Some Vermentino vineyards, like those of Abbatucci in Corsica, even have great ocean views.
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The following morning, I was up early to take the most rugged stretch of the Great Ocean Road slowly.
And so we go forward together, with confidence, we'll know that while our countries may be separated by a great ocean, in the realm of the spirit we will always be neighbors and friends.
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He failed the 11-plus - something which still grates even today - and attended Ellesmere Port Secondary Modern before joining the Merchant Navy, where he worked as a ship's steward during the last days of the great ocean liners.
In the west of the city, Outer Sunset and Outer Richmond have great access to Ocean Beach, a wide sandy expanse on the Pacific Ocean.
Obama Administration officials today released the Final Recommendations of the Ocean Policy Task Force, which would establish a National Policy for the Stewardship of the Ocean, Coasts, and Great Lakes (National Policy) and create a National Ocean Council (NOC) to strengthen ocean governance and coordination.
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This was just the beginning of a discussion to ensure the future health of our ocean, coasts and Great Lakes.
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Storm surges have the potential to be dangerous because they involve a great upwelling of a stretch of ocean - intense low pressure at the heart of a storm literally tugs the sea surface above its normal level to create a massive bulge.
The key was not to try to dig a Suez-type of canal, a great sea-level trench from ocean to ocean, but to create a lock-and-lake canal, where the ships are lifted up by a series of locks to a man-made lake, and then they sail across that lake, and then they are set back down on the other side by another series of locks.
The President is committed to ensuring the health and productivity of ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes resources for the benefit of all Americans.
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Great white sharks are attracted to the warm ocean currents along Australia's southern coastline and are a constant concern for divers who work in the sea.
The observation takes account of new research that shows hammerhead and great white sharks patrol fixed routes in the ocean, gathering at hotspots to mate or feed.
This week, the National Ocean Council deputies met to move forward the implementation of the National Policy for the Stewardship of the Ocean, our Coasts, and Great Lakes.
WHITEHOUSE: Deputies Building on Great Momentum for Our Oceans
The Final Recommendations prioritize actions for the NOC to pursue, and call for a flexible framework for coastal and marine spatial planning to address conservation, economic activity, user conflict, and sustainable use of the ocean, our coasts and the Great Lakes.
WHITEHOUSE: Final Recommendations of the Ocean Policy Task Force Announced | The White House
The moon is of great interest because of hints that it may have a huge ocean of water beneath its surface.
And he describes the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an enormous expanse of the Pacific Ocean where currents concentrate the trash over a continent-sized area.
"The Maule earthquake will arguably become one of the, if not the most important, great earthquakes yet studied, " said Ben Brooks of the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at the University of Hawaii.
His one-and-a-half revolutions of the stormy southern ocean, before at last dropping anchor in Tahiti, is one of the great feats of singlehanded sailing.
It marks what some people consider the northern border of the Great Basin and sits upon the farthest shore of what author Stephen Trimble calls the Sagebrush Ocean.
En route to Australia, Plastiki will sail through the infamous North Pacific Gyre, now home to "The Great Garbage Patch, " named due to the high levels of waste that have been drawn there by ocean currents.
In December of 2010 Great Britain announced the largest marine protected reserve in the world, 55 islands scattered remotely in the British Indian Ocean Territory, and called the Chagos Archipelago.
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