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 ).

A coastline or seashore is the area where land meets the sea or ocean.

Atlantic rocky coastline, showing a surf area.

The Cocos ( Keeling ) Islands consist of two flat, low-lying coral atolls with an area of, of coastline, a highest elevation of and thickly covered with coconut palms and other vegetation.

Crete covers an area of, with a coastline of ; to the north, it broaches the Sea of Crete ( Greek: Κρητικό Πέλαγος ); to the south, the Libyan Sea ( Greek: Λιβυκό Πέλαγος ); in the west, the Myrtoan Sea, and toward the east the Karpathian Sea.

Denmark's general coastline is much shorter, at, as it would, among other geographical features, not include most of the 1, 419 offshore islands ( each defined as exceeding 100 square meters in area ) and the 180 km long Limfjorden, which separates Denmark's second largest island, North Jutlandic Island, 4, 686 km < sup > 2 </ sup > in size, from the rest of Jutland.

The Dutch visited Australia's northern coastline in the 1600s, and created the first European maps of the area.

El Salvador is the smallest Central American country in area and is the only one without a coastline on the Caribbean sea.

Their homeland – the Inuvialuit Settlement Region – covers the Arctic Ocean coastline area from the Alaskan border east to Amundsen Gulf and includes the western Canadian Arctic Islands.

In 1901, Vaccaro Brothers and Company established offices in La Ceiba and Salado and eventually controlled the banana industry between Boca Cerrada and Balfate ( an area of about 80 kilometers of coastline ).

Mussolini planned to invade Greece and other countries like Yugoslavia in the area to give Italy territorial control of most of the Mediterranean Sea coastline, as part of the Fascists objective of creating the objective of Mare Nostrum (" Our Sea ") in which Italy would dominate the Mediterranean.

The island of Jersey has an area of 119 square kilometres, with 70 kilometres of coastline.

The province has a saltwater coastline bordering Hudson Bay and contains over 110, 000 lakes, covering approximately 15. 6 percent or of its surface area.

The beach Ribersborg, by locals usually called Ribban, south-west of the harbour area, is a man-made shallow beach, stretching along Malmö's coastline.

A series of ring roads were constructed ( Isa al Kabeer avenue in the 1930s, Exhibition avenue in the 1960s and Al Fateh highway in the 1980s ), to push back the coastline and extend the city area in belt-like forms.

It has an area of 260 square kilometres, and a coastline of 64 km.

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.

Because the area of the fossil site was four hundred kilometers removed from the coastline and there were no indications of large rivers or deep lakes nearby at the end of the Cretaceous, Lawson in 1975 rejected a fish-eating lifestyle, instead suggesting that Quetzalcoatlus scavenged like the Marabou Stork, but then on the carcasses of titanosaur sauropods such as Alamosaurus.

Serbia and Montenegro had an area of 102, 350 square kilometres ( 39, 518 sq mi ), with 199 kilometres ( 124 mi ) of coastline.

During the second millennium BCE, Syria was occupied successively by Canaanites, Phoenicians, and Arameans as part of the general disruptions associated with the Sea Peoples ; the Phoenicians settled along the coastline of these area as well as in the west ( Now Lebanon & The current Syrian coast ), in the area already known for its cedars.

Shetland is around north of mainland Scotland, covers an area of and has a coastline long.

It is composed of over 80 islands with 2, 528 km of coastline and a total surface area of 14, 760 km², making it slightly larger than the state of Connecticut.

Campania has an area of 13, 595 sq km and a coastline of 350 km on the Tyrrhenian Sea.

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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 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.

Moreover, Brazil has of land borders and of coastline to be patrolled and defended.

Brunei shares a border with Malaysia and has 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.

* A graded shoreline is one where wind and water action has produced a flat and straight coastline.

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.

Côte d ' Ivoire has a brown-water navy whose mission is coastal surveillance and security for the nation's 340-mile coastline.

The Caribbean coastline has many gulfs and bays: the Gulf of Gonâve, Gulf of Venezuela, Gulf of Darién, Golfo de los Mosquitos, Gulf of Paria and Gulf of Honduras.

Ecuador is bounded on the north by the Pacific Ocean, and has 2, 337 km of coastline.

El Salvador has a coastline of 307 km.

Estonia has a long, shallow coastline () along the Baltic Sea, with 1, 520 islands dotting the shore.

Ethiopia's fisheries are entirely freshwater, as it has no marine coastline, and are a small part of the economy.

Europa has 22. 2 kilometres of coastline, but no ports or harbours.

Greenland has no land boundaries and 44, 087 km of coastline.

The Sussex coast has always suffered from occasional violent storms ; with the additional hazard of longshore drift ( the eastward movement of shingle along the coast ) the coastline has been frequently changing.

It has a land frontier of and a coastline of.

Including islands, Italy has a coastline of on the Adriatic, Ionian, Tyrrhenian and Ligurian Sea.