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.

This was the beginning of the coastline problem, which is how to arrive at an estimate of a boundary that is infinite.

The prevailing method of estimating the length of a border ( or coastline ) was to lay out n equal straight-line segments of length ℓ with dividers on a map or aerial photograph.

The empire also had to deal with Japanese pirates attacking the southeastern coastline ; General Qi Jiguang was instrumental in defeating these pirates.

Before its coastline was first explored by Europeans in the 16th century, Delaware was inhabited by several groups of Native Americans, including the Lenape in the north and Nanticoke in the south.

In May 2012, it was announced that 3. 7 km < sup > 2 </ sup > of Stanley Common ( which lies between the Stanley – Mount Pleasant road and the shoreline ) was made safe and had been opened to the public, opening up a three kilometer stretch of coastline and a further two kilometres of shoreline along Mullet's Creek.

Following the revolt, Muhammad Pasha, the son of Muhammad Ali, expelled nearly 10, 000 of the local peasants to Egypt, while bringing loyal Arab peasants from Egypt and discharged soldiers to settle the coastline of Palestine, northern Jordan Valley was settled by his Sudanese troops.

The realignment resulted in some exchange of territory, and Jordan's coastline on the Gulf of Aqaba was lengthened by about eighteen kilometers.

Its capital was moved to Acre and controlled most of the coastline of present day Israel and southern and central Lebanon, including the strongholds and towns of Jaffa, Arsuf, Caesarea, Tyre, Sidon, and Beirut.

As Hungary is landlocked ( its coastline was severed after World War I ), Lake Balaton is often affectionately called the " Hungarian Sea ".

The division of this almost round island into parishes was done in a circular sector pattern, so each parish is shaped like a pie slice, reaching from the highest point of Nevis Peak down to the coastline.

In 1987, China's 1, 500 km coastline was protected by more than 100 diesel-powered Romeo-and Whiskey-class submarines, which could remain at sea only a limited time.

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.

The first recorded European sighting of the South Australian coast was in 1627 when the Dutch ship the Gulden Zeepaert, captained by François Thijssen, examined the coastline.

The coastline of South Australia was first mapped by Matthew Flinders and Nicolas Baudin in 1802.

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.

During the Song Dynasty ( AD 960 – 1279 ) Shanghai was upgraded in status from a village to a market town in 1074, and in 1172 a second sea wall was built to stabilize the ocean coastline, supplementing an earlier dyke.

The coastline offered few suitable points for landing and was backed by an unhealthy swamp belt.

Soundings were taken and a rough survey of the coastline was made.

The voyage then progressed to Tahiti ( where the transit of Venus was observed, the overt purpose of the mission ), to New Zealand and to the east coast of Australia, where Cook mapped the coastline and made landfall at Botany Bay and at Endeavour River ( near modern Cooktown ) in Queensland, where they spent almost seven weeks ashore while the ship was repaired after becoming holed on the Great Barrier Reef.

Under the Treaty of Neuilly ( November 1919 ) Bulgaria ceded its Aegean coastline to Greece, recognized the existence of Yugoslavia, ceded nearly all of its Macedonian territory to that new state, and had to give Dobruja back to Romania.

After the coastline was ceded to Russia in 1829 as a result of the Russo-Turkish War, admirals Mikhail Lazarev and Nikolay Raevsky founded an eastern base for the Black Sea Fleet on the shore in 1838.

Russia has an extensive coastline of over along the Arctic and Pacific Oceans, as well as along the Baltic Sea, Sea of Azov, Black Sea and Caspian Sea.

The town, along with Kaliningrad, remains one of only two year-round, ice-free ports along the Baltic Sea coastline available to Russia.

Zelenogradsk, (; ; ) is a town and the administrative center of Zelenogradsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located north of Kaliningrad on the Sambian coastline near the Curonian Spit on the Baltic Sea.

The construction of an offshore oil-drilling facility ( the Kravtsovskoye ( D-6 ) oilfield ) in the territorial waters of Russia, 22. 5 kilometres from the coastline of the Curonian Spit raised concerns over possible oil spills.

Sarychev, on ship Slava Rossii ( Glory of Russia ), described and mapped the coastline of the Sea of Okhotsk from Okhotsk to Aldoma, many of the Aleutian Islands ( especially Unalaska ).

The Kola Norwegians were Norwegian settlers along the coastline of the Kola Peninsula in Russia.

In order to be able to defend the conquered coastline and attack enemy's maritime communications in the Baltic Sea, the Russians created a sailing fleet from the ships built in Russia and imported from abroad.

The Russo-Turkish War of 1768-1774 ended victoriously for Russia, which gained the coasts of the Sea of Azov and a part of the Black Sea coastline between the rivers Bug and Dniester.

The result most astounding to Richardson is that, under certain circumstances, as ℓ approaches zero, the length of the coastline approaches infinity.

Human factors, however, brought about a change in the equilibrium in the mid-20th century with the result that the entire coastline of the northern Adriatic is now degrading.

Rapidly retreating south with the Despensers, Edward failed to grip the situation, with the result that Isabella found herself and her household cut off from the south by the Scottish army, with the coastline patrolled by Flemish naval forces allied to the Scots.

As a result of its maritime possessions and coastline, Portugal has the third largest Exclusive Economic Zone of the European Union countries ( and eleventh in the world ).

As a result German command, particularly Rommel, took steps to heavily fortify that area of coastline.

The winter weather patterns that affect New London result from a primarily offshore or westerly direction, thus reducing the marine influence of Long Island Sound — although, like other marine areas, differences in temperature between areas along the coastline and areas inland can be large at times.

Steep mountains near the sea and an almost flat lowland area in between the mountains and the sea ( Strandflaten, coastal brim ) is very typical for the long coastline in Nordland, and Strandflaten often continues out from the shore, the result is numerous islands ( skerries ), of which Helgeland have thousands ; these islands are usually mountainous, but with smaller or larger strandflate areas.

As a result German command, particularly Rommel, took steps to heavily fortify that area of coastline.

Confusion set in among the Peloponnesians ; some rowers in leading ships dropped their oars to allow the main body to catch up with them — thus leaving themselves immobile and vulnerable in the face of an enemy force ; other ships ran aground as a result of their captains ' ignorance of the coastline.

Experts such as Paul McHugh of Cambridge University stated that this was unlikely to result in full exclusive ownership, however these assurances were not strong enough to counter the perception that the door was now open for Māori to claim title to the entire coastline of New Zealand through the Māori land court.

If one were to measure a stretch of coastline with a yardstick, one would get a shorter result than if the same stretch were measured with a 30cm ( one-foot ) ruler.

Since glacial ice spreads sideways and downslope ( as a result of gravity ), in some areas this ice reaches the coastline.

No known damage was caused as a result of this storm and storm-force winds were only recorded over a small area on the Texas coastline.

Now Tas-Sliema and the coastline up to neighbouring St. Julian's constitutes Malta's main coastal resort ; as a result, Tas-Sliema has been ringed with modern apartment blocks and become engorged with traffic in recent decades causing protest from the Sliema Residents Association.

Hollister Ranch owners are currently restricted in terms of development in a situation that many say will result in efficient preservation of one of the last vestiges of the natural California coastline.

As a result, most ship did not return to Brest until the winter and were consequently unable to threaten British control of the French coastline for the remainder of the year.

The bay, protected by a narrow inlet that provides shelter from strong Indian Ocean winds, is believed to be the result of a submerging coastline or a drowned river valley that formed many peninsulas around the bay.

The islands themselves were formed more recently as a result of rising sea levels, creating a drowned coastline.