By early June they were a hundred miles off the coast of Ceylon, by which time all four missionaries were hardened seafarers.

Had U.S. warships not appeared off the Dominican coast, there is every possibility that the country would now be wracked by civil war.

One female, collected on an island off the coast of Nicaragua, was gravid and measured 4 feet 8 inches from snout to vent ( her tail should be between 6 and 7 inches long ).

One Latin American country, Cuba, has become a Soviet bridgehead ninety miles off our coast.

* At Clarus, on the west coast of Asia Minor ; as at Delphi a holy spring which gave off a pneuma, from which the priests drank.

* Laurentian Abyss is found off the eastern coast of Canada

The cold water currents contribute to heavy fog off the coast of eastern Canada ( the Grand Banks of Newfoundland area ) and Africa's north-western coast.

The modern nation of Ethiopia, in northeast Africa, is nowhere near the Ethiopic Ocean, which would be said to lie off the west coast of Africa.

* Aran Islands: These islands off the west coast of Ireland, ( not to be confused with the Isle of Arran in Scotland's Firth of Clyde ), were unsuitable for arable farming because they were too rocky.

* 1943 – World War II: Operation Mincemeat: The submarine surfaces in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain to deposit a dead man planted with false invasion plans and dressed as a British military intelligence officer.

Achill Island () in County Mayo is the largest island off the coast of Ireland, and is situated off the west coast.

* 1986 – A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters ( 13 inches ) of rain in a day on Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

* 1801 – First Barbary War: The American schooner captures the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of modern-day Libya.

There is no economic activity in Antarctica at present, except for fishing off the coast and small-scale tourism, both based outside Antarctica.

There has been a trade in diving to catch abalone off parts of the United States coast from before 1939.

The largest abalone recorded in California is 12. 34 inches, caught by John Pepper somewhere off the coast of Humboldt county in September 1993.

* 1781 – American Revolutionary War: British and French ships clash in the Battle of Fort Royal off the coast of Martinique.

* 2007 – An 8. 0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1, 090.

* 1812 – War of 1812: American frigate defeats the British frigate off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada earning her nickname " Old Ironsides ".

She was banished on Tiberius ’ orders to the island of Pandataria ( now called Ventotene ) in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the coast of Campania.

The ruins have been excavated at a site near the village of Kanakia of Salamis, a few miles off the coast of Athens.

Sailing around the west coast of Scotland he halted off the Isle of Arran, and negotiations commenced.

The Clipper Ship " Flying Cloud " off the Needles, Isle of Wight, by James E. Buttersworth, 1859 – 60.

* insolent: Fallen off the Isle of Wight ferry.

* Isle of Ewe, an island off the west coast of Scotland

His sister Marjorie died of kidney disease in May and shortly after, on 22 May 1946, Orwell set off to live on the Isle of Jura.

The attack was a response to Iran's missile attack three days earlier on the MV Sea Isle City, a reflagged Kuwaiti oil tanker at anchor off Kuwait.

* Battle of Portland, a sea battle off the Isle of Portland in 1653 during the First Anglo-Dutch War

** The trawler Solway Harvester sinks off the Isle of Man.

* August 26 – August 30 – The Isle of Wight Festival 1970 takes place on East Afton Farm off the coast of England.

* March 19 – The wreck of the SS Georgiana, reputed to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser ever built and owned by the real Rhett Butler, is discovered off the Isle of Palms, South Carolina, by teenage diver E. Lee Spence, exactly 102 years after she was sunk with a million dollar cargo while attempting to run past the Union blockade into Charleston.

After their Defeat the Rebels retired to the Isle aux Noix, where they continued till lately, sending out some Parties, and many Emissaries, to debauch the Minds of the Canadians and Indians, in which they have proved too successful, and for which they were too well prepared by the Cabals and Intrigues of these two last years ; We knew of their being reinforced, and very considerably, I suppose, as they appeared in Numbers near St. John's last Sunday Evening ; where or when they landed, or the Particulars since, we have but very imperfect Accounts of, all Communications with the Forts of St. John's and Chambli, being, as far as I can find, entirely cut off.

Île de Ré ( formerly also Île de Rhé, Île de Rhéa or Île de Rhea-in English Isle of Rhé ) is an island off the west coast of France near La Rochelle, on the northern side of the Pertuis d ' Antioche strait.

Brier Island and Long Island can be found on the south side of the bay while Isle Haute is in the upper bay off Cape Chignecto.

* Westernmost Point — Isle of Ushant, off Brittany at

Calf of Man (), sometimes known as the Calf of Mann, is a island ( almost 1 square mile ), off the southwest coast of the Isle of Man.

* San Juan de Silicia, a ship in the Spanish Armada that sunk off the Isle of Mull, in Scotland

One of these was Warrosquyoake Shire an Aglicisation of the indigenous name, which was renamed Isle of Wight County in 1667, after the island off the south coast of England of the same name.

Læsø (" Isle of Hlér ") is the largest island in the North Sea bay of Kattegat, and is located off the northeast coast of the Jutland Peninsula, the Danish mainland.

* Bahama Bank ( off Maughold Head, Isle of Man ; replaced by Maughold Head lighthouse 1914 )

After numerous incidents that unlock portals from Delfino Plaza to three of Isle Delfino's other locations, including an attempted kidnapping of Princess Peach, Mario follows Shadow Mario, who has kidnapped Princess Peach, to Pinna Park, an amusement park located just off the coast of Isle Delfino's " tail ".

* Holy Isle, Firth of Clyde, off the Isle of Arran

Although the isostatic rise of land makes estimating post-glacial coastlines a complex task, c. 14, 000 BP it is likely that Staffa was part of a larger island, just off the coast of mainland Scotland, which at that time would have included what is now the Isle of Mull, Iona and the Treshnish Isles.