Edward Teach ( c. 1680 – 22 November 1718 ), better known as Blackbeard, was a notorious English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of the American colonies.

This is significant as Africans came from a vast geographic region, the West African coastline stretching from Senegal to Angola and in some cases from the south east coast such as Mozambique.

Both the terms coast and coastal are often used to describe a geographic location or region ; for example, New Zealand's West Coast, or the East and West Coasts of the United States.

Conversely, the islands do not receive the upwellings ( cold streams ) that affect the West African coast, so the air temperature is cooler than in Senegal, but the sea is actually warmer, because the orographic relief of some islands, as Sao Miguel with steep mountains, cover it with rich woods and luxuriant vegetation where the dense moisture condense and soak the plants, rocks, soil, logs, moss etc.

The highest mountains of the West Indies are in this range: Pico Duarte, 3, 098 m, and others above 3, 000 m. Near the center of the island, this range turns southward and is called Sierra de Ocoa, finishing near the city of Azua de Compostela, on the Caribbean coast.

He was the first European known to sight and enter the Congo River and to explore the West African coast between Cape St. Catherine and Cape Cross, almost from the equator to Walvis Bay in Namibia.

Emsworth is a large village the south coast of England, situated on the Hampshire side of the border between Hampshire and West Sussex.

The move towards shooting more films on the West coast around Los Angeles continued during World War I, until the bulk of American production was carried out there.

In 1749 the city of Port-au-Prince was established on the West coast, which in 1770 took over as the capital of the colony from Cap-Français, however that same year the 1770 Port-au-Prince earthquake and tsunami destroyed the city killing 200 people immediately, and 30, 000 later from famine and disease brought on by the natural disaster.

They sailed in three divisions, and probably landed at Richborough in Kent, although some suggest that at least part of the invasion force landed on the south coast, in the Fishbourne area of West Sussex.

His objectives included finding the source of the West African gold trade and the legendary Christian kingdom of Prester John, and stopping the pirate attacks on the Portuguese coast.

Four of the islands are shared with other nations: Borneo is shared with Malaysia and Brunei, Sebatik, located eastern coast of Kalimantan, shared with Malaysia, Timor is shared with East Timor, and the newly divided provinces of Papua and West Papua share the island of New Guinea with Papua New Guinea.

He went to the United States following the American Revolutionary War and built a fur-trading empire that extended to the Great Lakes region and Canada, and later expanded into the American West and Pacific coast.

* 1826 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales, is opened.

Newton returned to Liverpool, England and, partly due to the influence of his father's friend Joseph Manesty, obtained a position as first mate aboard the slave ship Brownlow, bound for the West Indies via the coast of Guinea.

In 1739, he entered the Navy as a surgeon's mate, serving in the Mediterranean, off the coast of West Africa and in the West Indies.

Up until 1835, five more colonies were started by American Societies other than the ACS, and one by the U. S. government, all on the same West African coast.

In late 1942, a German U-boat sank the British troopship Laconia carrying 1, 800 Italian POWs off the coast of West Africa.

At 22: 00 on 12 September 1942, U-156 was patrolling off the coast of West Africa midway between Liberia and Ascension Island.

According to John Iliffe, " The worst crises were in the 1680s, when famine extended from the Senegambian coast to the Upper Nile and ' many sold themselves for slaves, only to get a sustenance ', and especially in 1738 – 56, when West Africa's greatest recorded subsistence crisis, due to drought and locusts, reportedly killed half the population of Timbuktu.

French Sudan was administered as part of the Federation of French West Africa and supplied labor to France ’ s colonies on the coast of West Africa.

The coast of Georgia is usually the northernmost range of the West Indian manatees because their low metabolic rate does not protect them in cold water.

Saltwater fish eaten by the American Indians were cod, lemon sole, flounder, herring, halibut, sturgeon, smelt, drum on the East Coast, and olachen and salmon on the West Coast.

Fish – yellowtail, marlin, skipjack tuna, salmon, trout, and mackerel – is mainly used in Japan, while meat – chicken, pork, lamb and beef – is more often used in the West.

Bringing together the wisdom of the elders with the culinary artistry of the West Coast ’ s unique tastes, Čamus explores the art of how to butterfly a salmon and how to can fish, as well as delectable recipes for marinated seaweed, steam pit cooking, and Nuu-chah-nulth upskwee.

The West Dart is notable ground for salmon spawning redds.

This view shows a squared-rigged ' West Country ' barge, fishermen netting for salmon and erosion of the riverbank.

Unlike many West Country rivers there are no seatrout, but there is a run of Atlantic salmon.

Construction of a fish ladder at the north end of the West Seattle Golf Course will allow spawning salmon up along the fairways.

The West Branch is known as a world class landlocked salmon river, while the East Branch is known for its smallmouth bass fishery.

Typically, Atlantic salmon migrate from their home streams to an area on the continental plate off West Greenland.

On the West Coast of Northern America, aquaculturists have taken great care to ensure the non-native salmon cannot escape from their open-net pens, and escape is no longer considered a major concern.

