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

* Laurentian Abyss is found off the eastern coast of Canada

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.

The Black Sea coast is characterized by a range of steep mountains that extend along the entire length of the coast, separating it from the inland Anatolian plateau.

The coast is rugged and rocky, with rivers that cascade through the gorges of the coastal ranges.

Access inland from the coast is limited to a few narrow valleys because mountain ridges.

Beginning in the west of Antalya province, the south-facing Mediterranean coast of Turkey is separated from the interior by steep ranges, known as the Taurus mountains, that run along the entire length of the coast.

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

Kildamhnait on the south east coast of Achill is named after St. Damhnait, or Dymphna, who founded a church there in the 16th century.

The most common is Martin Waldseemüller's deriving it from Americus Vespucius, the Latinised version of Amerigo Vespucci's name, the Italian merchant and cartographer who explored South America's east coast and the Caribbean sea in the early 16th century.

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

The McMurdo – South Pole Highway is a 900-mile ( 1450 km ) road in Antarctica linking the United States McMurdo Station on the coast to the Amundsen – Scott South Pole Station.

The average annual temperature is highest in the southwest along the coast, and lowest in the northeast among the highlands.

The amount of precipitation is greatest along the coast ( 62 inches / 1, 574 mm ) and evenly distributed through the rest of the state ( about 52 inches / 1, 320 mm ).

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

Earlier Pliny says that a large island of three days ' sail from the Scythian coast called Balcia by Xenophon of Lampsacus is called Basilia by Pytheas.

The largest species are red alder ( A. rubra ) on the west coast of North America, and black alder ( A. glutinosa ), native to most of Europe and widely introduced elsewhere, both reaching over 30 m. By contrast, the widespread Alnus viridis ( green alder ) is rarely more than a 5 m tall shrub.

Costera cabs drive up and down the coast of Acapulco, which is where most of the hotels for visitors are, but also includes some of old Acapulco.

* 1783 – A huge fireball meteor is seen across Great Britain as it passes over the east coast.

* 1796 – The Armistice of Cherasco is signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Vittorio Amedeo III, the King of Sardinia, expanding French territory along the Mediterranean coast.

The Save ( Sabi ) rises in Zimbabwe at an altitude of over, and after flowing south for over turns east and pierces the mountains some from the coast, being joined near the Zimbabwe-Mozambique frontier by the Lundi.

In the late 19th century, as Spanish influence expanded, Melilla became the only authorised centre of trade on the Rif coast between Tetuan and the Algerian frontier.

Beginning at the UAE-Oman border on the Persian Gulf coast of the Ras Musandam ( Musandam Peninsula ), the Al Hajar al Gharbi Mountains extend southeastward for about 150 kilometers to the southernmost UAE-Oman frontier on the Gulf of Oman.

Further operations and a British supporting attack along the Belgian coast from Niewpoort, combined with an amphibious landing, were to have reached Bruges and then the Dutch frontier.

In 1918 the Battle of the Lys and the Fifth Battle of Ypres, were fought before the Allies occupied the Belgian coast and reached the Dutch frontier.

A week after Messines Ridge Haig gave his objectives to his Army commanders: wearing out the enemy, securing the Belgian coast and connecting with the Dutch frontier by the capture of Passchendaele Ridge, followed by an advance on Roulers and Operation Hush, an attack along the coast with an amphibious landing and that if the manpower and artillery were insufficient, only the first part of the plan might be fulfilled.

In the earliest days of European settlement of the Atlantic coast, the frontier was essentially any part of the forested interior of the continent lying beyond the fringe of existing settlements along the coast and the great rivers, such as the St. Lawrence, Connecticut, Hudson, Delaware, Susquehanna River and James.

Some of the English migrants were settled in Byzantine frontier regions on the Black Sea coast and established towns with names such as " New London " and " New York ".

War did not materially change the outlines of the two kingdoms, though frontier cities like Damascus and the coast districts of Asia Minor might change hands.

In 1766 – 67 the Marqués de Rubí included the area in his inspection of the Spanish frontier, and the 1798 explorations of the coast by Francisco Vázquez de Coronado skirted the area.

These are straight line distances to cities, seas that wash the Spanish coast and the frontier with Portugal, France and Andorra:

A tram line runs the length of the coast, from De Panne on the French border to Knokke-Heist on the Dutch frontier.

Georgian is the most pervasive of the Kartvelian languages, a family that also includes Svan and Megrelian ( chiefly spoken in Northwest Georgia ) and Laz ( chiefly spoken along the Black Sea coast of Turkey, from Melyat, Rize to the Georgian frontier ).

Tromsø was not just a Norwegian outpost in an area mainly populated by the Sámi but also a frontier city towards Russia ; the Novgorod state had the right to tax the Sámi on the coast to Lyngstuva and on the inland to Skibotn River or Målselv River whereas Norway was allowed to tax areas east to-and including-the Kola Peninsula.

In the earliest days of European settlement of the Atlantic coast, from about 1600 to 1680, the frontier was essentially any part of the forested interior of the continent beyond the fringe of existing settlements along the coast.

As as result of these military successes, he was appointed by King Philip II of Spain as governor of Baiona, and keeper of the fortress of Monte Real, so warding the southern frontier and sea coast of Galicia.

In July the Hungarian army recrossed the frontier and advanced towards the Black Sea coast in order to march to Constantinople escorted by the galleys.

" Several important preachers on the east coast led in the " anti-missions " movement, but Elder Parker was the leader on the frontier, and probably spoke best to the common man.

General Carleton was given independent command of forces in Quebec and the northern frontier, while General William Howe was appointed Commander-in-Chief of forces along the Atlantic coast, an arrangement that had worked well between Generals Wolfe and Amherst in the French and Indian War.

In the 20th century the term was generally used for the company level sub-unit of an artillery branch including field, air-defence, anti-tank and position ( coast and frontier defences ).

But growing world demand in the 19th century, together with the provision of increasingly efficient firearms to hunters, created a moving " ivory frontier " as elephant herds near the coast were nearly exterminated.