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Last year, Verdant's East River project was wrapping up five years of turbine design testing in the tidal strait's notorious currents.
Peter Hanlon: Hydrokinetic Power: The Next Wave in Renewable Energy? Peter Hanlon 2012
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And the strait's fierce waters still on occasion swallow a ship or two.
OVER TROUBLED WATERS 2008
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In the past, Iran has threatened to block the strait's narrow choke point to the Persian Gulf if attacked.
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In the past, Iran has threatened to block the strait's narrow choke point to the Persian Gulf if attacked.
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In the past, Iran has threatened block the strait's narrow choke point to the Persian Gulf if attacked.
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_ -- This morning wee warp out of the harbour with six merchantmen and a doggar, which wee are to convoy towards the strait's mouth.
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The plan was to make the Furneaux Group, then steer westward through the strait till the open ocean was reached on the further side; and, that accomplished, and the fact of strait's existence conclusively demonstrated, to turn down the western coast of Van Diemen's Land, round the southern extremity, and sail back to Port Jackson up the east coast.
The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Scott, Ernest, 1868-1939 1914
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The plan was to make the Furneaux Group, then steer westward through the strait till the open ocean was reached on the further side; and, that accomplished, and the fact of strait's existence conclusively demonstrated, to turn down the western coast of Van Diemen's
The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Ernest Scott 1903
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Ours must all enter at a strait only five leagues wide; so that their cruisers, taking a safe and commanding position near the strait's mouth, may very effectually inspect whatever enters it.
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Thus determined, and disregarding a further expostulation from the fisherman, our lads set their faces resolutely towards the confusion of hummocks, "pans," floes tilted on edge, and up-reared masses of blue ice forming the "strait's pack" of that season.
Under the Great Bear Kirk Munroe 1890
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