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

VOA: special.2010.07.14

A group of small states on the coast of North Africa was seizing American ships and holding their crews hostage.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

The sub was brought back to the East Coast of the United States and became a floating museum in nineteen eighty-six.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

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

VOA: special.2009.12.04

"People of Western Europe: a landing was made this morning on the coast of France by troops of the Allied Expeditionary Force."

VOA: special.2011.06.16

"People of Western Europe: A landing was made this morning on the coast of France by troops of the Allied Expeditionary Force.

VOA: special.2011.06.09

They were wrong. Instead,they sailed onto rocks near a small group of islands southwest of England's Atlantic coast.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

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

VOA: special.2009.10.30

A team of scientists used satellite information about a fishing area near the Mediterranean coast of Spain.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

But twenty years ago, in March of nineteen eighty-nine, the tanker ship Exxon Valdez created a huge oil spill along the Alaskan coast.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

It ended a 38 year occupation of the narrow strip along the Mediterranean coast in 2005.

VOA: special.2009.01.10

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

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

VOA: special.2009.09.10

It is a tragic love story about black Americans along the coast of South Carolina.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

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

VOA: special.2011.03.21

When the storm ended, the crew of the Flying Cloud could see the very southern coast of South America a place called Tierra del Fuego.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

When the storm ended, the crew of the Flying Cloud could see the very southern coast of South America -- a place called Tierra del Fuego.

VOA: special.2011.07.06

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

Miss Carson moved to a home on the coast of Maine.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

The coast of Nigeria has long been a high risk area.

VOA: special.2009.05.27