Vanuatu, for example, stretches more than 500 miles in a northwest-southeast trend, its scores of intervisible islands forming a backstop for mariners riding the trade winds home.

例如，瓦努阿图沿西北-东南方向延伸超过 500 英里，其数十个可见的岛屿为乘信风回家的水手提供了后盾。