The Persians were taken in and sent their navy into the narrow strait between Athens and the island of Salamis. |
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No less a navigator than Capt. James Cook failed to find the strait 180 years later, in fact. |
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He heard a sharp click and in an instant Kitty loaded her cricket gun and was aiming strait at Darien. |
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You either enter by a strait gate onto a narrow way or you go with the crowd through the wide gate and the broad way that leadeth to destruction. |
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The two countries are linked by a causeway over a narrow strait which separates the two sides. |
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The East River, in fact a tidal strait, is littered with smaller islands like Roosevelt, Randall's, Rikers, and Ward. |
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Before actually coming strait to my house I had to drop by the school infirmary to get my hand taken care of and go in search for Sam's clothes. |
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Negotiations about the precise wording of the speech are intense, with messages and messengers traversing the strait on a near-daily basis. |
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In purely commercial terms, passage through the strait would cut time off sailings from the west coast of North Korea. |
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I went strait towards the back door, around the swimming hole, and towards the hedge maze. |
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They glided over the narrow strait of turbulent ocean water that made the island look like it had been cut in half with a steak knife. |
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The rock of Gibraltar stands 450m high, dominating the narrow strait into the Mediterranean from the Atlantic Ocean. |
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If his victory stands, the immediate prospect for reducing tension across the strait appears remote. |
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The weathered speedboats line up along three small piers every morning, right next to large police boats that patrol the strait. |
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From this haunted ridge the road curves down to Tiquina, where the lake narrows to a strait less than a kilometer wide. |
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Then Low decided to explore the strait between Kanghwa Island and the Han River, informing the local officials that he was doing so. |
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Incensed with rage, he commands that his wife should be carried to strait prison until they heard further of his pleasure. |
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This was shipped through Taganrog, a port on the Sea of Azov which communicates through a narrow strait with the Black Sea. |
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The White Sea is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean connected with the Barents Sea by a shallow strait. |
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Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. |
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As the strait shares a border with Malaysia, Malaysian authorities have stepped up patrols and had captured two groups of pirates operating along the straits. |
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Istanbul straddles the Bosphorus strait, the stretch of water which creates a natural north-south divide in the city and joins the Sea of Marmara to the Black Sea. |
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Perhaps the deep-sea corals thrive better on the other side of the strait? |
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On economic issues, the two parties agreed to cooperate toward pursuing the realization of direct shipping links, agricultural exchanges and a common market across the strait. |
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I know I did state the bleeding obvious while saying that, but how am I to know if you still know a cape from a bay from an isthmus from a strait? |
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How long will it take, and at what cost, to reopen the strait and keep it open? |
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The bullets sang softly in their strait prison of steel and brass. |
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The harbor was circular with a long narrow strait leading into the sea. |
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Trails on the bluffs offer sights of Benicia and the strait. |
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Eleven young women, aged sixteen to twenty, were escorted to police cells in their blood-soaked night shirts with their bodies bound in strait jackets. |
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Moroccan authorities said last week that the suspects planned to sail a dinghy loaded with explosives from Morocco into the strait to attack the vessels. |
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Armed with a crayfishing spear, they allegedly demanded and took the catch from a group of professional fishermen who worked out of Cooktown, outside the strait. |
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Countries such as the United States argue that the increasingly navigable waterway should be treated as an international strait, not Canadian waters. |
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What of the other states that buy and sell the Gulf oil that moves through the strait? |
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The strait is about 750 km long with an average width of 125 km, varying from 70 km at the eastern entrance to 240 km at Deception Bay. |
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He managed to sail through the Kara Gates, the strait between the islands of Vaygach and Novaya Zemlya in the Arctic Ocean. |
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His strait served as inspiration for Ferdinand Magellan's expedition to reach the Moluccas by a westward route. |
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Torres then took a route close to the New Guinea coast to navigate the 150 kilometre strait that now bears his name. |
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The strait links the Coral Sea to the east with the Arafura Sea and Gulf of Carpentaria in the west. |
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The largest islands in the strait include Prince of Wales Island, Horn Island, Moa, and Badu Island. |
