Sentence examples for ocean about from inspiring English sources

It lies on the Indian Ocean, about 180 miles (290 km) southwest of Palembang.

So that makes the Atlantic ocean about 180 million years old.

One week I'm away at sea aboard our 182-foot pilot ship, the New York, in the ocean about 13 miles off Sandy Hook.

Applicants are now kept on Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean, about 5,000km 3,1255 miles) from the big cities.

Mauritian Creole, also called Morisyen, French-based vernaculanguageuage spoken in Mauritius, a small island in the southwestern Indian Ocean, about 500 miles (800 km) east of Madagascar.

"The worst damage was toward the ocean, about five miles from where I grew up, all up and down the coast," Saito said.

On average, it pours some 95 cubic miles (400 cubic km) of water annually into the Arctic Ocean about 12 percent of that ocean's total intake from drainage.

Jan Mayen, island, part of the Kingdom of Norway, in the Greenland Sea of the Arctic Ocean, about 300 mi (500 km) east of Greenland.

Mr. Matsuda, a history professor and dean at Rutgers, published a book this year on the Pacific Ocean, about life on and near the sea.

I cross the Atlantic Ocean about 40 times a year.

It lies in the central South Pacific Ocean, about 165 miles (265 km) northwest of Tahiti.