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On the seabed off the west coast of the island rests a block of rock 22 km long and 11 km wide, which appears to have slid off the island largely intact at some point in prehistory, similar to the predicted future collapse of Cumbre Vieja, a geological fault on the neighboring island, La Palma.
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On and seabed
On their 1960 descent, the crew of the Trieste noted that the floor consisted of diatomaceous ooze and reported observing " some type of flatfish, resembling a sole, about 1 foot long and 6 inches across " lying on the seabed.
On 16 March 2008, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced that the wreck of the World War II German raider Kormoran had been found on the seabed about 150 kilometres west of the island.
On the barren seabed of the Gulf of Mexico, an underwater lake composed of a much denser salt solution was discovered, with what appeared to be a sandy beach.
On 28 November 2005, documentary film-maker Damien Lay claimed that the wreckage of M-24, a Japanese midget submarine involved in the attack on Sydney Harbour in 1942 and disappeared soon afterward, was buried under sand on the seabed, just east of Lion Island.
On and under the seabed are archaeological sites of historic interest, such as shipwrecks and sunken towns.
On 29 August 1964, while engaged in taking sample cores and photographing the seabed west of Cape Horn, the Eltanin took the photograph reproduced in this article, at position 59: 07 ' S 105: 03 ' W, in a depth of 3, 904 meters.
On a nautical chart, the drying height is the vertical distance of the seabed that is exposed by the tide, above the level of the sea at the lowest astronomical tide.
On Devil's Reef, Jack discovers old smuggling tunnels beneath the seabed and finds a tunnel leading to the underwater city of Y ' ha-nthlei.
On and off
On a military mission for his native Virginia the youthful George Washington touched off the French and Indian War, then guarded his colony's frontier as head of its militia.
On the other hand, looking at the larger picture, is it true that pupil assignment has effectively cut off, blocked, or reduced school desegregation to a `` trickle ''??
On November 4, 1952, an earthquake occurred under the sea off the Kamchatka Peninsula.
On the south it ended sharply as though the lava had been cut off there suddenly.
On his way down, Arnulf suffered a stroke, forcing him to call off his campaign and return to Bavaria.
* On March 7, 1998, Daniel Rudolph, the elder brother of the 1996 Olympics bomber Eric Robert Rudolph, videotaped himself cutting off one of his own hands with an electric saw to " send a message to the FBI and the media.
On August 28, Nami and Ahmed al-Haznawi reportedly bothered a Delray Beach resident, Maria Siscar Simpson, to let them through her apartment to retrieve a towel that had fallen off their balcony onto hers.
On the fourth day of the first Test match at Antigua Recreation Ground, St John's, Antigua during India's tour of West Indies, 2006, Mahendra Singh Dhoni's flick off Dave Mohammed to the midwicket region was caught by Daren Ganga.
On 28 November Teach's two ships attacked a French merchant vessel off the coast of Saint Vincent.
On 5 December 1717 Teach stopped the merchant sloop Margaret off the coast of Crab Island, near Anguilla.
On 9 June the fleet arrived off Malta, then under the ownership of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, ruled by Grand Master Ferdinand von Hompesch zu Bolheim.
On 7 June, following hasty repairs to his flagship, Nelson was joined off Toulon by a fleet of ten ships of the line and a fourth rate ship.
On 12 August the frigates HMS Emerald under Captain Thomas Moutray Waller, HMS Alcmene under Captain George Johnstone Hope and HMS Bonne Citoyenne under Captain Robert Retalick arrived off Alexandria.
On 19 December 2005 Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101 from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to Bimini, Bahamas, with an unscheduled stop at Watson Island, Miami, Florida, crashed off Miami Beach, Florida.
On July 10, the Cossacks fell into a panic, believing that their commanders had run off in the night, leaving them to their fate.
On more modern canals, " guard locks " or gates were sometimes placed to allow a section of canal to be quickly closed off, either for maintenance, or to prevent a major loss of water due to a canal breach.
On August 25, the Indians signed the team leader in home runs, Jim Thome off of waivers.
In his On the Will in Nature, " Physiology and Pathology ," Schopenhauer said that a concept is " drawn off from previous images ... by putting off their differences.
