It takes a few weeks to transfer tanks and their supporting equipment by air or sea.

:" For those who sail from Skåne ( Sconia ) of the Danes to Birka, the journey takes five days, from Birka to Russia ( Ruzziam ) likewise five days at sea.

For example: say a tank engine takes an estimated 35 days to ship by sea from the US to Korea.

Studio Ghibli President Toshio Suzuki noted that " 70 to 80 % of the film takes place at sea.

Transport in Niue takes place on a road network, and via an ( international ) airport and a sea port.

Its source is just 240 km ( 150 mi ) inland from the Atlantic Ocean, but the river runs directly away from the sea into the Sahara Desert, then takes a sharp right turn near the ancient city of Timbuktu ( Tombouctou ) and heads southeast to the Gulf of Guinea.

Farming takes place in the sea where the Porphyra plants grow attached to nets suspended at the sea surface and where the farmers operate from boats.

Glaucus then takes her corpse to a crystal palace at the bottom of the ocean where lay the bodies of all lovers who have died at sea.

* Penn Cove Mussel Festival, which takes place in March, celebrates the bounty of the sea, especially the mussel.

** A 3-front revolutionary invasion by air and sea takes place in the Dominican Republic, consisting of exiles aided by Fidel Castro and the Venezuelan government, whose objective is to overthrow dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo.

Known in the Middle Ages as the Murman Sea, the sea takes its current name from the Dutch navigator Willem Barents.

It takes its name from the Schlei, an inlet of the Baltic sea at the end of which it sits, and " vik " or " vig " which means bay in the old Viking language and modern Danish language.

The journey takes approximately 30 minutes with 10 minutes each leaving Ibiza, crossing the sea, and arriving in Formentera past the isthmus to Espalmador.

* The 2011 computer game Anno 2070 takes place in the year 2070, predicting that the sea level raised dangerously.

The gonads are lined with muscles underneath the peritoneum, and these allow the animal to squeeze its gametes through the duct and into the surrounding sea water where fertilization takes place.

A geodetic vertical datum takes some specific zero point, and computes elevations based on the geodetic model being used, without further reference to sea levels.

Observing two instances of the early genitive form fomra, Kuno Meyer arrives at the same etymology, but takes it to refer to land by the sea.

The Table Mountain Cableway takes passengers from the lower cable station on Tafelberg Road, about 302 m above sea level, to the plateau at the top of the mountain.

As soon as Dylan comes in contact with his baptismal waters, he plunges into the sea and takes on characteristics of a sea creature, moving through the seawater as perfectly as any fish:

Angered, Anguta takes her out to sea and throws her over the side of his kayak.

In each version, the father takes her to sea in his kayak, severing her fingers and hands.

Tangaroa takes the child to the bottom of the sea and makes him into a tekoteko ( carved figure ) on the ridge-pole of his house, above the door.

On the other hand, Arnold's `` The unplumbed, salt, estranging sea '', taken in its context, certainly does so.

During his second week at sea he brought the curious melody out of the instrument and suddenly wanted to force the biwa to remain at just that moment in its history when it had given him pleasure.

Just as the Greeks saw the mountains, forests, sea and rivers as inhabited by concrete beings, so nature in all of its manifestations possesses clear form, and the form of a work of art.

The Aegean Islands are within the sea and some bound it on its southern periphery, including Crete and Rhodes.

The Aegean Islands are found within its waters, with the following islands delimiting the sea on the south ( generally from west to east ): Kythera, Antikythera, Crete, Kasos, Karpathos and Rhodes.

In Italian, possibly following a tradition of antiquity, the Arcipelago ( from medieval Greek * ἀρχιπέλαγος ) was the proper name for the Aegean Sea and, later, usage shifted to refer to the Aegean Islands ( since the sea is remarkable for its large number of islands ).

In The Plague, a key description of Oran occurs early, when it is explained that the town is built in such a way that it " turns its back on the bay, with the result that it's impossible to see the sea, you always have to go to look for it.

In summer, the inhabitants lose touch with the sea altogether: " for all its nearness, the sea was out of bounds ; young limbs had no longer the run of its delights.

Snorri quotes his own source saying: " The sun will go black, earth sink in the sea, heaven be stripped of its bright stars ;...." ( Section 56 ).

There are for example fragments in ' Sapphic ' meter praising the Dioscuri, Hermes and the river Hebrus ( a river significant in Lesbian mythology since it was down its waters that the head of Orpheus was believed to have floated singing, eventually crossing the sea to Lesbos and ending up in a temple of Apollo, as a symbol of Lesbian supremacy in song ).

Perfumes can still be found with ambergris around the world, it is collected from remains found at sea and on beaches, although its precursor originates from the sperm whale, which is a vulnerable species.

Throughout the 5th century BC, Athens sought to consolidate its control over Thrace, which was strategically important because of its primary materials ( the gold and silver of the Pangaion hills and the dense forests essential for naval construction ), and the sea routes vital for Athens ' supply of grain from Scythia.

Because of its elevation and distance from the coast, the Australian Capital Territory experiences four distinct seasons, unlike many other Australian cities whose climates are moderated by the sea.

Antarctic sea ice cycles seasonally, in February – March the amount of sea ice is lowest, and in August – September the sea ice is at its greatest extent.

Some have understood Ammianus's testimony as a claim that at the time of Atlantis's actual sinking into the sea, its inhabitants fled to western Europe ; but Ammianus in fact says that “ the Drasidae ( Druids ) recall that a part of the population is indigenous but others also migrated in from islands and lands beyond the Rhine " ( Res Gestae 15. 9 ), an indication that the immigrants came to Gaul from the north ( Britain, the Netherlands or Germany ), not from a theorized location in the Atlantic Ocean to the south-west.

Queen Charlotte Sound defines its western side, while to the south lies Tory Channel, which is on the sea route from Wellington in the North Island to Picton.

The baidarka ( small skin boat ) was a small boat covered in sea lion skin that was used for hunting because of its sturdiness and maneuverability.

Tin has a similar effect and finds its use especially in sea water applications ( naval brasses ).

The ice reaches its maximum extent in February or March ; typical ice thickness in the northernmost areas in the Bothnian Bay, the northern basin of the Gulf of Bothnia, is about for landfast sea ice.