Merchant ships anchored several miles offshore, where passengers and cargo transshipped to shallow-draft vessels that approach the shore.

Glass eels become progressively pigmented as they approach the shore; these eels are termed elvers.

The troops would be supported as they landed by twelve schooners, each mounting one or more heavy cannon, which could approach the shore closely.

They should have been moved away as soon as they were first spotted approaching the shore.

They rained javelins down on any ship that approached the shore.

Motorboats that had been carved from vast tree trunks ferried families and cargo between the tiny thatched hamlets that dotted the shores and islands.

Nowadays, small lakes dot the shores of this salt flat.

The first communities broke ground at about that same time and now some 120 different communities dot the shores of the lake.

From the southern shore of the lake a narrow peninsula, little more than a causeway, in places scarcely 100m wide, reaches out for 2km towards the middle of the lake.

We have just left a city and are heading west along an estuary's southern shore.

On the southern shore of the bay they built a whaling station.

A patrol path existed for border guards along the southern shore.

On the southern shore grow lots of blueberries and cranberries.

He scrambles down a cliff on western shore and hides on a small ledge.

We drive 14 miles to the lake's western shore, where, two snaps in the can, we tackle clue two.

Island-hopping along the lough's western shore, we pull up at a small concrete jetty half hidden in the reeds.

We donned our waterproofs and walking boots, then took the 50p car ferry over to the western shore.

Opened in 1809, it starts in a town set on an inlet's western shore - to which it runs parallel for 1½ miles.