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unusual facts about shoreline



Agua Blanca, Oaxaca

Locals using both lines and nets catch Yellowtail amberjack, Skipjack tuna, and agujon off the beach, and the rocky shoreline is also popular for oyster divers and lobster fisherman.

Arambol

Cafés and restaurants have mushroomed all along the shoreline, from the small "Sweet Water Lake" beach all the way to Mandrem.

Baby Island Heights, Washington

Most of the community is medium- to high-bank waterfront as it stretches along the shoreline of the Saratoga Passage.

Bellerive, Tasmania

It stretches from Kangaroo Bay where it borders Rosny Park, around the curved shoreline of Bellerive Esplanade to Kangaroo Bluff, then down to Bellerive Beach and east to Second Bluff, where Bellerive borders Howrah.

Blues Train

The four-carriage train, drawn by a steam locomotive, departs from Queenscliff railway station after customers have eaten, running around the southern shoreline of Swan Bay through saltmarsh before puffing up the hill to the Bellarine plateau and travelling through grazing country.

Brown Bluff

Lichens in the genera Xanthoria and Caloplaca have been recorded on exposed boulders from the shoreline to an elevation of 185 m.

Buono Beach

In 1996, ground was broken for a $1,828,000 Buono Beach-Alice Austen House Park Shoreline Rehabilitation, sponsored by New York City Council Member Jerome X. O'Donovan.

California State Route 173

A few miles from Lake Arrowhead, SR 173 becomes paved and enters the community of Cedar Glen, where it parallels the Lake Arrowhead shoreline and encounters Papoose Lake.

Cankurtaran railway station

Cankurtaran station is just a block north of Kennedy Boulevard, along with the shoreline and a few blocks south of the Hagia Sophia and the Imperial Gate to the Topkapı Palace.

Cesare Pagano

On July 8, 2010, Pagano and two other men – including his fugitive nephew Carmine Pagano – were arrested in a beach villa in Licola near the town of Pozzuoli, on the northern shoreline of the sprawling southern Italian city of Naples.

Chippewa Nature Center

The center offers educational programs for everyone, ranging from pre-school to senior adults, and their property includes over three miles of shoreline along the Pine and Chippewa Rivers.

Clancy Philbrick

In 2009 Clancy painted a large rock into a pink brain, dubbed The Brain Rock, on the Connecticut shoreline sparking local controversy after an article on the rock was published in The Day and The New York Times.

Coast Guard Air Station Savannah

Air Station Savannah provides Search & Rescue(SAR) coverage 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, for 450 miles of shoreline from the northern border of South Carolina to Melbourne, Florida, averaging more than 250 SAR cases a year.

Colchester, Ontario

As the oldest known structure along Lake Erie's shoreline, the house was completed in 1813 and a letter from the time indicates that men were working on the home's roof as cannons roared during the Battle of Lake Erie.

Cova Figueira

The area around Cova Figueira contains farmlands within the city and the shoreline, the rest of the area are slopey and features grasslands and rocks, the mountain that includes Chã das Caldeiras is situated to the northwest.

Diablo Canyon earthquake vulnerability

Thereafter, discovery of the Shoreline fault caused a round of controversy leading Assemblyman Sam Blakeslee to introduce legislation mandating 3-D seismic studies.

Discovery Bay, Washington

Beckett Point is a shoreline community a mile south of Cape George.

Douglas, Chicago

Burnham Park runs along its shoreline, containing 31st Street Beach. The community area also contains part of the neighborhood of Bronzeville, the historic center of African-American culture in the city.

East Bayside

In 1840 the Union Railroad ran along the then shoreline of Back Cove, following approximately where Oxford Street is today.

Florida State Road 559

It straddles the shoreline of Lake Ariana and Lake Juliana, and also passes through the fictional city of Orlampa near Polk City.

Geography of Toronto

In the west end, Davenport Road follows the ancient shoreline with the steps to Casa Loma rising above and downtown skyscrapers clearly visible to the southeast.

George Streeter

The reality was that the Lincoln Park Board had worked to fill in the shoreline in that area, allowing them to build Lake Shore Drive on the infill.

Gulf of Fonseca

Black Mangrove (Bruguiera gymnorrhiza) is the second most pervasive species and is generally found around the rivers where sediments are deposited along the shoreline.

History of Lobos

On August 21, 1779 Gunnery Sergeant Pedro Rodríguez concluded the construction of the main parts of the fort San Pedro de Los Lobos, over the eastern bank of the Lagoon about 300 meters from its shoreline and nearly 1,500 meters east of the mouth of Las Garzas stream, finishing the work Lieutenant Bernardo Serrano had begun.

House IV

Roger Cobb (William Katt) is now married to Kelly (Terri Treas), has a daughter, Laurel (Melissa Clayton), and lives in the old Cobb family house that is located on a deserted and desolate shoreline.

