The drive, on the opposite bank of the river from the camp, took nearly two hours.

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Places along the Teign include the village of Shaldon, which lies on the opposite bank of the estuary to Teignmouth.

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On the opposite bank of the estuary, North East Lincolnshire Council is also trying to deal with problems caused by the caterpillars.

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You can see Margaret Island, Castle Hill, Gellert Hill and the great sprawl of the Pest side of town on the opposite bank.

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Nearby, a DynCorp crew had opened full automatic fire on a group of gunmen who had moved from deeper in the orchard to the treeline on the opposite bank and were shooting at us.

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Positioned at Pudong's tip, the Oriental Pearl Tower was a cartoonish totem for China's race into modernity and an emphatic counterpoint to the Bund, a strip of colonial-era buildings on the opposite Puxi bank of the Huangpu River.

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On the other, the broad St Lawrence River is a steely grey-blue, its opposite bank a distant misty outline.

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