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The strait between Tierra del Fuego and Isla de los Estados was named the Le Maire Strait in his honor, though not without controversy. |
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His exploit was forgotten for almost a hundred years and Bering is usually given credit for discovering the strait that bears his name. |
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Australia is chocker with beaches strait from paradise, and Terrigal is a beach holiday mecca? I'm gobsmacked. |
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In 1648, Semyon Dezhnyov probably passed through the strait, but his report did not reach Europe. |
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On August 8 a scout plane reported impassable ice in the strait, and Litke turned north, heading to Herald Island. |
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I then took a strait That gave myself, and some few more, receipt 'Twixt Scylla and Charybdis. |
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The Diomede Islands and Fairway Rock are located in the midst of the strait. |
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Slay not that my musk-deer fawnling, Hunter! Prithee, have thou shame Of her night-black eye nor bind her With thy lasso long and strait. |
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Like mad-dog in the hottest day Byron runs snapping strait away, And those unlucky fellows judge ill Who go without a whip or cudgel. |
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The Pentland Firth is not an inlet, but the strait that separates the Orkney Isles from the mainland. |
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The southern boundary of the strait is a line joining the Mull of Galloway and Ballyquintin Point. |
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The Falkland Islands take their name from the Falkland Sound, a strait separating the archipelago's two main islands. |
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Strong named the strait in honour of Anthony Cary, 5th Viscount of Falkland, the Treasurer of the Navy who sponsored their journey. |
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The Harlem River, another tidal strait between the East and Hudson Rivers, separates most of Manhattan from the Bronx. |
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The sheltered strait between Barrow and Walney Island was an ideal location for the shipyard. |
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The lough is almost totally enclosed by the Ards Peninsula and is linked to the Irish Sea by a long narrow channel or strait. |
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The area had earlier been an island, when a strait at Vust had been open prior to the 12th century. |
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The strait is the busiest international seaway in the world, used by over 400 commercial vessels daily. |
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A narrow deep channel along the middle of the strait was the bed of the Rhine in the last Ice Age. |
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For this reason the strait has had a heavy international seatraffic for centuries. |
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The seals mass annually near the Denmark strait around July, at the time of their moulting periods, to mate. |
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The Red Sea is higher than the Eastern Mediterranean, so the canal serves as a tidal strait that pours Red Sea water into the Mediterranean. |
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There are ferries that operate between Spain and Morocco across the strait, as well as between Spain and Ceuta and Gibraltar to Tangier. |
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Through the strait, water generally flows more or less continually in both an eastward and a westward direction. |
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The Mediterranean outflow water layer can be traced for thousands of kilometres west of the strait, before completely losing its identity. |
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The cold East Greenland Current passes through the strait and carries icebergs south into the North Atlantic. |
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However, the strait was blocked by young ice at this point in the season, and not navigable to ships. |
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Magellan and his crew were the first Europeans to reach Tierra del Fuego just east of the Pacific side of the strait. |
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The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden. |
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The Mongols easily took over Tsushima Island about halfway across the strait and then Iki Island closer to Kyushu. |
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The strait is the most important natural passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. |
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The first Chilean settlement was Fuerte Bulnes, situated in a forested zone on the north side of the strait. |
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Argentina had previously claimed all of the strait, or at least the eastern third of it. |
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In 1840 the Pacific Steam Navigation Company was the first to use steamships for commercial traffic in the strait. |
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The northwestern portion of the strait is connected with other sheltered waterways via the Smyth Channel. |
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The western part of the strait leads northwest from the northern end of the Magdalena Channel to the strait's Pacific entrance. |
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Panetta told troops in Texas that the United States would not tolerate Iran's closing of the strait. |
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Ferdinand Magellan reached it on 21 October 1520 and discovered a strait, now called the Strait of Magellan. |
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It marks the north edge of the Drake Passage, the strait between South America and Antarctica. |
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Following the southern coast of the strait on 2 August, the ship entered Hudson Bay. |
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As the fleet passed the strait, warplanes were deployed from the flattop to guard the surrounding area, they said. |
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Yemen shares a long border with the world's top oil exporter Saudi Arabia and flanks busy shipping lanes such as those in the strategic Bab El Mandeb strait west of Aden. |
