The highest mountains of the West Indies are in this range: Pico Duarte, 3, 098 m, and others above 3, 000 m. Near the center of the island, this range turns southward and is called Sierra de Ocoa, finishing near the city of Azua de Compostela, on the Caribbean coast.

Near the coast there are areas where the dunes are vegetated with hammocks.

* Farming reaches Atlantic coast of Europe from Ancient Near East ( c. 5000 BC ).

Near the coast of Djibouti lies a group of smaller islands known as the " Seven Brothers ".

Near the center of the coast lies Little Harbor, a large inlet divided from the ocean by Beach Island.

Near Esbjerg on the west coast stands Svend Wiig Hansen's enormous sculpture of four chalky white figures gazing out at the sea.

Near the fourteenth century AD, Māori arrived in Heretaunga or Hawke's Bay, settling in the river valleys and along the coast where food was plentiful.

Near the coast, the cold ocean water is rich in fishery resources and supports populations of brown fur seals and shorebirds, which serve as prey for the Skeleton Coast's lions.

Near the eastern coast, it ran along the line of the Trigno river.

Near the coast on Federal Highway 200 is situated a rich agricultural industries region.

Near the Sicilian coast, however, a nervous Allied naval vessel suddenly fired upon the formation.

Near the 1995 new year, Misawa experienced two earthquakes — 7. 5 and 7. 9 on the Richter scale at the epicenter off the coast of Hachinohe.

She established a coast patrol on Cythera and Antikythera to protect her trade route to Constantinople ; Cythera was one of the islands Venice continued to hold destpire the Greek reconquest of Constantinople and the Turkish presence all over the Near East.

Although there was a lively trade between the Near East and India via Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf, the most direct route to India in the 1st century was via Alexandria and the Red Sea, taking advantage of the Monsoon winds, which could carry ships directly to and from the Malabar coast.

Both cemeteries such as the Kerameikos in Athens or Lefkandi and sanctuaries such as Olympia, recently-founded Delphi or the Heraion of Samos, first of the colossal free-standing temples, are richly provided with offerings including items from the Near East, from Egypt and from Italy made of exotic materials such as amber or ivory, while exports of Greek pottery demonstrate contact with the Levant coast at such sites as Al Mina and with the region of the Villanovan culture to the north of Rome.

Near the coast of Natal in South Africa, the team spent two seasons attempting to film the annual sardine run, a huge congregation of predators such as sharks and dolphins that assembles to feast on the migrating fish by corralling them into ' bait balls '.

Near the coast of the Bentiaba desert have been found Late Cretaceous fossils of sharks, turtles, mosasaurs, plesiosaurs and sauropods.

Near the mouth of the river, the only dinosaur fragments ever discovered in Oregon were found in the Otter Point Formation, along the coast of Curry County.

Near the coast, the depths are shallower than but they rapidly increase northwards up to a few kilometers, transforming into a massive platform which is geologically similar to that of the oceans.

Near the coast are living coral areas, sandbanks, and mudflats.

Near Mogadishu, it turns sharply southwest, where it follows the coast.

Near the coast, the land is low and extremely flat, and often marshy.

Near the coast, the terrain is occupied by the Tiburones cienaga.

Near the south coast of Cornwall, east of the Wolf Rock, the new ship's engines failed.

Near room temperatures, metals have resistance.

Near the tops of the mountains, total annual precipitation can exceed per year, as opposed to in the valleys.

Near the bottom, the consumption of DO by aquatic organisms and chemical reactions exceed the rate of replenishment, resulting in lower DO levels.

Near the southern border, cattle of the early longhorn breed whose coloration was black with a lineback, with white speckles frequently appearin' on the sides and belly, were called `` zorrillas ''.

Near it was a metal ladder on casters attached to the top shelf.

There is no agreement on when and where this Urheimat existed, though the language is generally believed to have originated somewhere in or near the region stretching from the Levant / Near East to the area between the Eastern Sahara and the Horn of Africa, including Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan.