On February 3 and 4, 2001, the first time in his career, Earnhardt participated in the Rolex 24 endurance race at Daytona, the event which kicks off Speedweeks at the track.
After the all-clear, McLean re-appeared and sang “ On the Amazon ” from exactly where he had left off.
On January 27, 2011, almost all internet connectivity to Egypt was shut off by the Egyptian government.
On an Etruscan mirror Thesan is shown carrying off a young man, whose name is inscribed as Tinthu </ small >.
On 8 February 1813 the British ship Isabella, a ship of 193 tons and a crew of fourteen, was wrecked off the coast of Eagle Island ( now known as Speedwell Island ).
On 5 April Captain Charles Barnard of the American sealer Nanina was sailing off the shore of Eagle Island, with a discovery boat deployed looking for seals.
On and west
On September 10, 1861, Johnston was assigned to command the huge area of the Confederacy west of the Allegheny Mountains, except for coastal areas.
On the Sandberg, the Schnaitberg and the Schradenberg hills, all in the west of Aalen, the Eisensandstein ( Iron Sandstone ) formation emerges to the surface.
On the west side of Hawkcraig Point there is a short concrete jetty that was used as part of the development of radio controlled torpedoes during World War One.
On January 17, 1725, the Province of Massachusetts Bay, which then claimed territories west of the Merrimack River, granted the Concord area as the Plantation of Penacook.
On 3 April 1918, the 10, 000-strong Baltic Sea Division led by Rüdiger von der Goltz struck west of Helsinki at Hanko.
On 8 July, Auchinleck ordered the new XXX Corps commander — Lieutenant-General William Ramsden — to capture the low ridges at Tel el Eisa and Tel el Makh Khad and then to push mobile battle groups south toward Deir el Shein and raiding parties west toward the airfields at El Daba.
Germany defeated: On the basis of the Potsdam Conference, the Allies jointly occupied Germany west of the Oder – Neisse line.
On December 1, King Abdullah announced the union of Transjordan with Arab Palestine west of the Jordan, the new state name being the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
On the north side of the Nieuwe Waterweg, to the west of the town, is a pier part of which is accessible to pedestrians and cyclists.
On the early morning hours of 1 March 1953, after an all-night dinner and a movie Stalin arrived at his Kuntsevo residence some 15 km west of Moscow centre with interior minister Lavrentiy Beria and future premiers Georgy Malenkov, Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev where he retired to his bedroom to sleep.
On the north, the main defining feature is the fault-based " Escarpment ", a long ridge that extends from Flagstaff in the west, through Windsor in the centre, to Campbells and the start of the Barbecue Bottom Road ( B10 ).
On the west coast there are sand dunes.
On 12 September 1942,, carrying some 80 civilians, 268 British Army soldiers, about 1, 800 Italian prisoners of war, and 160 Polish soldiers ( on guard ), was struck and sunk by a torpedo from Kriegsmarine submarine off the coast of west Africa.
On 1 September, Germany invaded Poland from the west.
On July 5, 2006, they tested a Taepodong-2 ICBM that reportedly could reach the west coast of the U. S. in the 2-stage version, or the entire U. S. with a third stage.
On the western plain, looking south south west towards Charlestown.
On the west side, you will see the entrance to the St. Stevenskerk courtyard.
On 26 April 2006, Neil Kinnock was given a six-month driving ban after being found guilty of two speeding offences along the M4 motorway, west of London.
On the upper course, sudden floods may raise the water level by as much as five meters in twenty-four hours ; west of Encarnación, however, the rocks of the riverbed sometimes come within one meter of the surface during winter and effectively sever communication between the upper river and Buenos Aires.
* On 27 December 1831, set off from anchorage in the Barn Pool, under Mount Edgecumbe on the west side of Plymouth Sound, on her second survey voyage, captained by Robert FitzRoy with Charles Darwin on board.
On the west coast, amateur RTTY also started on 2 meters.
On May 21, he camped outside the city, positioning himself east of the Citadel of Aleppo, while his forces encircles the suburb of Banaqusa to the northeast and Bab Janan to the west.
On 14 August, about 200 tons of rock fell from the west side of Jamestown severely damaging the Baptist chapel and surrounding buildings.
On the west is the Hatton Plateau, a deeply dissected series of ridges sloping downward toward the north.
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