The bulk of the story is set on board a ship on the high seas towards the end of the Napoleonic Wars. |
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There was a huge bombora breaking to our left, and huge seas crashing on the rocks around the cliffs to our right. |
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The 19-ton vessel worked much of New Zealand's west coast, pounding through wild seas. |
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Calm seas and easy winds do not test a ship's worthiness, but it is the tempest and the hurricane that show her true metal. |
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That's maybe it, muddled up as it was with schoolboy ideas of roaming the world's seas on endless adventures. |
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Ten years of marauding the high seas had left him with a ruthless look in his gem-green eyes. |
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To be punished by the scourge of the seas was not a particularly happy thought. |
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With the deepest seas in Indonesia and islands jutting up from abyssal depths, this is truly spectacular diving second to none. |
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Apart from the threat of sharks, the biggest problem for competitors has been rough seas and bluebottles. |
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In January, heavy seas swept a family of five off an exposed coastal road to their deaths. |
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Thousands of giant jellyfish with 30 foot stinging tentacles have invaded the seas around Scotland. |
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Rogue waves that occur on relatively calm seas are usually generated by storms hundreds of miles away. |
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In the second decade Patinir established a formula for the painting of calm seas, while interest in depicting stormy seas came later. |
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We need to continually remind them of the nutritious and tasty foods we have in our seas and on our lands. |
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It's a place I've been known to frequent, and while I've never been afloat on a sailing boat I have frequently been half seas over. |
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But Alex Giannini brilliantly conveys Martin's comic cool, even down to his habit of rocking sideways while he sang as if half seas over. |
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Wind over tide conditions at the mouth of Cork Harbour resulted in huge breaking seas over 20 ft high. |
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Between screens and building are long thin pools, symbolic of the three seas that surround Anatolia. |
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Fish were recorded thrown ashore in all tidal phases and there was little evidence rough seas were responsible. |
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The winds that night blew a full gale, and they piled up seas bigger than I could ever have hoped to handle. |
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The artist's rising seas appear to be made of metal, stone, earth and glass, as well as water. |
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But the seas are beginning to part, and several paths forward are appearing before you. |
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For running in high seas we put a large square sail forward, tripping the yard along the foremast, much like a spinnaker boom. |
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Contemporaries of the last dinosaurs, paddle-limbed mosasaurs, inhabited seas of the Cretaceous period, which ended about 66 million years ago. |
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Exodus begins on the steadily diminishing island of Wing, bombarded by seas given velocity by global warming. |
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It is assumed that they must have journeyed overland, before the seas rose and created islands out of the land bridge. |
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Fishermen are tired of bouncing about on rough seas and need a break with more settled water and good landings. |
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Other episodes use spectacular photography to show Australia's tropical rainforests, swamps, wildlife, deserts, seas and natural landmarks. |
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With limited exceptions, both agreements ban all high seas fishing for salmon. |
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For eight centuries before that, the family a sept of Ui Fiachra were a great maritime power and ruled the seas along the Western Atlantic. |
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Thousands died on the seas while they were being shipped like caged cattle between continents. |
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Dark blue indicates deep ocean basins, while light blue denotes shallow seas of the continental shelf. |
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Most catsharks live in seas above the upper continental slope, a location that makes it difficult to observe these sharks and collect specimens. |
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A difficult course to make, with the choppy cross seas that are continuously trying to knock us off course. |
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Another, the Ionia, was swept by high seas and for many hours barely maintained steerage way. |
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Time and again, the legislation has sailed through congressional votes only to encounter choppy seas as it neared the safe harbor of enactment. |
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Thanks to clear seas and warm waters the hidden depths of Cornwall are teaming with marine wildlife just waiting to be discovered. |
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In calmer weather, you can use a wide-angle lens to capture a striking arrangement of rocks as the seas gently envelop them. |
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The clouds are pink, the seas around Hook's ship surge and roil, and the fairies dance deep in the forest. |
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They ran into stormy seas and started their emergency distress beacon late on Friday night. |
