The trench is an extremely deep hole on the floor of the Indian Ocean.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

They wanted to seize the territory and Fort Union in an effort to find paths to the Pacific Ocean and to the gold fields of Colorado.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

Sri Lanka is an island of twenty-one million people in the Indian Ocean.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

Mike Steele is an ocean expert at the University of Washington in Seattle.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

It would land in an area called the Ocean of Storms.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

The Okefenokee seems primeval. It was formed when waters from an ancient ocean receded and a mammoth sandbar blocked most of the water flow to the sea.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

President Mohamed Nasheed and 11 of his government ministers, plus the vice president and Cabinet secretary, donned scuba gear and plunged six meters below the shimmering turquoise surface of an Indian Ocean lagoon.

VOA: standard.2009.10.17

The bear he says brings that message home. "It gives people an opportunity to connect with literally the processes that are going on up on the sea ice of the Arctic Ocean around the North Pole which is melting,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.13

Alex Ocean, an elementary school teacher whose Port-au-Prince school is now closed because of the quake, says he hopes that aid distribution in the camp will become better organized and that there will be international help with reconstruction.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02