The islands of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland comprise the Uists, Harris and Lewis. The isolated, rocky islands are fringed with beautiful sandy beaches that are often compared to those of the Caribbean, in appearance, but not climate! And are also famous for the unusual coastal features known as “machair” that occur there.
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Anegada, the most northeasterly of the British Virgin Islands is a sandy island that sits on top of a Pleistocene reef that is now exposed above sea level.
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Fire Island is a barrier island that runs east to west on the southern coast of Long Island in New York.
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Assawoman Island is in Virginia, USA on the peninsula of land between the Chesapeake Bay and Delaware Bay.
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Cedar Island, North Carolina, USA is an east – west trending island along the southern rim of Pamlico Sound.
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A slide show of European Bad Beach Management by Andrew Cooper.
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Photo of the Month
Plastic Pollution
Sand Wars – United Nations-GEA
Sand Mining Detrimental Effects
The World’s Beaches
Coastal Care Junior
NASA – Fly along with NASA’s fleet of Earth science missions and observe Earth from a global perspective in an immersive, 3-D environment.
