They told the commander they thought they were west of a small island near the coast of northwestern France.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

Alaska is on the border of northwestern Canada, far enough north that part of it is within the Arctic Circle.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

Two thousand eight hundred ninety-five centimeters of snow fell at the Mount Baker Ski area in the northwestern state of Washington.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

Two years ago, scientists discovered more than one hundred corals in the Great Barrier Reef and on a reef near northwestern Australia.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

The first park to charge a visitor fee was Mount Rainier in the northwestern state of Washington in nineteen hundred and eight.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

Harris Perlman is an associate professor at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Illinois.

VOA: special.2010.03.16

He was born Harry Lillis Crosby in nineteen hundred and three in the northwestern city of Tacoma,Washington.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

The Northwestern University researcher took part in a study that found a way to turn off the immune system in mice with arthritis.

VOA: special.2010.03.16

And in the northwestern state of Punjab, that is true for almost forty percent of women.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

Her parents refused. Grace Bumbry went on to study music at Boston University and Northwestern University.

VOA: special.2009.11.30

They worked on the project in the Karagwe area, in the northwestern part of the country.

VOA: special.2009.07.27

Barbara Fick is an extension agent at Oregon State University in the northwestern United States.

VOA: special.2011.06.28

Dr. Michael Fleming is a researcher at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

VOA: special.2011.07.29

The suspect was born in a tiny northwestern village to an upper-middle class family.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

Lake Champlain and the fertile Champlain Valley are in the northwestern part of Vermont.

VOA: special.2010.10.25

In Islamabad,the Foreign Ministry is defending a new peace agreement in northwestern Pakistan.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

Evergreen State is a public four-year college in the northwestern city of Olympia,Washington.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

Many languages are also disappearing from the northwestern part of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

But this is not the case in the northwestern state of Alaska.

VOA: special.2010.03.15

Nirvana began in nineteen eighty-seven in the northwestern state of Washington.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

Harris Perlman is a medical researcher at Northwestern University in Illinois.

VOA: special.2010.05.19

Northwestern University student Edward Spencer was another hero.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

Many of the World Cup items are currently on display in the lobby of the library on the campus of Northwestern.

VOA: standard.2010.07.10

The June 9 bombing of the Pearl Continental Hotel in the northwestern Pakistan city of Peshawar claimed at least nine lives.

VOA: standard.2009.06.19

And on Friday, a suicide car bomb in the northwestern city of Peshawar left more than 50 people dead.

VOA: standard.2009.10.11

Meanwhile,the Pakistani military has reported more gains against Taliban militants in the ongoing offensive in and round the northwestern Swat Valley.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

The man charged with numerous counts of terrorism was born in this tiny northwestern village known as Mohib Banda.

VOA: standard.2010.05.06

The Taliban advances in the northwestern districts early this year had raised questions about Pakistan's ability to rein in extremist forces.

VOA: standard.2009.07.26

David Easterbrook is curator of the "Africa Responds to Obama" collection at the Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern University.

VOA: standard.2010.07.10