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.

* Shore Region, encompassing Monmouth County and Ocean County.

* Marin County, California, is a southwards-pointing peninsula surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, the northern part of San Francisco Bay, and San Pablo Bay

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.

Acoli was captured after a 36-hour manhunt — involving 400 people, state police helicopters, and bloodhounds from the Ocean County Sheriff's Department — the following day.

Cayuga County has more waterfront land than any other county in the state not adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean.

Albany County was an enormous county, including the northern part of New York State as well as all of the present State of Vermont and, in theory, extending westward to the Pacific Ocean.

Albany County was an enormous county, including the northern part of New York State as well as all of the present State of Vermont and, in theory, extending westward to the Pacific Ocean.

Marion County is inland, centered between the Atlantic Ocean to the east and the Gulf of Mexico to the west.

The Acjachemen territory extended from Las Pulgas Creek in northern San Diego County up into the San Joaquin Hills along Orange County's central coast, and inland from the Pacific Ocean up into the Santa Ana Mountains.

Nassau County lies to the north, Baker County lies to the west, and Clay and St. Johns County lie to the south ; the Atlantic Ocean lies to the east, along with the Jacksonville Beaches.

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 lowest elevation is sea level along the Atlantic Ocean and the highest elevation is in the northwestern part of the county along State Route 12 just south of the Wicomico County line.

Major U. S. highways in Worcester County include U. S. Route 50, whose east end is in Ocean City.

Brevard County is a county in the U. S. state of Florida, along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean.

Of developable land in Broward County, approximately, the majority is built upon, as the urban area is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and the Everglades National Park to the west.

When Duval County was created, it covered a massive area, from the Suwannee River on the west to the Atlantic Ocean on the east, north of a line from the mouth of the Suwannee River to Jacksonville on the St. Johns River.

Volusia County (, ) is located in the east-central part of the U. S. state of Florida, bordered by the St. Johns River to the west and the south, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east.

Volusia County is bordered on the west by the St. Johns River and Lake Monroe, and by the Atlantic Ocean to the east.

Essex County is adjacent to Rockingham County, New Hampshire to the north, the Atlantic Ocean ( specifically the Gulf of Maine and Massachusetts Bay ) to the east, Suffolk County to the south, and Middlesex County to the west.

The South Atlantic Ocean has an additional submarine ridge, the Walvis Ridge.

The underground ocean, discovered in 2007, has been formed when the plate carrying the Pacific Ocean bottom gets dragged and ends up under the continental plate.

Since 1976, the Polynesian Voyaging Society's Hōkūle ‘ a has crossed the Pacific Ocean many times under navigators who have incorporated this wayfinding technique in their non-instrument navigation.

As a result of Kuroshio Current ( also known as the Japan Current ), which crosses the North Pacific Ocean, coastal British Columbia has a mild, rainy oceanic climate.

The story of the Churning of the Ocean of Milk or samudra manthan has its source in Indian mythology.

Since the establishment of the Revolutionary Government of Cuba in 1959, the country has sent more than 52, 000 medical workers abroad to work in needy countries, including countries affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and the 2005 Kashmir earthquake.

* Mayo has Ireland's highest cliffs ( second highest in Europe ) at Croaghaun, Achill island while the Benwee Head cliffs in Kilcommon Erris drop almost perpendicularly into the Atlantic Ocean.

The leading military power in the region, France has detachments on Mahoré and Réunion, and its Indian Ocean fleet sails the waters around the islands.

Interior portions of Connecticut have a humid continental climate, while the Connecticut shoreline ( the state's southern four counties ) has a borderline humid subtropical climate ( sometimes statistically meeting this climate's criteria, sometimes not ) with seasonal extremes tempered by proximity to the Atlantic Ocean.

Ecuador is bounded on the north by the Pacific Ocean, and has 2, 337 km of coastline.

The tropical Atlantic ocean experiences depressed activity due to increased vertical wind shear across the region during El Niño years .< ref > On the flip side however, the tropical Pacific Ocean east of the dateline has above normal activity during El Niño years due to well above average water temperatures and decreased windshear.

The ocean ecosystem has likely changed since the prewhaling era, making a return to prewhaling numbers infeasible ; many marine ecologists argue that existing gray whale numbers in the eastern Pacific Ocean are approximately at the population's carrying capacity.

Recently, there has been much interest in the possibility of exploiting seabed resources in the Arctic Ocean, bordered by Canada, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Russia and the United States ( see Territorial claims in the Arctic ).

The 2009 constitution of Bolivia states that the country has an unrenounceable right over the territory that gives it access to the Pacific Ocean and its maritime space.

It has been criticised on the grounds that it in fact excludes most of the islands in the North Atlantic, including Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton Island, and the Azores, and also that the only island referred to by the term that is actually in the North Atlantic Ocean is Ireland.

India and Japan signed a security cooperation agreement in which both will hold military exercises, police the Indian Ocean and conduct military-to-military exchanges on fighting terrorism, making India one of only three countries, the other two being the United States and Australia, with which Japan has such a security pact.

The whole country between the Alps and the Pyrenees, between the Rhine and the Ocean, has been laid waste by hordes of Quadi, Vandals, Sarmatians, Alans, Gepids, Herules, Saxons, Burgundians, Allemanni, and — alas!

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.

A much greater agricultural impact, however, has come from the salt-and pesticide-laden soil that the wind is known to carry as far away as the Himalaya Mountains and the Pacific Ocean.

Kenya has a coastline on the Indian Ocean, which contains swamps of East African mangroves.

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 ).

The lake has sizeable waves driven by the easterly winds blowing west to the Pacific Ocean.

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.

Historically Maldives has had a strategic importance because of its location on the major marine routes of the Indian Ocean.