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Culdrose also averages more than 200 call-outs a year, from sailors taken off sinking vessels in stormy seas to people injured in cliff falls. |
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A year later, his cooking had him sailing the seas on a cruise ship, where he worked as a galley steward. |
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The south-west monsoon from May to October brings heavy rain and heavy seas and can restrict diving. |
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Halite is found in underground deposits known as salt domes, formed when ancient seas dried up and were buried under the earth. |
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There are four other species of Kelpfish in our seas belonging to the genus Gibbonsia. |
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White whales, also known as belugas, live primarily in the Arctic Ocean and adjoining seas. |
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The wind then came ahead creating very heavy head seas that continually broke over the ship's bow leaving it awash for minutes at a time. |
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May to September brings the cooler and drier south-east monsoon, with strong winds and high seas in July and August. |
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The crew had run out the kedge anchor to move the vessel ahead when breaking seas interfered. |
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This involves Greenpeace-type eco-activism on the high seas coupled with political intrigue. |
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Today the seas teem with multitudes of creatures comprising hundred of thousands of species. |
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Even marginally warmer seas will bleach, and then kill, coral reefs, which sustain the greater part of marine biodiversity. |
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In the warm shallow seas around deserted far-flung islands, we undertake an astonishing journey through still living and growing coral reefs. |
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Human rights violations occur within a state, rather than on the high seas or in outer space outside the jurisdiction of any one state. |
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In this guarded fashion the claim that the seas of the world outside Europe were Iberian maria clausa was breached. |
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The ship had caught a swift moving current and a fair breeze in her sail, carrying them towards the open seas at a ripping pace. |
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We just get new business parks surrounded by seas of cars and a trim of polite landscaping just like anywhere else. |
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When rising seas severed the link, a wide range of wildlife was left stranded on the newly-created island. |
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The cries of India are given to seas and winds, to be blown about, in every breaking up of the monsoon, over a remote and unhearing ocean. |
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One of the earth's largest and most powerful carnivores, the polar bear is found in all the world's arctic seas and coastal lines. |
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It was April 10, 1912, and in less than an hour the most majestic ship to ever grace the seas would begin her historical maiden voyage. |
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It was indeed the coldest day that Challenger had yet experienced and in the violent seas she lay to under bare poles, just trying to survive. |
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Many seas are tideless, and the waters of some are saline only in a very slight degree. |
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The seas around Malta are virtually tideless and currents are very rare in summer. |
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He joined Scindia Steam Navigation as a sea cadet and sailed the high seas for the next 10 years. |
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The U.S. Navy intercepts migrant ships on the high seas and sends bogus refugees home. |
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International straits are part of the high seas where freedom of navigation is guaranteed to all. |
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Piracy has flourished on the high seas for as long as maritime commerce has existed between states. |
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It would have to be done in international waters, in the high seas while the vessel was in motion. |
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Jurisdiction over a vessel on the high seas resides solely with the State to which the vessel belongs. |
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A stealth corvette of the YS 2000 design has a detection range of 13 km in rough seas and 22 km in calm sea without jamming. |
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The upper slopes of the mountain afforded views of Dogs Bay, with topaz seas as clear as any Caribbean shoreline. |
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According to survivors the boat overturned in heavy seas in a matter of minutes, leaving most of the passengers trapped inside. |
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Search vessels and helicopters continued scouring the choppy seas despite fading hopes of finding the nine still missing from the boat. |
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The young actress was one of several crew members who found the choppy seas of the Caribbean a little unsettling. |
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He joked about his unexpected arrival by car after choppy seas prevented a sea-borne landing. |
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I'm sitting behind Tommy and five other former whalers in a whale observation tent high above the choppy seas of Cook Strait. |
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Gurus and swamis crossed the seas to visit these communities and encourage their religious practices. |
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Coincidentally, the boating people also realised that they must have miscounted, and jets set out scouring the seas for them. |
