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The sea was named after the Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman, the first recorded European to encounter New Zealand and Tasmania.
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Underneath him the sea was a dark and muddied gray.
When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.
Our lifeboat was filling rapidly and despite what I had heard of the inhabitants of Eromonga, I was glad to see a long and graceful outrigger manned by three bronzed girls glide out of a lagoon into the open sea and toward our craft.
Potemkin's Army of Ekaterinoslav, totaling, it was claimed, 40,000 regular troops and 6,000 irregulars of the Cossack Corps, had invested Islam's principal stronghold on the north shore of the Black Sea, the fortress town of Oczakov, and was preparing to test the Turk by land and sea.
Hino was the fourth son of an elderly farmer who lived on the coast, in Chiba, and divided his life between the land and the sea, supplementing the marginal livelihood on his small rented farm with seasonal employment on a fishing boat.
It was one with the desolate rocks and the alien water on those days when she hated the sea.
The vacation traffic was becoming heavier as they approached the sea.
To starboard was a cape a thousand feet high, patched with ice and snow, populated by thousands of screaming sea birds.
Hudson pointed the Discovery down the east coast of the newly discovered sea ( now called Hudson Bay ), confident he was on his way to the warm waters of the Pacific.
The great `` sea to the westwards '' was a dead end.
Just as it was being hauled inboard, a sea hit the ship.
A visitor from a more peaceful country across the sea was taken to one of our amusement parks, and after he had seen it all, he said to a friend: `` You must be a very sad people ''.
It was paired with a Darius Milhaud opera, `` The Poor Sailor '', set to a libretto by Jean Cocteau, a kind of Grand Guignol by the sea, a sailor returns, unrecognized, and gets done in by his wife.
He was perhaps a trifle tipsy, having been long at sea where drinking is not permitted, and consequently out of practice ; ;
Next morning he tied a bunch of sea daisies with string and threw them across the V-shaped inlet to the rock where she was swimming around.
I was slowly swimming down to the bottom of the sea.
Mythographers agree that Artemis was born first and then assisted with the birth of Apollo, or that Artemis was born one day before Apollo, on the island of Ortygia and that she helped Leto cross the sea to Delos the next day to give birth to Apollo.
The name " Alaska " ( Аляска ) was already introduced in the Russian colonial period, when it was used only for the peninsula and is derived from the Aleut alaxsxaq, meaning " the mainland " or, more literally, " the object towards which the action of the sea is directed ".
The sea was traditionally known as Archipelago ( in Greek, Αρχιπέλαγος, meaning " chief sea "), but in English this word's meaning has changed to refer to the Aegean Islands and, generally, to any island group.
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It was said to have been named after the Greek town of Aegae, or after Aegea, a queen of the Amazons who died in the sea, or Aigaion, the " sea goat ", another name of Briareus, one of the archaic Hecatonchires, or, especially among the Athenians, Aegeus, the father of Theseus, who drowned himself in the sea when he thought his son had died.
While amber is not actually named, it is called the concreti maris purgamentum, " the leavings of the frozen sea " after the spring melt.
To punish the queen for her arrogance, Poseidon, brother to Zeus and god of the sea, sent a sea monster named Cetus to ravage the coast of Aethiopia including the kingdom of the vain queen.
It was from a hill on Arapawa Island in 1770 that Captain James Cook first saw the sea passage from the Pacific Ocean to the Tasman Sea, which was named Cook Strait.
An under sea water supply tunnel with a length of, named the Bosphorus Water Tunnel, was constructed in 2012 to transfer water from the Melen Creek in Düzce Province ( to the east of the Bosphorus strait, in northwestern Anatolia ) to the European side of Istanbul, from a distance of.
Appear mostly occupying favorable areas named geographically Umbrias, this is north hillsides or slopes of the mountainous areas that are oriented behind the sun, be cause the islands are in the northern hemisphere, between 600 and 1500 meters, thus benefiting from the humidity provided by the trade winds to form such a sea of clouds.
Christopher Columbus sighted the Cayman Islands on May 10, 1503 and named them Las Tortugas after the numerous sea turtles seen swimming in the surrounding waters.
