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 coast, temperatures exceed on only 5 days a year.

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 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 the surface, warm moist air is denser than dry air of greater temperature, and thus the warm moist air wedges under the drier air like a cold front.

Near the surface, warm dry air is less dense than warm moist air of lesser or similar temperature, and thus the warm moist air wedges under the dry air like a cold front.

Near Box Elder, the climate is warmer during the summer months, as a result of the lower elevation, and windier during the cold winter months.

" As a result of the WISE science team's investigation, the demise of the dinosaurs remains in the cold case files ," said Lindley Johnson, program executive for the Near Earth Object ( NEO ) Observation Program.

This analysis has shown that modern man entered Europe from the Near East before the Last Glacial Maximum but retreated to refuges in southern Europe in this cold period.

Near the surface, the MCC exhibits high pressure, with an outflow boundary, or mesoscale cold front, at its leading edge.

Near La Libertad, however, the mass of the mountains push the lowlands out ; the slopes of adjacent volcanoes come down directly to the ocean.

The form of a Sumerian temple is manifestation of Near Eastern cosmology, which described the world as a disc of land which was surrounded by a salt water ocean, both of which floated on another sea of fresh water called apsu, above them was a hemispherical firmament which regulated time.

Near Agness, the river produces large catches of immature steelhead known as " half-pounders " that return from the ocean to the river in August in large schools.

* Near the present-day town of Salmon Creek: Pulya-lakum ( on the ocean, near the mouth of Salmon Creek ).

Near the point of its first landfall, few structures were destroyed and ocean overwash across the barrier island was limited, though the extent of the damage far exceeded that of Hurricane Charley.

Near the ocean, the maximum rainfall amount was in Pearl River Locks, Louisiana, though much greater amounts were recorded further inland, including in Clinton, Arkansas.

Near the end that is towards the island called Ta is a large cannon left over from the Japanese that points out into the ocean.

Near the coast, the department has constructed sea water barriers that use injection wells to create a fresh water barrier to prevent salt water intrusion from the ocean into the groundwater.

Near the Danish straits the salinity is close to that of the Kattegat, but still not fully oceanic, because the saltiest water that passes the straits is still already mixed with considerable amounts of outflow water.

In the Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts it is revealed the ancient Egyptians believed Nun ( the Ocean ) was a circular body surrounding nbwt ( a term meaning " dry lands " or " Islands ") and therefore believed in a similar Ancient Near Eastern circular earth cosmography surrounded by water.

Near the end of the recovery, the rower squares the blade ( rotates the blade to perpendicular to the water ), and then repeats the stroke again, beginning with the catch.

The 2nd century writer Lucian gave an account of the Greek Deucalion in De Dea Syria that seems to refer more to the Near Eastern flood legends: in his version, Deucalion ( whom he also calls Sisythus ) took his children, their wives, and pairs of animals with him on the ark, and later built a great temple in Manbij ( northern Syria ), on the site of the chasm that received all the waters ; he further describes how pilgrims brought vessels of sea water to this place twice a year, from as far as Arabia and Mesopotamia, to commemorate this event.

Near the confluence of Elk and Mores Creeks, its plentiful water supply allowed it to outgrow the other nearby camps in the basin, such as Placerville, Pioneerville, and Centerville.

Near the burial mound are two large water towers, built in the 19th century, which Norwood uses to store water and regulate water pressure throughout its City.

Near Haystack Rock are the Needles, two tall rocks rising straight out of the water.

Near King's Norton Junction there is a disused stop lock, which used to prevent the canal taking water from the Worcester and Birmingham Canal when they were separately owned, but is now left permanently open.

Near drowning is the survival of a drowning event involving unconsciousness or water inhalation and can lead to serious secondary complications, including death, after the event.

Near Adelaide, in South Australia, three bottlenose dolphins ' tail-walk ', whereby they elevate the upper part of their bodies vertically out of the water, and propel themselves along the surface with powerful tail movements.

Near the parking lot are some buildings and a pool of hot water to soak your feet in while you take in the beautiful view.

Near the end of the talks between the city and the water company, it was discovered that neither the requested records nor a map of the water system existed.

Near Nevinnomyssk there is a dam to supply water to the Nevinnomyssk channel.

Near Krasnodar, this contribution drops to 32 %; meanwhile, the water supply from the subsoil water increases from 21 % to 32 %, and of the rainwater from 27 % to 32 %.

Near midnight, the vessel began to take on massive amounts of water.

( Seeley states that the authors of Genesis, like other peoples of the ancient Near East, conceived the earth as a flat, circular disk, floating like a bubble in a limitless expanse of water, with a solid sky ( the firmament ) separating the dry land inhabited by man and the other animals from the surrounding waters ; when God opens the " windows of heaven " and the " fountains of the Deep ", it is these waters which enter and flood the world ).

Near the bridge of Ovens over the river Bride is the entrance of the celebrated limestone caves, which Smith, in his history of Cork, describes as 18 feet in height ; but from the accumulation of rubbish they are now not more than three feet high and are nearly filled with water.