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  2. List of beaches - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of beaches of the world, sorted by country. A beach is a landform along the shoreline of an ocean, sea, lake, or river. It usually consists of loose particles, which are often composed of rock , such as sand , gravel , shingle , pebbles , or cobblestones .

  3. Outer Banks - Wikipedia

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    The term "Outer Banks" refers to the islands, shoals, and spits from Ocracoke northward, also includes Core Banks, and is frequently abbreviated OBX on regional tourism marketing. In recent decades, the beaches to the south of Cape Lookout have been marketing themselves as the "Southern Outer Banks", including the marketing as SOBX; this region ...

  4. Hemispheres of Earth - Wikipedia

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    In geography and cartography, hemispheres of Earth are any division of the globe into two equal halves ( hemispheres ), typically divided into northern and southern halves by the Equator or into western and eastern halves by the Prime meridian. Hemispheres can be divided geographically or culturally, or based on religion or prominent geographic ...

  5. Oregon Coast - Wikipedia

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    Southward view from Ecola State Park, Northern Oregon Coast Map of the Oregon Coast. The Oregon Coast is a coastal region of the U.S. state of Oregon.It is bordered by the Pacific Ocean to its west and the Oregon Coast Range to the east, and stretches approximately 362 miles (583 km) from the California state border in the south to the Columbia River in the north.

  6. North Sea - Wikipedia

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    The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France. An epeiric sea on the European continental shelf, it connects to the Atlantic Ocean through the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian Sea in the north. It is more than 970 kilometres (600 mi) long and 580 kilometres (360 mi) wide ...

  7. List of beaches in New England - Wikipedia

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    Partial map of Rhode Island beaches Rhode Island has saltwater beaches along Narragansett Bay and the Atlantic Ocean from which it gets its state nickname, "The Ocean State". In addition, the state has several freshwater beaches along its rivers.

  8. Northern Hemisphere - Wikipedia

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    Northern Hemisphere. Coordinates: 90°0′0″N 0°0′0″E. Northern Hemisphere shaded blue. The hemispheres appear unequal here because Antarctica is not shown. Northern Hemisphere from above the North Pole. The Northern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is north of the Equator. For other planets in the Solar System, north is defined as ...

  9. Yellow Sea - Wikipedia

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    Hwanghae or Seohae. McCune–Reischauer. Hwanghae or Sŏhae. The Yellow Sea, also known as North Sea, is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean located between mainland China and the Korean Peninsula, and can be considered the northwestern part of the East China Sea. Since November 1, 2018, the Yellow Sea has served as the location of ...