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Alfred Bulltop Stormalong

Among other things, the ship was said to have drilled the course of the Panama Canal by slamming into the Panamanian coast, and to have gotten stuck in the English Channel, which required the crew to grease the ship's hull with soap.

Alvania beanii

This species is distributed in European waters, from the North Coast of Norway and the North East Atlantic Ocean down to the Canary Islands.

Anna's Hummingbird

Anna's Hummingbirds are found along the western coast of North America, from southern Canada to northern Baja California, and inland to southern Arizona.

Antedon mediterranea

Antedon mediterranea is found in the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas and westward to the south coast of Spain and Cape St. Vincent.

Chekiang Province, Republic of China

After the Chinese Civil War, the Kuomintang-led Republic of China government lost its control in Mainland China and only held several east coast islands off Mainland Chekiang Province, including Tachen, Ichiangshan (Yikiangshan), Pishan, Taumenshan, Yüshan and Nanki.

CKSJ-FM

Specialty programs airing on the station include The 70's with Charlie Tuna, and Cool Jazz on the Coast hosted by Bill Sharpe.

Clash of the Codes

Steve Gurney: Steve Gurney is a New Zealand multisport and triathlon athlete famous for winning the "Coast to Coast" event a record 9 times.

Columbia Bar

The Columbia Bar is part of a set of major marine coastal hazards along the Pacific Northwest coast, including Cape Flattery at the northwest tip of the Olympic Peninsula and Cape Scott, which is at the north tip of Vancouver Island.

Concordia-class cruise ship

Costa Concordia capsized on January 13, 2012, after running aground shortly off the coast of Tuscany.

Cranbury, New Jersey

Jan Morris (born 1926), Welsh travel writer and historian, lived in Cranbury for several months in the 1950s whose impressions of the town are recorded in the book Coast to Coast: A Journey Across 1950s America.

Dimension Costeña

Dimensión Costeña is a Nicaraguan group that came together in the Caribbean coast of the country in Bluefields.

Dorothy C. Stratton

She is the namesake of the Coast Guard's third National Security Cutter, the USCGC Stratton (WMSL-752).

East of Samarinda

Fourteen of the short stories are set in Dutch East Borneo, two in British North Borneo, two in New Guinea, two in the South Seas (South China Sea, East China Sea and Southern Pacific Ocean) and one off the coast of the Unfederated Malay States.

Electoral district of Mermaid Beach

A compact urban, coastal electorate, Mermaid Beach includes the Gold Coast suburbs of Mermaid Beach, Mermaid Waters, Broadbeach Waters, Merrimac, Florida Keys, Miami Keys and parts of Robina.

Eulophia petersii

It is found in arid environments in the Northern Frontier Province, Kenya, the eastern coast of Africa and the former Transvaal region of South Africa.

Exercise Pitch Black

Although the 2000, 2004 and 2006 exercises were held in the Northern Territory, the 2002 exercise was scaled down and held at RAAF Bases Amberley and Williamtown, on the Australian east coast.

Exeter, Pennsylvania

In the 1830s the region entered a boom period and began shipping coal by the Pennsylvania Canal, and by the 1840s even down the Lehigh Canal to Allentown, Philadelphia, Trenton, Wilmington, New York City, and other east coast cities and ports via the connecting engineering works of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company such as the upper Lehigh Canal, the Ashley Planes and the early Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad, along with other railroads that flocked to or were born in the area.

Fiesa

Fiesa, Portorož, a street in the settlement of Portorož on the Adriatic coast in southwestern Slovenia

GoldLinQ

Services will be operated by KDR Gold Coast, a joint venture between Keolis and Downer Rail.

Grevillea aquifolium

In Victoria the species is found in the Grampians region and northwards to the Little Desert as well as near the south coast at Kentbruck Heath near Portland.

Hannibal Gamon

Gamon was instituted to the rectory of Mawgan-in-Pyder, on the north coast of Cornwall, on 11 February 1619, on presentation of Elizabeth Peter, the patroness for that turn, on the assignment of Sir John Arundell, knight, the owner of the advowson.

Human trafficking in Benin

Gendarmes in the village of Porga arrested suspected traffickers trying to cross the Benin-Burkina Faso border en route to Ivory Coast with five children in April 2009, and delivered them to the court at Natitingou.

Ibn Khordadbeh

Along with maps, the book also includes descriptions of the land, people and culture of the Southern Asian coast as far as Brahamputra, The Andaman Islands, peninsular Malaysia and Java.

Indian Trade

Other products desired by the Europeans produced other components of the Indian Trade, including the deerskin trade in the what is now the east coast of the United States, and the Pemmican and buffalo skin and meat trade on the Great Plains.

Japanese cruiser Niitaka

On 26 August 1922, Niitaka anchored near the mouth of a river in what is now part of the Ust-Bolsheretsky District on the southern coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, while a party of 15 led by Lieutenant Shigetada Gunji went ashore.

Japanese submarine I-26

In the evening of 20 June 1942, while patrolling two miles off the coast of British Columbia, I-26 surfaced and shelled the lighthouse and radio-direction-finding (RDF) installation at Estevan Point.

La Conchiglia

The movie was filmed in and features the local residents of Gondershe, a small town on the coast of southern Somalia.