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Finally, the approach to Gothenburg through the Skagerrak strait between Norway and Denmark is strewn with small islands and rocks, so we will need to be fully alert. |
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And neither can they be trusted not to hold siege to the Bab El Mandeb strait that not only connects the Red Sea with the Indian Ocean but is also a link to Suez Canal. |
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Unauthorized travelers who arrive on shore after crossing the strait, even those with visas, may be arrested, imprisoned briefly, fined, deported and banned from future visas. |
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Torres Strait is mentioned in Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea as a dangerous strait where the submarine, the Nautilus, is briefly stranded. |
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In 1770 Cook claimed the whole of eastern Australia for the British Crown, and sailed through the strait after proceeding up the eastern coast of the continent. |
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This strait connects the Kara Sea and the Barents Sea in northern Russia. |
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This strait lies between Baffin Island and Nunavik, with its eastern entrance marked by Cape Chidley in Quebec and Resolution Island off Baffin Island. |
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As the strait provides a well protected inland water way for safe navigation, sheltered from rough weather and high seas, ships sail through the strait. |
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Two narrow channels connect the strait with Seno Otway and Seno Skyring. |
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Sailing ships, however, partly because of variable winds and currents in the strait, generally preferred the Drake Passage, as they had more room to maneuver there. |
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In Tierra del Fuego, across the strait from Punta Arenas, the village of Porvenir emerged during the Tierra del Fuego gold rush in the late 19th century. |
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On October 21, 1520, his expedition crossed the strait that bears his name in the southern tip of South America, opening the Pacific to European exploration. |
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He came to dominate the maritime route at the Malaccan strait. |
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Several days later they discovered a passage now known as the Strait of Magellan located in the southern tip of South America and sailed through the strait. |
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Magellan's expedition was the first to circumnavigate the globe and the first to navigate the strait in South America connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. |
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Afterwards, they continued to sail south along South America's east coast, looking for the strait that Magellan believed would lead to the Spice Islands. |
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With a water depth of between one and two thousand meters the strait is substantially shallower than the Labrador Sea to the south or Baffin Bay to the north. |
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The Norwegian island of Jan Mayen lies northeast of the strait. |
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Some studies have proposed the possibility of erecting tidal power generating stations within the strait, to be powered from the predictable current at the strait. |
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The Camarinal Sill is located at the far western end of the strait. |
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The Strait of Gibraltar is a narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates Gibraltar and Spain in Europe from Morocco in Africa. |
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However, this strait was not navigable to ships at that time. |
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In 1772, Samuel Hearne travelled overland northwest from Hudson Bay to the Arctic Ocean, thereby proving that there was no strait connecting Hudson Bay to the Pacific Ocean. |
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Ulloa concluded that the Gulf of California was the southernmost section of a strait supposedly linking the Pacific with the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. |
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The strait is believed to have been created by the erosion of a land bridge that linked the Weald in Great Britain to the Boulonnais in the Pas de Calais. |
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The entire strait is within the territorial waters of France and the United Kingdom, but a right of transit passage under the UNCLOS exists allowing for unrestricted shipping. |
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The drive hunt in the Little Belt strait is the best documented example. |
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A strait in the Persian Gulf separates Qatar from the nearby island country of Bahrain, as well as sharing maritime borders with the United Arab Emirates and Iran. |
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Sheikh Talal Al Khalid Al Sabah, chief executive officer of Kuwait Oil Tankers Co, said tankers were operating in a safe and usual manner through the Bab el Mandeb strait. |
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During Francis stay in the strait crew members discovered that an infusion made of the bark of Drimys winteri could be used as remedy against scurvy. |
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Once in, through traffic to the Baltic passes through another strait, the Fehmarn Belt, into the Bay of Mecklenburg, which opens out into the Baltic Sea. |
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Gibraltar, which is still a British overseas territory, became a major naval base and allowed Great Britain to control the strait connecting the Atlantic to the Mediterranean. |
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Barry continued to shout obscenities and to flail about in a strait jacket, finally succumbing to the effects of intravenously administered tranquilizers. |
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The saltwater fish is believed to be an Xanthic Undulate Trigger that was recently collected in Lombok Strait, a strait connecting the Java Sea to the Indian Ocean. |
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