Hovs Hallar

The location is also the setting for the opening scenes of The Seventh Seal, with the Knight challenging Death to a game of chess for his life on the shoreline.

Joe Parisi

Land-use in the district ranges from high-intensity urban and heavy industrial to natural areas as well as several miles of Lake Monona shoreline.

Lake Maury

Archer and his wife, the sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington, acquired 800 acres (3.2 km²) of land that would come to hold 61,000 square feet (5,700 m²) of exhibition galleries, a research library, a 167 acre (676,000 m²) lake, a five mile (8 km) shoreline trail with fourteen bridges, and over 35,000 maritime artifacts from around the globe.

Mangere Inlet

In the discussions around Stadium New Zealand, constructing the new venue over the eastern shoreline of the inlet was mooted by several architects as a potential alternative to the Auckland CBD location.

Mary P. Sinclair

When Consumers Power announced their intentions to build the Palisades Nuclear Generating Station on the shoreline of Lake Michigan in 1967, Mary Sinclair's background in nuclear fission technology prompted her to write a letter to the editor questioning the safety of several elements of their plan.

McEntire

Rhea-McEntire House, historic antebellum mansion on the shoreline of the Tennessee River's Wheeler Lake in Decatur, Alabama

Media in Erie, Pennsylvania

Likewise, some London area, channels and radio stations can be picked up in various parts of the Erie shoreline.

New Jersey Route 166

There, Route 166 turns to the northeast, running along the shoreline for the Atlantic Ocean.

Oxford Township, Erie County, Ohio

Marcy Kaptur (D-Toledo) is the elected official for this district, which spans the Lake Erie shoreline from Toledo to the western suburbs of Cleveland.

Padre Island National Seashore

During periods throughout the summer months there may be a large amount of Sargassum, a brown seaweed, that washes up on the shore which aids in shore development by acting to hold sand in place, which can eventually build up the shoreline.

Paracas Bay

The bay appears as the gateway to Paracas National Reserve, its warmer shallow waters foster wildlife and many nautical sports, and its calm shoreline protects the municipality of Paracas and the various cottages and hotels that have sprung up in the last few years.

Pennsylvania Route 299

At the north end of the bridge, the PA 299 designation ends and Powell Avenue continues north as a local road past Erie International Airport, intersecting PA 5 (West 12th Street) and PA 5 Alternate (West Lake Road) before continuing several more blocks to the Lake Erie shoreline.

Pontchartrain Beach

In the early 1930s, subsequent to the construction of a seawall extending from West End to the Industrial Canal that created a new shoreline for Lake Pontchartrain, Pontchartrain Beach was moved to a new location at the lake end of Elysian Fields Avenue, a location formerly offshore of Milneburg.

Purple Skimmer

The main habitat type for this species is clear, sandy lakes with shoreline stands of maidencane (Panicum hemitomon) and sometimes sedges and St. John's worts.

Quiggly hole

The reason for the abandonment is believed to have been the collapse of a slide which had blocked the Fraser River, forming a lake reaching upstream many miles, such that the location at Keatley Creek was near the shoreline (it is today on a benchland high above the river's canyon).

Reflections at Keppel Bay

Reflections at Keppel Bay in Singapore is a 99 year leasehold luxury waterfront residential complex on approx 84,0000 m² of land with 750m of shoreline and was completed by 2011.

Santo André, Póvoa de Varzim

Santo André is an area surrounding Cape Santo André in the Portuguese municipality of Póvoa de Varzim, whose territory runs along the northern shoreline of the parish of A Ver-o-Mar (also known as Quião) and south shoreline of Aguçadoura.

Tom Hilpert

In 2009 he published Superior Justice, a mystery novel set on Minnesota's Lake Superior Shoreline.

U.S. Route 60

A few miles south of the bridge-tunnel, in Norfolk, US 60 diverges to the east to follow the south shoreline of the Chesapeake Bay through Ocean View and past the south entrance to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel to reach Cape Henry.

United States military divers

He was attached to OSS Detachment 101 and OSS Detachment 404 in the China and Burma and India war area where he and his team conducted reconnaissance and infiltration by sea, scouted enemy shoreline, and participated in combat swimmer and covert operations.

Walther Linis

They started in France and sailed through the Suez Canal to Arabia where they unloaded oil and continued over the Pacific shoreline to San Diego in California and on into the Panama Canal to the Gulf island of Aruba, waterless island but they could get oil board and then took 12 trips between many U.S. cities in the east shore, the boat went several times to the port of Tampico in Mexico from 1957-58.

Westlake, New Zealand

The name arises from its position on the western shoreline of Lake Pupuke.

William Langson Lathrop

He continued sailing for pleasure in his later years, painting scenes of the Atlantic shoreline and even once entertaining Albert Einstein on board as a guest.

York Harbor, Maine

The Cliff Walk, an ancient shoreline path lined with beach roses, winds along Eastern Point ledges above the surf.


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