the world. Sark consists of two main parts, Greater...
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  • Islands in the Sky is a 1952 science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. It is one of his earliest works. Clarke wrote the story as a travelogue...
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    wetter than the Tucson Mountains. The Rincons, as one of the Madrean Sky Islands between the southern Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Madre Oriental in...
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  • Look up SKY, Sky, sky, or -sky in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The sky is the area above the Earth as seen from the ground. Sky or SKY may also refer...
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  • International Dark-Sky Association designations: Galloway Forest Park – Dark Sky Park (2009) Sark – IDA's first international dark-sky island (Silver tier)...
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    Gulliver's Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift, the island city of Laputa was revealed to be floating in the sky. Laputa purportedly levitated through use of...
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  • "Island in the Sky" is a Disney comics story written and drawn by Carl Barks. It was published in Uncle Scrooge #29, March 1960. The asteroid 2730 Barks...
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  • Island in the Sky is a 1953 American aviation adventure drama film written by Ernest K. Gann based on his 1944 novel of the same name, directed by William...
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  • Sky Islands is the second album by Jazz fusion group Caldera released in 1977 on Capitol Records. The album rose to No. 18 on the Cashbox Top 40 Jazz...
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    and Shoe Islands are also part of the Michigan Islands Wilderness Area. April 8, 2024 Beaver Island was declared an international dark sky sanctuary...
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  • Castle in the Sky (Japanese: 天空の城ラピュタ, Hepburn: Tenkū no Shiro Rapyuta), also known as Laputa: Castle in the Sky, is a 1986 Japanese animated fantasy adventure...
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  • The sixth season of the One Piece anime series, split into two "Sky Island" chapters, was produced by Toei Animation, and directed by Konosuke Uda based...
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  • MS Island Sky is a 118 berth cruise ship owned and operated by London-based cruise company Noble Caledonia. On 19 July 2021 it became the first cruise...
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    northwest Chihuahua and northeast Sonora contain insular sky island mountain ranges, (the Madrean Sky Islands), or smaller subranges in association. There are...
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  • Wild (2017), and features new environments including the Sky, an area composed of floating islands, and an expansive cavern beneath Hyrule known as the Depths...
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    escaping summer's heat and cyclists, and has been recently designated as the Sky Island Parkway, part of the US National Scenic Byway system. 2010 saw the inaugural...
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  • have occurred. Disturbance (ecology) Island ecology Mammals of the Caribbean Patch dynamics Distance decay Sky island Brown, James H. (1978). "The Theory...
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  • The regional major and minor mountain regions called Madrean Sky Islands, the sky islands region of southeast Arizona, extreme southwest New Mexico, and...
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    Madrean pine–oak woodlands (category Madrean Sky Islands mountain ranges)
    western Texas, where they are known as the "Madrean sky islands". The major Madrean "sky island" ranges in Arizona are the Dragoon Mountains, Chiricahua...
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    was the thought of [a ruler] of a great island which floats in space [and] is a place of eternal peace." Sky Woman fell down to the earth when it was...
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  • scenic route located in Pima County in southern Arizona. Also known as the Sky Island Scenic Byway, the Mount Lemmon Highway and Arizona Forest Highway 39,...
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