The ship, named the Schiehallion after a mountain on the Scottish coast, is the only visible sign of what lies 365 meters below:a 500-million-barrel oilfield that BP Amoco has discovered and developed.
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) rebels were trying to retake a strategic mountain area near the Caribbean coast when they were hit.
Even if others are keen on a field, however huge, in pristine jungle nearly 500 kilometres and a mountain range from the populated coast, new bids would take time: Perupetro, the state oil firm, says it would take the rest of 1998 to prepare bidding specifications, under the government's new plan to divide the deal into three: operation of the field, the main pipelines, and distribution.
Most of the increase since the last 2009 study is the result of re-evaluating shale gas plays along the Gulf Coast Mid-Continent and Rocky Mountain areas.
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Even against this backdrop, the Alvord is extraordinarily dry, sitting in a triple rain shadow created by the Coast Range, the Cascades and Steens Mountain.
Now whether it's some rocky island off the Canadian coast or a skewer summit of a Canadian mountain I don't know and that's what they're talking about behind the scenes.
On the opposite coast, Los Angeles has opted to construct a garbage mountain 500 feet high, taller than most of the city's high-rises.
Today, I designated Fort Ord as a National Monument that will not only protect one of the crown jewels of California's coast a world class destination for hikers, mountain bikers, and outdoor enthusiasts but also honor the heroism and dedication of men and women who served our Nation during the major conflicts of the 20th century.
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Working in Google's Mountain View, Calif. headquarters means Fredinburg is no stranger to West Coast quakes, but when your lodging in Nepal consists of seismically unsound trading posts built out of stones, natural disasters are a whole other story.
Dagestan adjoins Chechnya, lies at the eastern extremity of the Caucasus mountain range, and the Dagestani capital, Makhachkala, sits on the Caspian coast.
Wednesday's recall covers eggs branded as Albertsons, Farm Fresh, James Farms, Glenview, Mountain Dairy, Ralph's, Boomsma, Lund, Kemps and Pacific Coast and are marked with a three-digit code ranging from 136 to 229 and plant numbers1720 and 1942, the company said.
Around the northern coast there are miles of quiet, narrow roads where cyclists can steep themselves in mountain and moorland scenery, and there is excellent wild camping just about everywhere.
Similarly, with six teams on the west coast, the Seattle Mariners seem to be the logical choice to play in the Mountain Division, leaving the five California clubs together.
Located in the far north of the Scottish Highlands, the area encompasses around 2000 sq km of mountain, peatland, beach, forest and coastline across west Sutherland and on to the north coast.
On the Korean peninsula's east coast, hundreds of South Koreans were peacefully disembarking from their cruise ship to admire Diamond Mountain, just across the Demilitarized Zone in North Korea.
Such is the variety of shapes and types, present through at least four mountain building periods, that visitors and locals alike cannot but marvel at the magnificient colours and structures visible around the coast of the Global Geopark.
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