These can be thought of as micro-oases sitting on top of the seamount oasis. For the most part though, a guyot summit is where sediment-dwelling animals call home. These include shrimps, isopods, crabs, sea stars, brittle stars, sea cucumbers, sea pens, and worms of various kinds (Figure 3).
Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. It was in 1922 that 26 counties of Ireland gained independence from London following negotiations which led to the other six counties, part of the province of Ulster, remaining in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Partition was followed by a year of civil war.
Long under English or British rule, Ireland lost half its population in the decades following the Great Potato Famine of the 1840s, becoming a nation of emigrants. After World War I, independence from the United Kingdom was only achieved at the price of civil war and partition. Northern Ireland remains part of Britain. After the country joined the European Community in 1973, it was transformed from a largely agricultural society into a modern, high-technology economy.