Near the start of the English Civil War, on 18 August 1643 Parliament passed " An Ordinance for Explanation of a former Ordinance for Sequestration of Delinquents Estates with some Enlargements.

She died on 22 December 1943 at her home in Near Sawrey at age 77, leaving almost all her property to the National Trust.

The couple moved immediately to Near Sawrey, residing at Castle Cottage, the renovated farm house on Castle Farm.

The lowland bongo faces an ongoing population decline and the IUCN Antelope Specialist Group considers the western or lowland bongo, T. eurycerus eurycerus, to be Near Threatened on the conservation status scale.

Near impacts have been depicted in Jules Verne's Off on a Comet and Tove Jansson's Comet in Moominland, while a large manned space expedition visits Halley's Comet in Sir Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2061: Odyssey Three.

Near the end of his life, DeMille began pre-production work on a film biography of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scout Movement and had asked David Niven to star in the film, which was never made.

Near the green typically stand historical visual symbols of New England towns, such as a white church, a colonial meeting house, a colonial tavern or " inne ", several colonial houses, and so on, establishing a scenic historic appearance maintained for both historic preservation and tourism.

In addition to ongoing beautification and renewal projects for the existing parks, a number of new parks have been added in recent years, such as the Ping Tom Memorial Park in Chinatown, DuSable Park on the Near North Side, and most notably, Millennium Park in a section of one of Chicago's oldest parks, Grant Park in the Chicago Loop.

Near the bridge on the Peninsula are Menlo Park's Bayfront Park, East Palo Alto's Ravenswood Open Space Preserve, and the Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve.

Near Padstow, a Roman site of some importance now lies buried under the sands on the opposite side of the Camel estuary near St. Enodoc's Church, and may have been a western coastal equivalent of a Saxon Shore Fort.

Near the town of Sillamäe, site of a former uranium enrichment plant, about 1, 200 tons of uranium and about 750 tons of thorium had been dumped into a reservoir on the shore of the Gulf of Finland.

Near the end of his 1796 paper on living and fossil elephants he said:

The most recent study on the ante-Aesopic fables or the fables in ancient Near Eastern languages by Akimoto discovers the rich fable traditions in ancient Mesopotamia and Anatolia ; for example, the Ninurta-uballitsu Assyrian fable collection which is the oldest known fable collection with the compiler's autograph and the completion date 883 BCE, the Hurrian-Hittite bilingual fable collections are embedded in a long myth and the storyteller tells after each fable his / her own moral.

The collections are: Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka ( 1831-1832 ) with the stories St John's Eve and A Terrible Vengeance, Arabesques ( 1835 ), with the story The Portrait, and Mirgorod ( 1835 ), with the story Viy.

* Burkert, Walter, The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age, 1998

The language of the Hattusa tablets was eventually deciphered by a Czech linguist, Bedřich Hrozný ( 1879 – 1952 ), who on 24 November 1915 announced his results in a lecture at the Near Eastern Society of Berlin.

Near the end of the Second World War, Allied forces discovered that the SS had compiled lists of people slated for immediate arrest during the invasion of Britain in the abandoned Operation Sea Lion, and Wells was included in the alphabetical list on the same page of " The Black Book " as Rebecca West.

Near the castle ruins, on the West Hill, are " St Clement's Caves ", partly natural, but mainly excavated by hand by the smugglers from the soft sandstone.

The religion of the Israelites of Iron Age I, like many Ancient Near Eastern religions, was based on the cult of the ancestors and the worship of family gods ( the " gods of the fathers ").

The Atharvaveda, a sacred text of Hinduism dating from the Early Iron Age, is the first Indian text dealing with medicine, like the medicine of the Ancient Near East based on concepts of the exorcism of demons and magic.

Near the junction of the two rivers, the Yarmouk forms the boundary between Israel on the northwest, Syria on the northeast, and Jordan on the south.