"offshore" as preposition?

[Benjamin Barrett]

"Offshore England" gets a lot of hits, some of which are relevant.

Preposition:
http://www.sea-technology.com/news/archives/2012/mar_renewables/mar_renewables_0312.php
Fyns Kran Udstyr A/S (Odense, Denmark) has tested its hydraulic lifting yoke in London Array, offshore England’s east coast. 

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324744104578473273975041426.html
Apache drills globally, with operations in Australia, Alaska, Canada, Egypt and offshore England.

http://www.onepetro.org/mslib/servlet/onepetropreview?id=SPE-106011-MS
Several typical field applications are reviewed, including cases in North Sea, offshore England, and offshore Brunei.

Adjective with "onshore" bonus: http://jgs.geoscienceworld.org/content/156/4/779.abstract
examples from the Triassic of onshore and offshore England and Northern Ireland

Benjamin Barrett
Seattle, WA

On May 19, 2013, at 5:00 PM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> From Wikipedia's page about the novel *Storm* (
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_%28novel%29):
> 
> A cyclone develops offshore Japan, and becomes a significant storm that
> moves into California as a blizzard of significance for the Sierra Nevada
> range, with snowfall amounts of 20 feet (6.1 m).
> 
> I don't recall ever seeing this usage before, only Adv + "of": "offshore of
> PLACE". It could easily be a typing error, but development of a
> prepositional use makes sense too. I can't think of a way to search the Web
> for it. Any observations, in either sense?

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