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  • The Mumbwa tenement covers an area of about 500 square-kilometers west of Lusaka, and Blackthorn said it is being explored for iron oxide copper-gold mineralization similar to BHP's Olympic Dam mine in Australia.

    BHP Expected to Decide on Zambia Venture by Midyear Robb M. Stewart 2011

  • The total area of the Arctic Ocean drainage basin, together with the adjacent Hudson Bay and Bering Sea drainage basins, is about 24 million square-kilometers (km2) [9].

    Freshwater discharge in the Arctic 2009

  • Arctic sea ice extent, including all subpolar seas except the Baltic, ranges from about 7 million square-kilometers (km2) at its September minimum to about 15 million km2 at its March maximum.

    Sea ice in the Arctic 2009

  • Practically no old growth forest remains in this ecoregion, and there are no blocks of intact habitat more than 250 square-kilometers (km2) in area.

    Northeastern coastal forests 2009

  • Since federal lands in national forests, wildlife refuges, national parks, military and other federal reserves, and federal public domain lands constitute 60% of the total land area of Alaska (1.48 million square-kilometers (km2)), the federal role in management and conservation of wildlife in Alaska is unique among the states.

    Climate change and terrestrial wildlife management in the Alaskan Arctic 2009

  • Arctic lands are extensive beyond the northern limit of the tundra – taiga ecotone, encompassing an area of approximately 7,567,000 square-kilometers (km2), including about 2,560,000 km2 in the former Soviet Union and Scandinavia, 2480000 km2 in Canada, 2167000 km2 in Greenland and Iceland, and 360000 km2 in Alaska [8].

    Introduction to Arctic Tundra and Polar Desert Ecosystems 2009

  • There are twenty-four protected areas that include roughly 10 percent (3,661 square-kilometers [km2]) of the ecoregion area, but all are small, with the average size being only 152 km2 (Table 3).

    Timor and Wetar deciduous forests 2008

  • Most of the habitat remains in contiguous blocks, and the three protected areas, which cover 9,330 square-kilometers (km2), or 8 percent of the ecoregion area, are well distributed between Indonesia and PNG (Table 3).

    Southern New Guinea lowland rain forests 2008

  • Tweedsmuir Provincial Park - 9,609.18 square-kilometers (km2)

    Fraser Plateau and Basin complex 2008

  • Dunn Peak Provincial Park - southern British Columbia - 198.19 square-kilometers (km2)

    Okanagan dry forests 2008

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