Before that time, at the peak of the last ice age ( c. 16, 000 BC ) sea levels everywhere were 130 metres lower, and there were large well-watered coastal plains instead of much of the northern Aegean.

Before sea levels rose at the end of the last Ice Age, Borneo was part of the mainland of Asia, forming, with Java and Sumatra, the upland regions of a peninsula that extended east from present day Indochina and Thailand.

Before embarking on a sea voyage, planning and preparation will include studying charts, almanacs and navigation books and recent weather conditions of the route to be followed.

Before the Trojan War, Poseidon sent a sea monster to attack Troy.

Before he dies, Heracles throws Lichas into the sea, thinking he was the one who poisoned him ( according to several versions, Lichas turns to stone, becoming a rock standing in the sea, named for him ).

Before reaching Jordanian territory the river forms the Sea of Galilee, the surface of which is 212 meters below sea level.

Before he could reach his destination though, David drowned at sea sometime between 1169 – 1170.

Before the introduction of the compass, celestial navigation was the main method for navigation at sea.

Before Roosevelt had even completed his sea voyage home, doubts were raised over his claims of exploring and navigating a completely uncharted river over 625 miles ( 1, 000 km ) long.

| 2 | Before the Romans, came the Phoenicians, by sea from the eastern Mediterranean about three thousand years ago.

Before it reaches the sea, the river drops over a 12-foot high vertical weir called the Slaughterhouse Falls.

Before he can explain, the policemen grab him to take him to jail — but he escapes and is chased into the sea by the police dog.

Before the Trojan War, Poseidon sent a sea monster to attack Troy.

Before their act there was only the sea and the crocodilian earthmonster called Cipactli.

Before the Tertiary, when the sea level was much lower than at present, the Swan River curved around to the north of Rottnest Island, and disgorged itself into the Indian Ocean slightly to the north and west of Rottnest.

Before the introduction of image intensifiers, night glasses were the only method of night vision, and thus were widely utilized, especially at sea.

Before entering on his duties, College President Rear Admiral Stephen B. Luce pointed Mahan in the direction of writing his future studies on the influence of sea power.

Before the ruin of Beleriand at the end of the First Age, the sea was narrow and ice-filled in the north, forming the strait of Helcaraxë, the Grinding Ice.

Before the 13th century, the direct route to the sea at Highbridge was blocked by gravel banks and peat near Westhay.

Before his body could be captured by Ogle, Roberts ' wish to be buried at sea was fulfilled by his crew, who weighed his body down and threw it overboard after wrapping it in his ship's sail.

Before this could be done, the couple sailed out to sea and drowned themselves, forming the island now called < strong > Marinduque </ strong >.

Two Years Before the Mast is a book by the American author Richard Henry Dana, Jr., published in 1840, having been written after a two-year sea voyage starting in 1834.

Dana did not set out to write Two Years Before the Mast as a sea adventure, but to highlight how poorly common sailors were treated on ships.

Before the concerted attack could take place, he put to sea against the British fleet, under Admiral Howe.

Its landscape was shaped by the glaciers of the last Ice Age, which retreated about 25, 000 – 22, 000 years BP ( Before Present ).

* Before continuing his pursuit of Darius III, who has retreated into Bactria, Alexander assembles all the Persian treasure and entrusts it to Harpalus, who is to hold it at Ecbatana as chief treasurer.

Before the Nazis retreated from Kiev, they attempted to conceal their atrocities.

Before the situation could develop into a rout Mmanthatisi suddenly disengaged her armies and retreated with her hordes to the east.

Before he could pass the river with safety, however, it was necessary to subdue certain fortresses, one of which was for several days vigorously defended by the governor, Yussuf el-Harezmi, a Khwarezmian.

Before being released back into the river, the used water was held in large tanks known as retention basins for up to six hours.

( Before the bridge was completed trains crossed the river by ferry.

Before bridges were built, the main means of crossing the river was by ferry.

Before early modern nation-building, the Low Countries referred to a wide area of northern Europe as a low-lying triangular river delta for the rivers Rhine, Meuse, Scheldt, and Ems.

Before the creation of Llandaff Cathedral it became established as a Christian place of worship in the 6th century AD, probably because of its location as the first firm ground north of the point where the river Taff met the Bristol Channel, and because of its pre-Christian location as a river crossing on an east west trade route.

Before they surrendered to United States troops, the Mojave held lands along the river that stretched from Black Canyon, where the tall pillars of First House of Mutavilya loomed above the river, past Avi kwame or Spirit Mountain, the center of spiritual things, to the Quechan Valley, where the lands of other tribes began.

Before Tortosa, across the river, rise the massive Ports de Tortosa-Beseit mountains.

Before the St. Felix's Flood of 1530, it flowed north as a river from the east end of the Westerschelde, turned west a little west of Bergen op Zoom, and then west along the north edge of what is now the Verdronken Land van Reimerswaal, and after that widened into an estuary.

Before the Grand Canal was rebuilt, grain was transferred to Beijing in two ways ; one route was simply via the East China Sea, from the port of Liujiagang ( near Suzhou ); the other was a far more laborious process of transferring the grain from large to small shallow barges ( after passing the Huai River and having to cross southwestern Shandong ), then transferred back to large river barges on the Yellow River before finally reaching Beijing.

Before an effective sewerage system was built, it became an open sewer which dumped waste directly into the river for many years during the 1800s and early 1900s.

Before 1960, most of the buildings in Ekwok were located in a low area near the river.

Before the lock and dam system was built on the Kentucky River, Gratz was one of the most prosperous towns in the area due to the business of portaging goods around an unnavigable part of the river ( Lock # 2 is just up river at Lockport ).

Before the steel bridge was built in 1900, all timber north of Zalma had to be transported to Lutesville, the only outlet to the railroad, for after the mill dam was built, the river could be forded in dry seasons only.

Before a railroad bridge was built across the Missouri, freight cars were pushed onto barges on one side of the river, then pulled off on the other.

Before Anglos arrived, Native Americans camped along the river.

Thiensville Park, along the Milwaukee river, hosts the " Family Fun Before the Fourth " every year, the Saturday before July 4.

Before 1966, the issue of sharing river waters and development of projects had led to disputes between India and Pakistan as well as between the Indian states.

Before 1917 some Norwegian place names contained three or four consecutive " a " s: for instance ( now, a river ), ( Blååsen, ' the blå / blue ås / ridge '), and, though hypothetically, even the creek ( Rååa, ' the Rå creek '; a creek ).