Now it begins above Greenland, and an expanse of open water extends north from Siberia for hundreds of miles.
I watch its air currents progress across the pond as a ripple of water extends in a widening arc.
The inflowing water extends from the surface down to 230 or 260 feet (70 or 80 metres).
Why is it so important for China to control essentially all of this body of water, extending nearly 2,000 miles from its nearest conventionally defined coastline?
To both sides were miles of unblemished marshland, and the water extending into the Gulf, except for some sheen, was clear.
On a clear day, Mr. Dybing's view from 700 feet above the water extends from the seashores of Sandy Hook, N.J., to the Watchung Mountains of New Jersey.
And he said the wetlands, which were created by a long finger of tidal water extending from Little Neck Bay, have "a strong degree of resiliency".
As recent years have shown however, anything can happen on this storied stretch of water, extending just over four miles from Putney to Chiswick in leafy West London.
Pacific Ocean, body of salt water extending from the Antarctic region in the south to the Arctic in the north and lying between the continents of Asia and Australia on the west and North and South America on the east.
He and his wife settled on the Upper West Side and, especially since his son was born two years ago, he has spent a lot of time in Central Park, walking the baby and the dog around the 22-acre body of water, extending from 71st to 78th Streets, known simply as the Lake.
