11.   Television images showed refugees huddled at a railing on the edge of the boat during the evacuation, waiting to descend a rickety staircase onto the rocky coastline.

12.   The island, with its spectacular rocky red coastline and remote mountain villages hewn from granite, still doubles in population during the summer months.

13.   The spill has soiled hundreds of miles of rocky coastline and polluted oyster beds.

14.   Wildlife officers and volunteers Wednesday saved seven stranded melon-headed whales which had stranded themselves near rocky coastline.

15.   But coastguards near the wreck just off the southern Welsh coast at Milford Haven denied reports that the supertanker had started to break up on the rocky coastline.

16.   Oman has begun opening up cautiously to foreign tourists searching for golden deserts, lush-green mountains, rocky coastline and the legend of Sinbad the sailor.