Plenty more conventional oil and gas also lie off America's coast.
They lie off Attica (Modern Greek: Attikí) in the Aegean Sea.
Royal Dutch Shell is determined to exploit vast reserves believed to lie off Alaska's coast.
Scapa Flow, extensive landlocked anchorage in Scotland's Orkney Islands, which lie off the northern tip of the Scottish mainland.
The enigmatic Blue Ridge lie off to the west, cloaked in the haze that gives them their name.
The diving sites lie off beaches stretching from Rayong province in the east down to Satun in the far south.
Two smaller islands, Philip (a volcanic pinnacle rising to 900 feet [275 m]) and Nepean (a limestone formation), lie off the southern shore.
But increasingly, there's an awareness that the aging of the globe doesn't lie off on the horizon: It's a reality, here and now, and unfolding at breathtaking speed.
Mainland, also called Pomona, central and largest of the Orkney Islands of Scotland, which lie off the northern tip of the Scottish mainland.
In addition, most of the republic's more than 1,600 islands lie off its Pacific coast; they include the Perlas Archipelago (Pearl Islands) and the islands of Taboga, Cébaco, Parida, Jicarón, and Coiba, the largest.
Another theory — denied by the Cypriot government — is that Russia hopes for preferential treatment in getting rights to explore the natural gas reserves that are believed to lie off the Cypriot coast.
