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.

By the same time, the Croatian Adriatic coast had taken shape as an internationally popular tourist destination, all coastal republics ( but mostly SR Croatia ) profited greatly from this, as tourist numbers reached levels still unsurpassed in modern Croatia.

The terrain is mostly a flat but gradually sloping icecap that covers all land except for a narrow, mountainous, barren, rocky coast.

Formally given to bishop Philip of Senj, the permission to use the Glagolitic liturgy ( the Roman Rite conducted in Slavic language instead of Latin, not the Byzantine rite ), actually extended to all Croatian lands, mostly along the Adriatic coast.

Asian-owned export assembly firms ( maquiladoras ), operating mostly in free zones established by the government on the Caribbean coast, attract thousands of job seekers and swell the populations of new city centers such as San Pedro Sula, Tela, and La Ceiba.

They have mostly been encountered off the west coast of Vancouver Island and near the Queen Charlotte Islands.

Liberia has a mostly hilly terrain, from rolling plains along the coast to a rolling plateau and low mountains in the northeast.

The Panama route was also vulnerable to attack from pirates ( mostly Dutch and English ) and from ' new world ' Africans called cimarrons who had freed themselves from enslavement and lived in communes or palenques around the Camino Real in Panama's Interior, and on some of the islands off Panama's Pacific coast.

These regions are mostly to the east, near the coast.

The terrain is mostly rugged and mountainous, with fertile lowlands along the coast.

South Korea is mostly surrounded by water and has of coast line along three seas.

Beyond Punta del Este in the still mostly undeveloped department of Rocha, a number of communities had sprouted along the unspoiled Atlantic coast with its kilometres of sandy beaches and huge breakers.

During the occupation of Havana by British forces between August 1762 and July 1763, quantities of Cuban or Havanna mahogany were sent to Britain, and after the city was restored to Spain in 1763 small quantities continue to be exported, mostly to small ports on the north coast of Jamaica, from where it was sent to Britain.

* Bandol AOC, grown in the Var on the coast west of Toulon, mostly around the villages of La Cadiere d ' Azur and Castellet.

The city of Galveston is situated on Galveston Island, a barrier island that is made up mostly of sand-sized particles and smaller amounts of finer mud sediments and larger gravel-sized sediments on the Texas Gulf coast near the mainland coast.

The interior and the coast east of Nordkapp ( corresponding to Finnmarksvidda and eastern Finnmark ) is less dominated by mountains, and is mostly below 400 m. The interior is dominated by the large Finnmarksvidda plateau.

There are many islands in Hudson Bay, mostly near the eastern coast.

The circumstances of the retreat were disastrous, and all told, some 155, 000 Serbs, mostly soldiers, reached the coast of the Adriatic Sea, and embarked on Allied transport ships that carried the army to various Greek islands ( many to Corfu ) before being sent to Salonika.

On the southwest lay the Arabian Sea but the coast was mostly composed of the Indus delta.

He lived in France for 10 years, painting mostly landscapes of the Normandy coast.

It is home to the abandoned prison, the site of the oldest operating lighthouse on the west coast of the United States, early military fortifications, and natural features such as rock pools and a seabird colony ( mostly Western Gulls, cormorants, and egrets ).

At this time, a spreading center between the Pacific Plate and the Farallon Plate ( which is now mostly subducted, with remnants including the Juan de Fuca Plate, Rivera Plate, Cocos Plate, and the Nazca Plate ) was beginning to interact with the subduction zone off the western coast of North America.

Winds are mostly from the north and northwest in the winter, blowing gently at in northern and central areas and near the coast.

Although mostly used by coast radio stations, there is nothing to stop individual craft broadcasting their own Sécurité messages where appropriate, for example, a yacht becalmed ( rendered motionless for lack of wind ), or any vessel adrift or unable to manoeuvre near other craft or shipping lanes.