He started a textile business in that island nation in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Africa.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

At this time the Dutch are sending herrings, these long flat boats, herring ships are going all the way to Newfoundland in the seventeenth century,and Iceland, freezing off the coast of Iceland.

于此同时,荷兰人也还运输鲱鱼,这些运送鲱鱼的长板船,在十七世纪一路开往纽芬兰和冰岛等地区,并不停穿梭于被冰壳覆盖的海岸线上

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The famous Galapagos Islands, more than nine hundred kilometers off the coast of Ecuador, are also endangered.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

They say Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse is the only survivor of a hijacking attempt on an American ship off the coast of Somalia on April eighth.

VOA: special.2009.04.25

The organization says the waters off the coast of Somalia, including the Gulf of Aden, are the most dangerous in the world for international shipping.

VOA: special.2009.04.25

Another area of increasing danger is off the coast of Peru in the Pacific Ocean.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

It was finally sunk in a battle with the Kearsarge off the coast of France.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

And scientists had not expected such a large earthquake happening off the coast of Japan.

VOA: special.2011.03.21

But it was on the Galapagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador that Darwin found creatures that made him wonder about how species develop and change.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

The first was a huge oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara,California.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

The album was named for a small island off the coast of Massachusetts.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

Cuba is just one hundred fifty kilometers off the coast of Florida.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

Many battles took place just off the coast of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

It sank in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Florida.

VOA: special.2010.03.06

Occidental Petroleum operated the structure off the coast of Scotland.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

U.S.prosecutors say Muse is the sole survivor of a hijacking attempt on a U.S.-flagged ship off the coast of Somalia on April 8.

VOA: standard.2009.04.22

A massive earthquake off the coast of Sumatra created a tsunami that swept across the Indian Ocean.

VOA: standard.2009.12.26

About 50 kilometers off the coast of Pensacola, crews spot something in the water.

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

The place is a fog-shrouded, desolate island off the coast of Massachusetts.

VOA: standard.2010.02.27

which looks at the killing of dolphins off the coast of Japan.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

Off the coast of Louisiana, thick patches of goopy oil.

VOA: standard.2010.06.08

In the first of the two tragic events, survivors report the boat capsized early Saturday night when the smugglers began to push passengers over board into the waters off the coast of Yemen.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

In recent years, a shining city grew in the desert of Dubai on and even off -- the Gulf coast.

VOA: special.2009.12.04

Today we tell about a wave of crime taking place in the warm waters off the east coast of Africa.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

But already this year, pirates have carried out more than eighty-four attacks in the waters of the Gulf of Aden and off the Somali coast.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

Roanoke Island is off the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States, in North Carolina.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

Experts say it is the longest range of a pirate attack off the Somali coast yet.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

he's undergoing treatment." Piracy off the lawless Somali coast has plagued ships along the popular sea route that hooks around the Horn of Africa.

VOA: standard.2009.09.26

He tested the free-diving self-propelled submersible - one of only two in existence at the time - on increasingly deep dives off the California coast.

VOA: standard.2010.06.21

The U.S.Navy has a significant presence in the region, especially in the Gulf of Aden a busy commercial shipping lane off the northern coast of Somalia.

VOA: standard.2010.01.07