Mass beachings have been associated with active sonar
have occurred in Madeira (2000), Greece (1996), the U.S. Virgin Islands (1998, 1999), the Canary Islands (1985, 1988, 1989, 2002), and, northwest coast of the United States (2003).update: court blocks sonar 7/6/06
All penguin species are restricted to the Southern Hemisphere, but the greatest numerical concentrations are on Antarctic coasts and sub-Antarctic islands.
Côte d'Ivoire produces about 40% of the world's cocoa, more than any other country.
The first transcontinental phone call was made in 1915, when Alexander Graham Bell in New York called Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
The tallest known tree in the world is a coast redwood in California named Hyperion, which stands about 380 feet tall.
Florida's Space Coast, home to Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral, is where most US crewed space missions have launched.
Limoncello comes from Italy's Amalfi Coast.
Keiko, the orca from "Free Willy," lived at the Oregon Coast Aquarium before being released near Iceland.
Sea star wasting disease, which began in 2013, killed billions of sea stars along the Pacific coast.
Magic: The Gathering is made by Wizards of the Coast, which Hasbro bought in 1999.
The first transcontinental phone call was made in 1915, when Bell in New York called his old assistant Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
Haystack Rock at Cannon Beach is a sea stack about 235 feet tall.
The Oregon Dunes stretch about 40 miles and are the largest expanse of coastal sand dunes in North America.