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Many ships were taken as prizes by awaiting interlopers and pirates, and much of the booty spilled into the seas during swash buckling raids. |
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It's warm to hot in the south and Corsica, but the mistral can blow fiercely in summer making Mediterranean seas too rough for diving. |
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I cannot be gallivanting across the high seas in constant pursuit of a runaway ship. |
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Freedom is an important element in nostalgia, but the more the concept of freedom of the seas is examined, the more complex it becomes. |
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The low waterplane area is desirable to reduce motion characteristics from waves, especially during swell seas and storms. |
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It's no better on the roads, jammed by 7.30 am, with huge seas of traffic for most of the day, sometimes until 9 o'clock at night. |
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The high seas harbour a host of job opportunities for those driven by wanderlust and the desire for a life away from the humdrum. |
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Subjects now range far beyond the Great Lakes, from piracy on the high seas to the environmental health of our oceans. |
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The mines are large deposits of crystalline salts formed when ancient seas dried up and were buried underground. |
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A built-in motor bracket cuts cockpit noise and adds security in big seas from abaft. |
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Thousands of people flocked to the beachfront to watch last night's drama as heavy seas pounded the Oranjeland lying broadside on the beachfront. |
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About 7 o'clock heavy seas swept over her and she broached, then sank by the stern. |
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The seas were inhabited by large ammonoids like Olcostephanus, bivalves like Bruchia, and some of the early rudist reefs. |
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The seas were calm and the breeze blowing steadily southward seemed to lessen. |
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Under these periods of glaciations, the seas would fall to levels about 400 feet below the present. |
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Local attractions include stunning inland seas and intrepid volcano treks, but the stars of the show are the mountain gorillas. |
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There is an abundance of game and semi-game fish in the rivers, inland water bodies and the seas off the State, the aficionados say. |
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The freezing over of rivers and seas along with snows and ice would interfere with transportation more than higher temperatures would. |
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More than half of Mandela's sentence was spent on Robben Island, a windswept rock surrounded by the treacherous seas of the Cape of Good Hope. |
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As the seas rose, new coral islands grew from the underlying shelf platform. |
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In seas up to eight feet and dangerous rip currents, two of the three Cuban migrants struggled to stay afloat. |
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On October 26, 1973, the Nantucket lightship reported sustained winds of 115 knots, and seas of 45 feet. |
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Other ferry boat owners in Ayia Napa said they had seen girls returning from a night on the high seas battered and bruised. |
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As they make their way across the North Pacific to San Francisco ferocious storms and heavy seas will have to be endured. |
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But the treaty obliges countries bordering enclosed or semi-enclosed seas to work together on marine conservation and environmental protection. |
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On the surface, it is both an adventure story set upon the high seas and a compendium of information about whales and the whaling industry. |
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The sand seas or ergs cover thousands of square kilometres, and in places the sand cover may be hundreds of metres thick. |
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It constituted part of a Late Ordovician epicontinental fauna that once spread widely in shallow, equatorial seas of North America. |
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Fossils of marine life characterize the Mississippian Period, as shallow epicontinental seas covered the United States at that time. |
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She and her craft spent 10 hours in the grip of a storm with winds gusting up to 70 mph and mountainous seas which hurled her around the cabin. |
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Humanity is being squeezed between deserts expanding outward and rising seas encroaching inward. |
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Tramping through the primeval swamp, you re not thinking of ancient seas or planetary evolution. |
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Clumsy as were their galliots, they were among the first to brave the mysterious terrors of unknown seas and oceans. |
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We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. |
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The ferocity of the seas and winds however, meant that the rescue was far from straightforward. |
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Countries in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres continue to treat the world's rivers, seas and oceans as dumping grounds. |
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The seas teem with mullet, squid, cuttlefish, cardinal fish, and it is here they swarm in a forest of wire coral and black coral reefs. |
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Far easier, the oilmen claim, to run the pipeline across shallow seas to Darwin and its First World infrastructure. |
