The Hudson River connects Albany to the Atlantic port of New York City and the Erie Canal completed a navigable water route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes.

Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are boroughs of New York City ( Queens and Brooklyn ),< ref > The New York City borough of Queens has the same boundaries as the County of Queens.

The LTTE has been accused of hijacking several vessels and ships in waters outside Sri Lanka, including Ocean Trader ( in October 1994 ), Irish Mona ( in August 1995 ), Princess Wave ( in August 1996 ), Athena ( in May 1997 ), Misen ( in July 1997 ), Morong Bong ( in July 1997 ), MV Cordiality ( in September 1997 ), Princess Kash ( in August 1998 ), Newko ( in July 1999 ), Uhana ( in June 2000 ), Fuyuan Ya 225 ( Chinese trawler, in March 2003 ), MV Farah III ( in December 2006 ) and City of Liverpool ( in January 2007 ).

They used the monsoon winds to sail across the Indian Ocean to land at the sheltered harbor located on the site of present-day Zanzibar City.

* July 21 – Francis Chichester, English navigator and yachtsman, arrives at New York City aboard his yacht, Gypsy Moth II, crossing the Atlantic Ocean solo in a new record of just forty days.

After leaving politics, Agnew became an international trade executive with homes in Rancho Mirage, California ; Arnold, Maryland ; Bowie, Maryland ; and near Ocean City, Maryland.

Agnew died unexpectedly on September 17, 1996, aged 77 at Atlantic General Hospital, in Berlin, Maryland, in Worcester County ( near his Ocean City home ), only a few hours after being hospitalized and diagnosed with an advanced, yet to that point undetected, form of leukemia.

Rickshaws are still present on the boardwalks of Atlantic City and Ocean City, New Jersey, and in some parts of New York City.

Meanwhile, the remainder of waters drain south via the Hudson River ( Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk or Muhheakantuck ), and ultimately flow south into the Atlantic Ocean below New York City.

The primary source of precipitation in Salt Lake City is massive Pacific storms that move in from the Pacific Ocean along the jet stream from approximately October through May.

It is situated on the Atlantic Ocean coast at the mouth of the Demerara River and it was nicknamed ' Garden City of the Caribbean.

The City is protected from the Atlantic Ocean by the Georgetown Seawall.

It is known as the City of Acacias in reference to acacia trees commonly found along its avenues and the Pearl of the Indian Ocean.

Sediment in motion at Ocean City.

* Ocean City, Maryland is a popular beach and resort town.

Tourism is a major contributor to the peninsula's economy with the beaches at Rehoboth Beach, Delaware and Ocean City, Maryland being popular tourist destinations.

It is home to the popular vacation resort area of Ocean City, as well as wild habitats on Assateague Island and in the Pocomoke Swamp.

Also in the later 19th century, the seaside resort of Ocean City was founded.

The expansion of Ocean City since the 1960s has turned the northern part of the county from a summer resort to an expanding year-round community.

Two major storms influenced the course of Worcester County history in the 20th century: the hurricane of 1933, which badly damaged Ocean City and Public Landing, but also cut the Ocean City Inlet, and the nor ' easter of 1962, which destroyed much of the residential development on Assateague Island and led to the creation of the National Seashore.

The Aethiopian Sea, Ethiopic Ocean or Ethiopian Ocean ( Okeanos Aithiopos ), is an old name for what is now called the South Atlantic Ocean, which is separated from the North Atlantic Ocean by a narrow region between Natal, Brazil and Monrovia, Liberia.

* 1610 – Henry Hudson sails into what is now known as Hudson Bay thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.

The first elected trustees of the town were the slate of Denis Kearney's Workingman's Party, who were particularly favored in the working class area of the former Ocean View, now called " West Berkeley.

Seafloor spreading at the boundary between the Indian and African Plates subsequently pushed India north over the plume, which now lies under Réunion island in the Indian Ocean, southwest of India.

The Portuguese, based at Goa and Malacca, had now established a lucrative maritime empire in the Indian Ocean meant to monopolise the spice trade.

In 1973, along with his two sons and Frederick Hyman, he created the Cousteau Society for the Protection of Ocean Life, Frederick Hyman being its first President ; it now has more than 300, 000 members.

Specialists from Raytheon, Simrad ( now Kongsberg Maritime ), and Hydroacoustics, Inc .; Marty Klein of MIT and Klein Associates ( a producer of side scan sonar ); and Dr. Ira Dyer of MIT's Department of Ocean Engineering were all on hand to examine the data.

Madagascar historically has remained outside the mainstream of African affairs, although it is a member of the Indian Ocean Commission, the Organization of African Unity ( now renamed the AU ) and the Non-Aligned Movement.

In this analogy, what was previously a still, shoreless Ocean now stirred, forming innumerable " drops " of itself or souls.

During the Ice Ages, the sea level of the Atlantic Ocean dropped so much that the Baltic Sea, the Gulf of Bothnia, and the Gulf of Finland disappeared, and the countries now surrounding them, including Germany, Poland, the other Baltic countries and Scandinavia, were directly joined by land.

When today ’ s continents have reached their maximum dispersal ( millions of years from now ), the crust of the Atlantic Ocean bordering the continents will grow dense enough to sink into the mantle ; creating subduction zones around the Atlantic Basin.

* August 2 – Henry Hudson sails into what it is now known as Hudson Bay, thinking he has made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.

Many airstrips ( now mostly abandoned ) were built on the hundreds of islands in the Pacific Ocean during World War II.

On the outgoing journey, sailing with the summer monsoon wind, it had taken Gama's fleet only 23 days to cross the Indian Ocean ; now, on the return trip, sailing against the wind, it took 132 days.

Many of those creoles are now extinct, but others still survive in the Caribbean, the north and east coasts of South America ( The Guyanas ), western Africa, Australia ( see Australian Kriol language ), and in the Indian Ocean.

In former years copra was collected by traders going from island to island and port to port in the Pacific Ocean but South Pacific production is now much diminished, with the exception of Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.

Forty million years ago the Southern Ocean reached the base of the northern and western base of the mountain range, the deposition from the range forming the sea floor which is now Little Desert National Park.

East of the terranes that now form the Alps was the Paleo-Tethys Ocean.

In some fragments of the Piemont-Liguria Ocean now in the Penninic nappes an Eo-Alpine deformation phase can also be recognized.

In the 1927 New Jersey state highway renumbering, Route 34 was legislated to run from an intersection with Route 35 ( now Route 88 in Laurelton, Ocean County north to Route 4 ( now Route 79 ) in Matawan, with the portion of current Route 34 north of that intersection legislated as part of Route 4.

Pacific Biological Laboratories, a biological supply house, was located at 800 Ocean View Avenue ( now 800 Cannery Row ) from 1928 to 1948, and operated by Edward F. Ricketts, who was the inspiration for several characters in Steinbeck novels.