• On the coast of Normandy overlooking the English Channel, sits the nuclear power plant at Flamanville.

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  • Right there on the coast of Tomales Bay it's the most refreshing thing.

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  • In 1502, Portuguese navigators landed at a port on the coast of South America and named it Rio de Janeiro (River of January).

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  • Another renewable energy producer, Pacific Hydro, is building an even bigger farm at Portland, on the coast of the southern Australian state of Victoria.

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  • The decision to resume the Nautile's operation came as fresh incidences of pollution were reported on the coast of the French region of Brittany.

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  • The RNLI says a wet summer has led to a small drop in the number of lifeboat crews called out on the coast of Wales.

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  • Spain's northwest coast appears to be back to normal, but environmentalists say there's still lasting damage from that huge spill on the Coast of Death.

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  • And in the autumn of 2004 it was observed to be amassing in very large numbers on the coast of Belgium, so it clearly flew over.

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  • One example is the analysis of fish prices on the coast of Kerala, in southern India, carried out in 2007 by Robert Jensen, an economist at Harvard University.

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  • The Saints will play the first, home leg at Newtown's Latham Park, with the return in Ventspils, a city in north-western Latvia on the coast of the Baltic Sea.

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  • It has been lying on its side off the island of Giglio, on the coast of Tuscany, since it capsized a year ago with the loss of more than 30 lives.

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  • "So we have a lot of opportunity for recreational facilities as well as providing a core business center and a good place to live right on the coast of Lagos, " says Frame.

    CNN: Lagos of the future: Megacity's ambitious plans

  • In April 2002 a dead minke whale was washed up on the coast of Normandy, France, with nearly a kilogram of plastic bags in her stomach that she had mistaken for food.

    CNN: Fighting the tide of plastic bags in a world awash with waste

  • Southcorp has already invested with a U.S. partner in the Seven Peaks winery in Edna Valley on the coast of central California and is starting a 200-hectare vineyard of its own not far away.

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  • It is believed to have been found by an African slave on the coast of the isle of Santa Margarita in the Gulf of Panama in the mid-16th Century or as early as the 15th Century.

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  • The Graf Goetzen was then transported in parts, in 500 crates, from Hamburg to Dar es Salaam on the coast of East Africa - and from there over mountains to Lake Tanganyika where Germany, Britain and Belgium were all engaged in colonial jostling.

    BBC: Hope yet for African Queen gunboat on Lake Tanganyika

  • At the Gamba protected-area complex, on the coast of Gabon, patrolling rangers make daily logs of deposits of flotsam from the industrial world that has arrived on their remote Atlantic beaches at the same time as they record the comings and goings of the local leatherback turtles.

    ECONOMIST: A new device puts an old skill to work

  • His final years were marred by a succession of devastating accidents an explosion at BP's Texas City refinery in 2005 that killed 15 workers and injured 170 others, and an oil spill a year later that dumped 4, 800 barrels of oil at Prudhoe Bay, on the coast of Alaska.

    ECONOMIST: Schumpeter

  • The trail begins with a wicked climb up 650 steps carved into a hillside and ends a brutal (and lovely) seven miles later (and after a 2, 200-foot climb and descent) on the other side of Mount Tamalpais, at the tiny town of Stinson Beach on the coast of the Pacific Ocean.

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  • They seem to like Chen's declaration that Taipei may support Beijing's bid to host the 2008 Olympic Games. (Lee's government had opposed China's bid for this year's Games.) And on July 3, Xiamen Mayor Zhu Yayan invited his Kaohsiung counterpart, Frank Hsieh Chang-ting, to visit his city on the coast of Fujian province, opposite Taiwan.

    CNN: Did He Say 'One China'?

  • The Unha-3 rocket blasted off at around 10 AM local time from a space center in the village of Tongchang-ri on the west coast of the Korean Peninsula, flew over the East China Sea, the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa, and then past the Philippines.

    FORBES: North Korea Rockets To Orbit, Renews Concerns Of Global Threat

  • The tsunami that wrecked northern Japanese fishing villages and small cities also travelled across the Pacific and hit the Hawaiian islands, causing tens of millions of dollars worth of damage to boats, docks, beach homes and led to the closing of the famous Kona Village Resort, a picturesque minimalist string of high-end bungalows on the Kona coast of the Big Island of Hawaii.

    FORBES: After the Japan Earthquake/Tsunami: Hawaii -- the New Mid-Pacific Business Hub

  • The focus of the new Africa Boogaloo anthology shifts to Afro-Cuban music's impact on the western coast of the continent, in countries such as Senegal, Benin, Gambia, Congo and so on.

    NPR: 'Africa Boogaloo': An Intro To Afro-Latin Music

  • The tugs are expected to arrive on Saturday at the Village Bay inlet on the east coast of Hirta, the main island in the group, 50 miles west of the Outer Hebrides.

    BBC: Ship refloating plan launched

  • Throughout the Svalbard archipelago, polar bears are protected, but in the remote village of Ittoqqorrtoormiit on the east coast of Greenland, they are hunted for meat under license and within strict limits set out by the government.

    BBC: Life in the fragile, frozen Arctic

  • In 2004 petitioner worked on the east coast of the United States from Maine through Virginia, and in 2005 he worked on the east coast from New Hampshire through Florida.

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  • Among other issues, more economists now believe the Obama administration should approve the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would transport oil from Canada to refineries on the Gulf Coast of the U.S. The percentage supporting such a plan grew to 78 percent in the latest poll, up from 69 percent previously.

    NPR: Economists Were Opposed To Automatic Spending Cuts

  • The prison complex lies on a US military base occupying a small strip of land on the southern coast of Cuba.

    BBC: Inside Guantanamo Bay

  • Neruda was buried next to his wife Matilde Urrutia in the garden of their home on the Pacific coast of Chile in Isla Negra, some 120km (75 miles) west of Santiago.

    BBC: Pablo Neruda: Chile exhumes poet's body in murder probe

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