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They filled the seas 400 million years ago, and perhaps a few are lurking in some deep-sea trench. |
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When she decided to swap the high seas for dry land, Sweeney wrote to Brookside producer Mal Young asking if he had work. |
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At that point, the oceans ceased to be geographical barriers, and like the smaller seas before them opened up into highways. |
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And, worth noting, the larger retail outlets offer seas of stacked aisles in which to get confused. |
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Spotted and spinner dolphins inhabit tropical seas around the world along with yellowfin tuna. |
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The rising seas and humid, equable conditions of the Mesozoic strongly reduced the availability of marine iron. |
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A ship captain traversing the open seas without a good navigation system will surely get lost. |
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I hope that one day when these great, friendly sharks swim in the seas off Taiwan, people will want to swim and dive with them instead eat them. |
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I had only ever seen flat, safe beaches and seas before and I was absolutely entranced by the power and beauty of this new experience. |
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The distinctive orange and white Clown Fish traditionally lives in the warm seas of the Indo-Pacific area. |
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In the Mediterranean and the narrow seas of Europe, aircraft took a leading part in the conduct of blockade. |
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It profiles more than 250 ships now sailing the high seas and previews liners preparing for maiden voyages. |
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It's a disgrace that British-flagged ships should sail the seas carrying British exports but the crews are foreign. |
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A third east coast low developed on 26 June, and became notorious for the huge seas it produced. |
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We were repeatedly laid over on our beam ends and washed over by the seas as if we were a half tide rock. |
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Rough seas and 20-knot westerly winds made the task of moving the female whale into deeper waters impossible. |
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To conduct a maritime war in distant seas the Admiralty had to be able to transport naval stores to squadrons operating from remote stations. |
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The weather near a continental arid zone is modified by increasing the heat storage of the seas westwardly of the arid zone during the summer. |
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The whale shark is the largest fish in the seas and can reach more than 14m in length. |
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Nutrients such as nitrates and phosphates fuel the extraordinary biological fecundity of the seas there. |
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In the contemporary ocean, cysts tend to be most abundant in seas of temperate latitudes. |
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The painted storks from Siberia and Algeria fly across the seas and mainlands for about 6,000 km to reach Veerapuram. |
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Her upturned profile, proud but not snobbish, promises to cut through the stormy seas ahead. |
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I can only assume that for my buddies in Tortola, this will only mean a bit of rain and some lumpy seas. |
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He lived in a house on the beach and fell in love with Grenada's azure blue seas and white sand beaches. |
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The ice-free seas will further exacerbate the melt, as the reduced reflection of light will result in the dark seas absorbing more warmth. |
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The water of the seas was its true color blue or even a shade of teal, depending on what light it was under. |
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One of the most difficult parts of the exercise was stopping about halfway to refuel the vessels, in seas of about one and a half metres. |
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Some sites can have quite a current rushing across them and the seas can be lumpy. |
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In a short time the wind begins to kick up, seas rise to 4 feet, and the men hang on to the slippery deck. |
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These rumours were further fuelled with talk of the them having mined the seas and submarines being seen. |
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In some of the loneliest seas in the world the Navy appeared to help support the yachtswoman's morale. |
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The launch would do the trips in quite heavy seas and cancellations for bad weather were rare. |
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It is no longer essentially a matter of high seas freedom moderated by reasonable use, but one of legal obligation to protect the environment. |
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The small boat punched its way through the heavy Atlantic swell and green seas crashed over our bows. |
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The passage from Ireland was quite rough with the vessel encountering storm force winds and high seas for days crossing the Bay of Biscay. |
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Rondo screeched as she was bashed by winter seas so big and heavy that they slowly inched the ship across the 100 ft-wide island. |
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Many were wrecked because of inadequate knowledge or charts, poor navigation skills or handling but also as a result of the unpredictable seas and weather. |
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The vessel displays the expected excellent sea keeping of the Interceptor 42 providing a soft ride into head seas and excellent handing down wind in following seas. |