In New England, many efforts are underway to restore salmon to the region by knocking down obsolete dams and updating others with fish ladders and other techniques that have proven effective in the West with Pacific salmon.

* Bristol Bay sockeye salmon inriver test fishing, 2004 / by Frederick W. West.

It is not known whether the Infectious salmon anemia virus can reproduce itself in the sea louse, although this is a possibility as viruses often depend on secondary vectors for transmission like the Arboviruses such as dengue fever, West Nile virus, or African swine fever virus.

She lists as evidence the decline of salmon on the West Coast as proof of global warming.

These dialects have roots in 17th-century English and African languages ; unlike most native varieties of English, West Indian dialects often tend to be syllable-timed rather than stress-timed.

West African English tends to be syllable-timed, and its phoneme inventory is much simpler than that of Received Pronunciation ; this sometimes affects mutual intelligibility with native varieties of English.

Even Grimm himself did not at first intend to include all the languages in his Grammar, but he soon found that Old High German postulated Gothic, and that the later stages of German could not be understood without the help of other West Germanic varieties including English, and that the rich literature of Scandinavia could not be ignored either.

Rice noodles are called kuai tiao in Thailand and comes in three varieties: sen yai are wide flat noodles, sen lek are thin flat rice noodles, and sen mi ( also known as rice vermicelli in the West ) is round and thin.

North American English is a collective term for the dialects of the United States and Canada ; it does not include the varieties of Caribbean English spoken in the West Indies.

West End Games ' roleplaying sourcebooks introduce varieties that include the TIE / fc fire-control support ship, the TIE / gt ground-attack fighter, the TIE / rc reconnaissance vessel, and the TIE scout.

Several varieties of raisins are produced in Asia and, in the West, are only available at ethnic specialty grocers.

It is common to consider the Limburgish varieties as belonging to the Low Franconian languages ; in the past, however, all these Limburgish dialects were sometimes seen as West Central German, part of High German.

This suffix is most likely derived from West Slavic varieties once spoken in the area ( cf.

Fynbos – which grows in a 100-to-200-km-wide coastal belt stretching from Clanwilliam on the West coast to Port Elizabeth on the Southeast coast – forms part of the Cape floral kingdom, where it accounts for half of the surface area and 80 % of the plant varieties.

The tamarinds of Asia have longer pods containing six to 12 seeds, whereas African and West Indian varieties have short pods containing one to six seeds.

* Tuareg Berbers, and some northern Berbers, Sahrawi, Songhai, Wodaabe, Fulani, and Hausa peoples of North and West Africa wear some varieties of turbans.

In West Bengal too two varieties exist-khaja kathal & moja kathal.

It is a sociolinguistic language, consisting of four varieties: Borana – Arsi – Guji Oromo, Eastern Oromo ( also called Qottu ), Orma, and West Central Oromo.

As such, rather than being a pidgin wholly distinct from English, it is a range of varieties that extend from the highly pidginized to one that shows many similarities to English as spoken elsewhere in West Africa.

The Falkland Islands Wolf existed on both West and East Falkland, but Charles Darwin was uncertain if they were differentiated varieties.

They are found close to shore along the coast of West Africa ( Atlantic species / variety ) and right along the coast of the Indian Ocean from South Africa to Australia ( Indo-Pacific species / varieties ).

As opposed to other Slavic dialect subgroups, West South Slavic idioms have largely retained the Proto-Slavic system of free and mobile tonal accent ( including the dialect used for basis of codification of modern standard Slovene, as well as Neoštokavian used for the basis of standard varieties of Serbo-Croatian: Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian ), though the discrepancy between codified norm and actually spoken speech may significantly vary.

The varieties known as Pomeranian () should not be confused with the West Slavic Pomeranian language ().

# A specific name of any West Germanic varieties that neither have taken part in the High German consonant shift nor classify as Low Franconian or Anglo-Frisian ; this is the scope discussed in this article.

# A broader term for the closely related, continental West Germanic language family unaffected by the High German consonant shift, nor classifying as Anglo-Frisian, and thus including Low Franconian varieties such as Dutch.

In other varieties of West Low German, spoken in the east of the Netherlands, diminutives occasionally use the umlaut in combination with the suffixes-gie ( n ):

In certain aspects of vocalization, however, Bermudian English is close to some versions of Caribbean English, and some would bracket all these varieties to the broad region of the " English-speaking West Indies ".

While other Chinese tend to speak the language varieties of the places in which they live ( the Chinese of Central Java speak High or Standard Javanese in daily conversation even among themselves ; in West Java, they tend to speak Sundanese ), in Surabaya younger ethnic Chinese people tend to speak pure Javanese ( Surabaya dialect ) and learn Mandarin in courses.

An example of the former is Afro-Celt Sound System, a band that combines Irish and West African traditions, the multiple varieties of Afro-funk played by the likes of Fela Kuti, or the combination of traditional Celtic and middle eastern melodies by the group Mithril.