Lempa

Lempa, Cyprus, village near Paphos District capital on island's southwestern coast; sometimes written as Lemba; located on top of escarpment overlooking Mediterranean Sea in one of Cyprus' most fertile as well as ancient regions; settled in Chalcolithic Period (c. 3800–2500 BC); since 1976 has been site of ongoing archaeological excavations

Makian

It lies near the southern end of a chain of volcanic islands off the western coast of Halmaherato (Halmahera region), to the south of Tidore and to the north of Kayoa and Bacan.

O. roseus

Odontamblyopus roseus, an eel goby species found in muddy-bottomed coastal waters along the west coast of India

Port Lihou Island

The Zenobia entered Endeavour Strait in January 1823, and discovered a shallow port on the south coast of Prince of Wales Island, subsequently named Port Lihou.

Regulation of ship pollution in the United States

The 110th Congress (2007-2009) had been considering ballast water discharge issues, specifically legislation to provide a uniform national approach for addressing aquatic nuisance species from ballast water under a program administered by the Coast Guard.

Richard Urquhart Goode

In 1889, he was appointed a geographer with the Survey and was placed in charge of surveys of the Pacific Coast States - California, Oregon, and Washington.

Rough cownose ray

It is also found off the coast of Ajman, United Arab Emirates, as mentioned in a picture of this species in Ajman Museum (which is located in the Emirate of Ajman) as follows: (غُرابي, Rhinopetra adspersa, Eagle ray).

Rougheye rockfish

Rougheye rockfish are deepwater fish, and exist between 31° and 66° latitude, in the North Pacific, and specifically along the coast of Japan to the Navarin Canyon in the Bering Sea, to the Aleutian Islands, all the way south to San Diego, California.

Scandinavian migration to the United Kingdom

These are thought to have begun with the sacking of the monastery at Lindisfarne off the Northumbrian coast as early as AD 793, followed by attacks on Jarrow (794) and the Columban church of Iona (976, 802, 806).

Senigallia

Senigallia, spread out along the coast at the mouth of the river Misa, was founded in the 4th century BC by the Gallic tribe of the Senones and became the first Roman colony on the Adriatic shore.

Shadow Divers

In 1991, a group of divers, including Richie Kohler and John Chatterton, set out on Seeker to explore an unknown object lying 230 feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean and discover an apparent historical impossibility: a World War II German U-Boat off the coast of New Jersey.

Squid Labs

In 2004, Colin Bulthaup, Dan Goldwater, Saul Griffith, and Eric Wilhelm moved from the East Coast to California to found the company known as Squid Labs.

Tamariu

The waters around this area are amongst the purest on the coast and there are many other beautiful beaches within easy reach including those at Llafranc, Aigua Blava, Fornells and Calella de Palafrugell.

The Chips

Although it did not chart, "Rubber Biscuit" became an instant east coast radio favourite, and saw its performers touring alongside The Dells, Cadillacs and Bo Diddley, but the momentum gained by their debut single was waning and the group broke up at the end of 1957.

The Fartz

The original idea was that the Fartz would simply change their name to 10 Minute Warning, but after one west coast tour with the Dead Kennedys, Blaine decided to quit and was replaced on vocals by Steve Swad (formerly of The Swads).

Thérèse Bermingham

In 2007, Bermingham attended the 21st World Scout Jamboree and joined 350 young people-a boy and a girl from almost every country-for a sunrise ceremony at Brownsea Island, off the coast of Dorset to mark the centenary of Scouting.

Umm Suqeim

Emirates International School and Suqeim Public Park are located in Umm Suqeim 2, while Jumeirah Beach Hotel, Burj Al Arab and Wild Wadi Water Park are located in Umm Suqeim 3, along the sub-community's Jumeirah Beach coast.

Vickers Vulcan

# G-EBEM; Type 61 - Delivered to Douglas Vickers MP in September 1922, competed in King's Cup Air Race in September 1922, taking 7th place, disappeared off the coast of Italy in May 1926.

Vitis amurensis

Along the coast of the Sea of Japan to the north it reaches the mouth of the Muli river, and the Amur region to the west - to the river Zeya.

William Hovell

Hovell explored and reported on the land surrounding Western Port and to the north of it, and near the coast to the east at Cape Paterson he discovered "great quantities of very fine coal".

Yaka, Isparta

The name of the town suggests that these people may be of Yaka tribe from Mangyshlak Peninsula at the east coast of Caspian Sea, now in Kazakhstan.

Yamada Nagamasa

Stories of Yamada burying his treasure on the east coast of Australia (and in particular, Magnetic Island off Townsville) persist but it is highly unlikely that Yamada would have ventured into that area as there were no trade routes in this region and the only ships to venture to this region were the ones blown off course during the summer storms.

Yorick Blumenfeld

They founded Philia, an international community near the town of Nelson, on the northern coast of New Zealand’s south island.


see also

CHML

Although CHML has carried American syndicated programming such as Coast to Coast AM, Dr. Joy Browne and The Jim Rome Show in the past, as of 2012 CHML's schedule only includes Coast to Coast AM.

Morgus the Magnificent

Dr. Morgus was an influence on Coast to Coast AM's George Noory as a boy.