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Similarly, the Proliferation Security Initiative of the United States seeks to interdict on the high seas the transfer of sensitive nuclear materials. |
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The volcanic vista in Lava Lake also features designed topography, including striped atolls from which astronautlike figures survey the swirling red seas of their planet. |
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Survey ship HMS Roebuck had barely left Devonport on her final deployment when she was involved in a rescue in stormy seas off the north-west coast of Spain. |
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The US 6th Fleet will be in the Aegean, patrolling the seas. |
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In the future, stopping wmd proliferation will require the United States to consider interdicting supplies on the high seas or possibly attacking nuclear facilities. |
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Last New Year's Eve, the ship suffered a power cut for almost two hours in stormy seas in the Bermuda Triangle, en route to New York from Puerto Rico. |
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Telegraph lines were often built alongside the railways, and steamships laid the submarine cables that took the telegraph network across the seas and oceans. |
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Conditions will range from the calms and energy-sapping heat of the northern hemisphere to the icebergs, storms and monumental seas of the southern oceans. |
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For those born and bred on the coast, rushing seas are de rigueur, and they think nothing of a squall that puts their ketch over to port 45 degrees. |
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The seas are calm, no Waves violently knocking the hull, as they inevitably will during long stretches of the race. |
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In determining total allowable catches this formulation has proved notoriously open to over-optimistic assessments by the members of high seas fisheries commissions. |
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He shunned the conveniences of modern life in favour of learning from the fishermen who worked the treacherous frozen seas and from the native Innuit tribespeople they met. |
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Some coastal villages are exposed to the seas by the lack of ice. |
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There were rough seas in the area at that time, the coast guard said, adding they dispatched patrol boats and planes Tuesday to search for the ship. |
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His navigational skill coupled with help from the seas and the direction of the wind that night saved over 4,000 lives. |
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The weather in the Firth of Forth that day was night was described by Forth Coastguards as horrendous with gales, rough seas and freezing temperatures. |
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Men who have climbed a gyrating mast to furl a sail in a storm or have laboured at the helm in rough seas will never underestimate the power of the sea. |
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Both these polar seas are hunting grounds for the sperm whale. |
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In time of peace, freedom of the seas cannot be restricted lawfully except by international agreements, such as those regulating fisheries or the right of visit and search. |
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Devotees do go recreational freediving in Australia, but finding the right combination of depth and calm seas makes world record attempts impossible. |
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There are glimpses of smoky rooms, rolling seas and fiery skies, all conveyed with the desperation of a man who clearly realizes his escapism is also his undoing. |
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The skipper was experienced and had faced worse seas before and so sudden was the calamity which overwhelmed him that he was unable to send out a Mayday call. |
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If you ever get the chance to sail the seven seas on one of those deluxe cruise ships and admire the shiny modern interior, you could be looking at product from Pattaya. |
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But the intermediate seas were navigated by the wandering shepherd tribes, who sometimes pastured their flocks by the waters of the Indus, sometimes by the waters of the Nile. |
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But not just any ship, it needed to be fast enough to sail the seas undetected and yet fearsome enough to do justice to my stalwart piratical persona. |
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Little explanation so far has been offered as to why he was left for so long on his vessel as it drifted on the high seas before a second helicopter was sent out. |
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While the seas can be savage, Graham loves the power of the ocean, the wildness of the local landscape and, in particular, the clarity of the light in this part of Scotland. |
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Granuaile sailed the seas of Clew Bay and beyond in the 16th century and was known far and wide for her fearless attempts to hold on to the ancient Gaelic way of life. |
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Ilea ruled the south icy realm, Aural the seas of the north, Inferna the parched lands of the west where fire spits from mountains, and Terrestra the forests of the East. |
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The bugs, bacteria and viruses contained in the raw sewage that is still pumped into seas around Scotland not only make us ill, in extreme cases they can kill. |
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The technology exists to keep us from ever losing a commercial airliner over open seas ever again. |
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Their responsibilities were lightened somewhat by the perfect conditions prevailing, with clear skies, slight seas and a moderate 10-knot southerly. |
