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One day in 1819, 3,000 miles off the
coast
of Chile, in one of the most remote regions of the Pacific Ocean, 20 American sailors watched their ship flood with seawater.
Now the last option was the longest, and the most difficult: to sail 1,500 miles due south in hopes of reaching a certain band of winds that could eventually push them toward the
coast
of South America.
Herschel helped by making tidal observations off the
coast
of South Africa, and, as he complained to Whewell, he was knocked off the docks during a violent high tide for his trouble.
This is a long-liner, fishing around the southern
coast
of Africa.
On the
coast
of Northern Ireland, a vast plateau of basalt slabs and columns called the Giant’s Causeway stretches into the ocean.
According to legend, the giant Finn MacCool lived happily on the North Antrim
coast
with his wife Oonagh.
And so the Irish giant tossed enough boulders into the sea to create a bridge of stepping stones to the Scottish
coast.
What remains are two identical rock formations: one on the North Antrim
coast
of Ireland and one at Fingal’s Cave in Scotland, right across the sea.
Down the
coast
here in California, the redwood forest grows to 40 stories tall.
So I got in my car, and I drove three hours north along the coast, and the roads grew emptier and narrower, and then I turned onto an even narrower path, barely paved, that snaked for two miles up to the top of a mountain.
When the
coast
was clear, I emerged, crept into the classroom, and took from my teacher's desk the grade book.
(Aquatic noises) So this video was taken at Aquarius undersea laboratory four miles off the
coast
of Key Largo, about 60 feet below the surface.
Pretty much around the same time, I discovered that there were 544 seafarers being held hostage on ships, often anchored just off the Somali
coast
in plain sight.
A couple of years ago, I took a passage on the Maersk Kendal, a mid-sized container ship carrying nearly 7,000 boxes, and I departed from Felixstowe, on the south
coast
of England, and I ended up right here in Singapore five weeks later, considerably less jet-lagged than I am right now.
Eventually, Charles, the king of the Franks, negotiated peace with the Viking leader Rollo in 911, granting him a stretch of land along France’s northern
coast
that came to be known as Normandy.
That night, at midnight, a magnitude 9 earthquake hit off of the Pacific
coast
of Japan.
Now, imagine how useful this would be to people in
coast
guards who are trying to track and stop illegal fishing.
And so,
coast
guards could use that and go and find those illegal fishing vessels.
And
coast
to coast, all of the lunch ladies told me the same thing: "Thank you for making a superhero in our likeness."
Luther Castillo comes from San Pedro de Tocamacho on the Atlantic
coast
of Honduras.
One typical thing that happens is people will come from the highlands, where there are not many coconut trees, down to visit their relatives on the coast, where there are lots.
Our journey was, in fact, 69 marathons back to back in 105 days, an 1,800-mile round trip on foot from the
coast
of Antarctica to the South Pole and back again.
He had a big team using ponies, using dogs, using petrol-driven tractors, dropping multiple, pre-positioned depots of food and fuel through which Scott's final team of five would travel to the Pole, where they would turn around and ski back to the
coast
again on foot.
Unlike Scott's expedition, there were just two of us, and we set off from the
coast
of Antarctica in October last year, dragging everything ourselves, a process Scott called "man-hauling."
On the way back down to the coast, our crampons — they're the spikes on our boots that we have for traveling over this blue ice on the glacier — broke on the top of the Beardmore.
And less than five weeks ago, after 105 days, we crossed this oddly inauspicious finish line, the
coast
of Ross Island on the New Zealand side of Antarctica.
The closer I got to my finish line, that rubbly, rocky
coast
of Ross Island, the more I started to realize that the biggest lesson that this very long, very hard walk might be teaching me is that happiness is not a finish line, that for us humans, the perfection that so many of us seem to dream of might not ever be truly attainable, and that if we can't feel content here, today, now, on our journeys amidst the mess and the striving that we all inhabit, the open loops, the half-finished to-do lists, the could-do-better-next-times, then we might never feel it.
For the past two months, Norwegians have been watching a cruise ship's journey up the coast, and there's a lot of fog on that
coast.
Why stop at 436 when you can expand that to 8,040, minute by minute, and do the iconic journey in Norway, the coastal ship journey Hurtigruten from Bergen to Kirkenes, almost 3,000 kilometers, covering most of our
coast.
It has 120-year-old, very interesting history, and literally takes part in life and death along the
coast.
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