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The 8460-km coastline of Korea is highly irregular, and North Korea accounts for 2495 km of this, roughly half.
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Although the eastern coastline of South Korea is generally unindented, the southern and western coasts are jagged and irregular.
It is in contact with of cease-fire line to the north, of coastline to the west, Gangwon Province to the east, North Chungcheong Province and South Chungcheong Province to the south, and has Seoul, the capital of the Republic of Korea, situated in its center.
The Northern Limit Line, or NLL, is the de facto maritime boundary between North and South Korea in the Yellow Sea and the coastline and islands on both sides of the NLL are also heavily militarized.
Portion of the coastline of Daebu Island, Ansan City, South Korea.
* Chinese breed: Include China ( coastline part ), Korea and Japan.
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The spectacular upsurge in pleasure boating is markedly evident, expectedly, in the areas where boats have always been found: the natural lakes, rivers, and along the nation's coastline.
The length of coast-line is and the absence of deep indentations of the shore is shown by the fact that Europe, which covers only, has a coastline of.
The ACT retains a small area of territory on the coast on the Beecroft Peninsula, consisting of a strip of coastline around the northern headland of Jervis Bay ( not to be confused with the Jervis Bay Territory, which is on the southern headland of the Bay ).
His western coastline is so distorted, however, that it is impossible to say where Adjacium was ; certainly, he would have known its name and location if he had had any first-hand knowledge of the island and if in fact it was there.
The country has only of coastline, around the town of Neum in the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton, although surrounded by Croatian peninsulas it is possible to get to the middle of the Adriatic from Neum.
There is 80 km of coastline.
Four other ships sit along the coastline, one on fire while a large ship and a small ship are grounded on a shoal which is surmounted by a burning fort.
This is significant as Africans came from a vast geographic region, the West African coastline stretching from Senegal to Angola and in some cases from the south east coast such as Mozambique.
A coastline or seashore is the area where land meets the sea or ocean.
The tidal range is influenced by the size and shape of the coastline.
Sediment deposited by waves comes from eroded cliff faces and is moved along the coastline by the waves.
Sediment deposited by rivers is the dominant influence on the amount of sediment located on a coastline.
According to one principle of classification, an emergent coastline is a coastline which has experienced a fall in sea level, because of either a global sea level change, or local uplift.
In contrast, a submergent coastline is one where the sea level has risen, due to a global sea level change, local subsidence, or isostatic rebound.
According to a second principle of classification, a concordant coastline is a coastline where bands of different rock types run parallel to the shore.
* A graded shoreline is one where wind and water action has produced a flat and straight coastline.
This was the beginning of the coastline problem, which is how to arrive at an estimate of a boundary that is infinite.
The result most astounding to Richardson is that, under certain circumstances, as ℓ approaches zero, the length of the coastline approaches infinity.
A coastline is perceived as bays alternating with promontories.
In the hypothetical situation that a given coastline has this property of self-similarity, then no matter how greatly any one small section of coastline is magnified, a similar pattern of smaller bays and promontories superimposed on larger bays and promontories appears, right down to the grains of sand.
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The coastline and adjacent waters support highly productive marine ecosystems such as fringing coral reefs, shallow beds of coastal and estuarine seagrasses.
The 8, 640-kilometer coastline is highly indented.
( Normally, a sea baseline follows the low-water line, but when the coastline is deeply indented, has fringing islands or is highly unstable, straight baselines may be used.
Transport in Norway is highly influenced by Norway's low population density, narrow shape and long coastline.
On the south is a highly irregular deltaic coastline of about 580 kilometers, fissured by many rivers and streams flowing into the Bay of Bengal.
In the 21st century, property along the Port Phillip coastline continues to be highly sought after.
The coastline is rugged and highly indented, forming numerous small bays.
Ronay has a highly indented coastline with Bàgh nan Uamh being the biggest up in the north west.
People living along the coastline engage in highly productive fishing.
In this position they were highly vulnerable to continued British attack, but after only a few hours engagement, concerned that his ships might be wrecked on the rocky coastline, Bridport called off the action and allowed Villaret to regroup inshore and return to Brest.
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Territorial sea: irregular polygon extending up to 100 nautical miles ( 185 km ) from coastline as defined by 1898 treaty ; since late 1970s has also claimed polygonal-shaped area in South China Sea up to 285 nautical miles ( 528 km ) in breadth.
The drowning of river valleys along a stretch of coast and formation of rias results in an extremely irregular and indented coastline.
The coastline is formed by irregular peninsulas and bays.
Intuitively, if a coastline looks smooth it should have dimension close to 1 ; and the more irregular the coastline looks the closer its dimension should be to 2.
It is a low tundra-covered island with an irregular coastline deeply indented by Ommanney Bay in the west and Browne Bay in the east.
The coastline is very irregular, with many sheltered coves.
The long and irregular coastline of the Peninsula also presents a wide variety of sea shore conditions for specialised and interesting plant communities to develop.
The coastline of the island is irregular, with the more significant indentations of South Bay, False Bay, Moon Bay, Hero, Barclay, New Plymouth, Osogovo and Walker, and the peninsulas of Hurd ( extension ), Rozhen (), Burgas (), Varna (), Ioannes Paulus II () and Byers ().
The coastline is very irregular and contains numerous minor valleys, mountains and islets.
One will find in the island's irregular coastline white sugar-like refined beaches at par with the world famous Boracay beaches and is now fast becoming as an alternative tourist destination in the country.
It covers approximately 27, 741 square kilometers with approximately 71 kilometers of irregular coastline surrounded by the vast ocean, bay, seas and swamps.
The peninsula extends from Terra Nova National Park and follows an irregular coastline along Newman Sound to the south, around the community of Salvage, around Salvage Bay to the east and then following Damnable Bay, Morris Channel, Fair and False Bay, Bloody Reach and Northeast Arm on the north.
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