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The south-east monsoon cuts visibility from June to August, but the main rains come with the north-west monsoon from December to March, when heavy seas can restrict diving. |
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More likely he sailed the seas as trader or humble fisherman. |
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The Boston was forced to land in choppy seas because of a failed oil pump. |
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A surfer who braved 20 ft waves in a vain attempt to help rescue a mother and her children from seas off Scarborough said yesterday there was no safety equipment in the area. |
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As mountainous seas rolled down upon them, smashing over the deck, Halsted left him to it. |
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With more than six billion people now inhabiting the planet, will we ever again see a time when whales fill the seas and the oceans teem with life? |
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The two species of this family are found at high latitudes in the arctic seas and in most of the major rivers draining into them, south to the Saint Lawrence River. |
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The lightship, itself, in 36 hours of gale force winds was thrown on its beam ends and shipped heavy seas notwithstanding that it was running its engine. |
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The Arctic was still bitterly cold in winter because, with less sunshine, not only did the polar ocean freeze over in winter, but the inland seas as well. |
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After weeks of sunshine, a cyclonic storm had hit the previous night, laying great trees to waste and stirring the seas to the consistency of mulligatawny. |
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This had enabled the crew to reach the fo'c's'le, bridge and engine room in the stern area, because when fully laden in heavy seas the San T's deck would have been awash. |
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Once I got past Bull Bay, the vistas of the azure seas uplifted my spirit. |
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What a fragile vessel to sail into the rough seas that lay ahead! |
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The moderately rough seas and the discoloured water certainly made the conditions ideal and several mixed catches of tailor, bream and jewfish were taken. |
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The seas would occupy the depressions and form the faces of the pyramid, while the continents would be situated round the coigns and would reach out along the edges. |
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And yet, we have a whole bunch of people, serious, accomplished scientists, telling us that the seas will rise in some places while deserts will be created in others. |
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He captures the seas as well as the tranquil horizons in his works. |
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The two-way radio to the mainland was not working and the rough seas prevented the few able-bodied men still on the island from taking the critically ill man to a hospital. |
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But polar bears spend much of their time roaming the miles and miles of ice that cover the Arctic seas most of the year hunting for prey such as the ringed seal. |
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If the spout was air and not water, then there was no necessary reason for it to be confined to seas and oceans. |
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Two lifeboats, a rescue helicopter, an RAF Hercules plane and two Navy war ships spent 30 hours scouring the seas and coast but his body was never found. |
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All the more, fighting in the narrow seas calls for unique capabilities. |
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The danger, excitement and adventure of racing yachts on the high seas awaits a North Yorkshire woman, picked to take part in one of the world's toughest yacht races. |
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Engagement on the high seas occurs infrequently, and almost always because one side is moving to attack landward targets and the other is trying to prevent it. |
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The fact that this meant taking a ship with a dodgy condenser round Scotland through the wild seas of January doesn't seem to have worried anybody. |
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Only in the high seas are there still some habitats free of invasive species. |
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Even Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin agreed that immigrants from monarchal countries would likely bring their political ideas across the seas with them. |
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The Napoleonic Wars would end in 1815 and with the favourable British colonial preference laws, whiskey could be transported over seas to help satisfy this new demand. |
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The notorious pirate who sailed the seven seas without once being caught! |
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The full effect of a strong Westerly with accompanying big Atlantic seas was felt on the second day when the race officer ordered small kites to be used. |
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None of the streams draining upland areas of the Southeast were glaciated during Pleistocene ice ages or inundated by Cretaceous seas during interglacial periods. |
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In calm seas and glorious weather, the ship made landfall off the abandoned whaling station of Grytviken, and secured to the Admiralty buoy in Cumberland Bay. |
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And only in the high seas do we find living organisms that are more than 8,000 years old, such as deep-sea corals. |
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Traders were bringing in crates of imported goods from across the seas while fishmongers and townsfolk sold their own homemade wares in shops and stalls. |
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Such changes towards a commercialized society destabilized Scottish society, leading to support for the Stuart pretender across the seas in France. |
