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Secure all loose gear, hatches or ports. Determine your location and the best course back to shelter. Keep a sharp lookout for the other boats and obstructions.
I think that the question asks about the time of the War in Bosnia and other parts of Yugoslavia in the first part of the 90s. The Serbian soldiers that committed mass murder of Bosnian population, mostly men, referred to this as "ethnic cleansing" which sounded better than "genocide"
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One would most likely find a glacier-carved lake in Patagonia
Glaciers shaped the landscape is the answer. Actually, in Nova Scotia near Halifax there is a glacial boulder or erratic of basalt which is deemed to come from about 130km away perhaps from the north or NW. Also, there are glacial striations there on the bedrock which can be used to determine the sense of the direction of flow of the ice. In New England, there are pro-glacial lakes. Both the Maritimes and New England were most likely covered by the Laurentide continental glaciation.
Japanese archipelago or the Japan Sea