** A sea area in the North Sea, referred to in shipping forecasts, named after the Firth of Forth
We learn in the former poem that his father came from Cyme in Aeolis ( on the coast of Asia Minor, a little south of the island Lesbos ), and crossed the sea to settle at a hamlet, near Thespiae in Boeotia, named Ascra, " a cursed place, cruel in winter, hard in summer, never pleasant " ( Works, l. 640 ).
Before he dies, Heracles throws Lichas into the sea, thinking he was the one who poisoned him ( according to several versions, Lichas turns to stone, becoming a rock standing in the sea, named for him ).
Although his crew forced him to turn back, he was pleased with the prospect of soon finding a sea route to India and named the tip as the Cape of Good Hope.
All have access to the sea and are named after the saints to whom their ancient parish churches are dedicated.
Lug had a horse named Aenbharr which could fare over both land and sea.
Some military roles are assigned to the civil police, such as border patrol, and border defence, which are the responsibility of a special police unit officially named " The Maritime and Heliport Police Division ", and which operates on land and at sea, using patrol boats and high-speed surveillance boats.
The Cretaceous sea reptile Mosasaur is named after the river Meuse.
King Aegeus, from his lookout on Cape Sounion, saw the black-sailed ship approach and, presuming his son dead, committed suicide by throwing himself into the sea that is since named after him.
The largest Mediterranean underwater sea cave yet found, lying northwest of Sardinia, was named by the discoverers, the Nereo Cave, in honor of this mythological figure.
Because of the great diversity of forms found in this group, the Proteobacteria are named after Proteus, a Greek god of the sea, capable of assuming many different shapes, and it is therefore not named after the genus Proteus.
It gives its name to one of the sea areas named in the shipping forecast provided by the British Meteorological Office.
The woman then told him that she was a daughter of Triton named Kalliste, and that when he threw the dirt into the sea it would grow into an island for his descendants to live on.
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Rank after rank of them came down the road, and the faces were all the same, and they walked in a sea of dust.
Once, after the Discovery lay for a week in rough weather, Hudson ordered the anchor raised before the sea had calmed.
The present coastal arrangement appeared c. 7000 BC, with post-ice age sea levels continuing to rise for another 3, 000 years after that.
By the late 5th century BC, philosophers might separate Aphrodite into two separate goddesses, not individuated in cult: Aphrodite Ourania, born from the sea foam after Cronus castrated Uranus, and Aphrodite Pandemos, the common Aphrodite " of all the folk ," born from Zeus and Dione.
In the seventh week after Easter May 878, around Whitsuntide, Alfred rode to ‘ Egbert's Stone ’ east of Selwood, where he was met by " all the people of Somerset and of Wiltshire and of that part of Hampshire which is on this side of the sea is, west of Southampton Water, and they rejoiced to see him ".
Several changes were made in regard to the myth, most notably that Perseus did not marry Andromeda after he rescued her from the sea monster.
In the Middle Ages the sea was known by variety of names, the name Baltic Sea started to dominate only after 16th century.
Much of modern Finland is former seabed or archipelago: illustrated are sea levels immediately after the last ice age.
Those on the north and east sides are 2. 1 to 3 m high, and those on the west and south sides 1. 2 m The reef is completely covered by the sea from 3 hours before to 3 hours after high tide.
:" From Skåne ( Sconia ) of the Danes one reaches Sigtuna ( Sictonam ) or Birka after five days at sea, for they are indeed alike.
As they were sent by sea mail, they would go on sale some weeks after the date shown on the cover.
* A wave-cut platform forms after erosion and retreat of a sea cliff has been occurring for a long time.
In 1988, five Mexican fishermen became lost at sea after a storm that occurred during their trip along the coast of Costa Rica.
Assume that t seconds after his jump, his height above sea level in meters is given by.
However, g ( 10 ) is 3020 meters above sea level, the height of the skydiver ten seconds after his jump.
Charybdis was very loyal to her father in his endless feud with Zeus ; it was she who rode the hungry tides after Poseidon had stirred up a storm, and led them onto the beaches, gobbling up whole villages, submerging fields, drowning forests, claiming them for the sea.
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