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There were night penguins that emitted green light only when hunting in dark seas, and merlions whose manes were fringed with pallid lavender. |
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The British fleet had sailed but the German ships escaped in stormy seas and low visibility, assisted by British communication failures. |
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Eamonn bravely took to the high seas in the new series which sees disabled people team up with abled-bodied celebrities for an aventure. |
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Within months, four ships set sail due west for the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, but a violent storm and rough seas caused the loss of two ships. |
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My holiday Naomi Corrigan and her husband took to the seas and had their first cruise on new superliner Ventura. |
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From the last decades of the 8th century Norwegians started expanding across the seas to the British Isles and later Iceland and Greenland. |
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Shipwrecks on tempest-tossed seas are featured in a number of other ballets and operas. |
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Oceanographers use Their knowledge of biology, CHEMISTRY, physics and geology To sTudy The seas and oceans. |
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Iran plans to supply 4 million tons of fuel to ships sailing through its neighboring seas in the current Iranian solar year. |
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This week, I have been for many walks on the beach, and after heavy seas there have been a lot of ray egg cases washed up on the strandline. |
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An American surfer was missing in the rough seas and high winds off Puerto Rico. |
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They come because of the unspoilt beauty of our scenery, the cleanliness of our lakes, rivers and seas and the sandiness of our beaches. |
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Brian Smith, from Wick, Caithness, died after being plucked from stormy seas by helicopter in a daring rescue bid. |
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Clear days with calm wind and seas are the easiest times to spot the whales, parks officials said. |
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This system begins overseas, spans the offshore regions, and continues into our territorial seas and our ports. |
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Many populations of fish in European seas are now being caught sustainably and given time will return to healthy levels. |
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The seas where octopods live sparkle with constellations of bioluminescent fish, squid, crustaceans, and other creatures. |
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Norway lobsters, caught in the high seas and packed in 800g boxes, are also new from the company. |
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Far as the eye could see, farther and farther as they mounted the slope, were seas beyond seas of pines, now all aslope one way under the wind. |
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Often Neil sat in their bothy on winter nights and told Calum about seas he had never seen. |
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Away, away, over lands and seas and space, on the rushing desire flies the disprisoned mind! |
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Currents and awesome wind with floatsome foam and dreg clinging dog paddle through mountainous seas toward safety of shore. |
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Shallow epicontinental seas like the current North Sea have since long existed on the European continental shelf. |
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Another significant challenge to British domination of the seas came during the Napoleonic Wars. |
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Aristotle certainly did research on the natural history of Lesbos, and the surrounding seas and neighbouring areas. |
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In very rough seas or in the event of a dismasting crewmembers have been airlifted away with broken limbs or chest, pelvis and head injuries. |
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Kate is pleased to come across a lumpsucker, an ugly fish whose presence is a sign that British seas are thankfully fairly clean. |
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After Trafalgar, Britain had total domination of the seas for the duration of the Napoleonic Wars. |
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He sailed again, intending to search the seas off Cyprus, but decided to pass Alexandria again for a final check. |
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Salt flats and salt lakes reveal a time when the great inland seas covered much of what is now the West. |
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In the 18th century, the famous Maratha privateer Kanhoji Angre ruled the seas between Mumbai and Goa. |
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During this period Russian warm seas expansion presented a large and growing threat. |
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The English coastline varies a great deal by the seas and regions it borders. |
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Ireland's geologic history covers everything from volcanism and tropical seas to the last glacial period. |
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This variation in the two areas along with the differences between volcanic areas and shallow seas gives Ireland a range of soils as well. |
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The seas surrounding South Georgia are cold throughout the year due to the proximity of the Antarctic Current. |
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Britain's main weapon was the Royal Navy, which could control the seas and bring as many invasion troops as were needed. |
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Over 700 men were rescued from the open ocean despite cold seas and stormy weather. |
