The Great Lakes are part of a waterway that extends from the Atlantic Ocean to the center of North America.

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The Hawaiian Islands were created in the middle of the Pacific Ocean as the plate moved slowly over a hot spot.

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However,piracy had decreased in the Straits of Malacca and the eastern Indian Ocean where it has traditionally been a problem.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

Recently, experts on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean were interested in a huge basking shark discovered in eastern Canada.

VOA: special.2009.06.16

The only detail is a small stream of water running through the middle of the square towards the Pacific Ocean.

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Kahn was very careful to make sure they all received natural light and a view of the ocean.

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

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Continuing disasters in the Indian Ocean made Indonesia decide it must have a warning system of its own.

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Maya Lin worked with ocean scientists to develop a three dimensional image of this part of the ocean.

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The adult Galapagos tortoise clearly is too big for a trip hundreds of kilometers across the ocean.

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In a striking closing scene, the ocean expert Sylvia Earle talks about the importance of protecting the beautiful world that lives under the sea.

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This is a safe and popular method of watching Kilauea's lava moving slowly toward the ocean.

VOA: special.2010.09.08

If a ship was sailing in the middle of the ocean, a navigator could make mistakes using dead reckoning and no harm would be done.

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It supervised creation of a system for nations on the edges of the Indian Ocean after the great earthquake and tsunami of two thousand four.

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It seemed to sail on waves of air, just like a sailboat on ocean waves.

VOA: special.2010.10.06

Last month, a team from the University of California at San Diego became the latest group to travel to the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch.

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The study follows a separate report by the United States Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Joint Institute for the Study of Atmosphere and Ocean.

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Somewhere on the endless expanse of the Pacific Ocean, Army Air Forces bombardier and Olympic runner Louie Zamperini lay across a small raft, drifting westward.

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I'm Steve Ember. Today,Mary Tillotson and I welcome you to a group of islands that extends into the Atlantic Ocean from the southern state of Florida.

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He said the researchers have established a baseline of what lives in the ocean.

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Mister Harrison had to develop a clock that was not affected by the movement of a ship on the ocean or changes in temperature or atmospheric pressure.

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And,we will tell about a lot of plastic waste in the Pacific Ocean.

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That is just under the wind-speed of a hurricane,a very severe ocean storm.

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The ocean floor is basalt rock, a mixture of silicon and magnesium.

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The earthquake displaces a large amount of water in the ocean.

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