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Modern navigation systems now minimise the dangers but in the past the stormy seas have claimed many ships. |
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To survive, Jack seeks out the legendary Trident of Poseidon, a powerful artifact whose owner can control the seas and break curses. |
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Goods and people are also smuggled across seas hidden in containers, and overland hidden in cars, trucks, and trains. |
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The Sudestada usually moderates cold temperatures but brings very heavy rains, rough seas and coastal flooding. |
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Shallow seas flanked the margins of several continents created during the breakup of the supercontinent Pannotia. |
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The seas were relatively warm, and polar ice was absent for much of the period. |
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As with North America and Europe, Gondwana was largely covered with shallow seas during the Ordovician. |
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In North America and Europe, the Ordovician was a time of shallow continental seas rich in life. |
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The Shipping Forecast is produced by the Met Office and broadcast on BBC Radio 4, for those traversing the seas around the British Isles. |
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The other two species occur in the temperate seas around southern Africa, southern Australia and New Zealand. |
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Marine mussels are abundant in the low and mid intertidal zone in temperate seas globally. |
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The Shipping Forecast is a BBC Radio broadcast of weather reports and forecasts for the seas around the coasts of the British Isles. |
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Sheltered from the rough seas of the North Channel and the North Atlantic the loch has been an important safe harbour for vessels. |
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Mediterranean and other seas present a major obstacle to soaring birds, which must cross at the narrowest points. |
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Japan's Fisheries Agency estimated 2,321 killer whales were in the seas around Japan. |
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Greenpeace claims that the Irish Sea remains one of the most heavily contaminated seas in the world because of these discharges. |
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Sources differ over which seas are considered marginal seas as well as which ocean a given sea is considered a marginal part of. |
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At various times in the geologic past, inland seas have been greater in extent and more common than at present. |
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This does not include seas not connected to the World Ocean, such as the Caspian Sea. |
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The possibility of seas of nitrogen on Triton was also considered but ruled out. |
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It is the period of history when Scandinavian Norsemen explored Europe by its seas and rivers for trade, raids, colonisation and conquest. |
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Wind wave models are driven by more general weather models that predict the winds and pressures over the oceans, seas and lakes. |
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In the North Pacific, they are found in the southern Bering Sea and range as far south as the seas of Okhotsk and Japan. |
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Thus, ringed seals occupying the Bering and southern Chukchi seas in winter apparently are migratory, but details of their movements are unknown. |
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Local placenames reflect the diverse linguistic heritage and the landscapes of the island and its surrounding seas attract abundant wildlife. |
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Many of these smaller seas feature in local myth and folklore and derive their names from these associations. |
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However, definitions of the Arctic Ocean and its seas tend to be imprecise or arbitrary. |
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Landing on the island is very difficult, as it normally experiences high seas and features a steep coast. |
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The Arctic Ocean has only 16 seamounts and no guyots, and the Mediterranean and Black seas together have only 23 seamounts and 2 guyots. |
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Oceanic sharks are captured incidentally by swordfish and tuna high seas fisheries. |
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Albatrosses in calm seas are forced to rest on the ocean's surface until the wind picks up again. |
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Interglacials are identified on land or in shallow epicontinental seas by their paleontology. |
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People sail on the China seas only in Chinese ships, so let us mention the order observed upon them. |
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These new systems greatly increase the Navy's capacity to intervene in the high seas and the shores. |
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He recommended that the Portuguese should sail south along the coast of Africa and the seas of Guinea. |
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As a rule, being landlocked creates political and economic handicaps that access to the high seas avoids. |
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Since these seas are in effect lakes without access to wider seaborne trade, countries such as Kazakhstan are still considered landlocked. |
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The seas around Bahrain are very shallow, heating up quickly in the summer to produce very high humidity, especially at night. |
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The Portuguese king commissioned his subjects to get good pilots that could guide them beyond the seas of China and Malacca. |
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