Disposal of waste by simply dumping it at the shoreline such as here at the Russian Bellingshausen Island | Bellingshausen base is no longer permitted by the Protocol on Environmental Protection

During winter, fast ice, which is attached to the shoreline, develops first, rendering the ports unusable without the services of icebreakers.

to their left are four more anchored ships and to the left of these vessels is a distant shoreline.

Today, this is noted by signage on Interstate 80, which runs along the San Francisco Bay shoreline of Berkeley.

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

The larger, Lake Mitchell is nearby on the west side of the city, with of shoreline within the city's municipal boundary.

It is the most effective and rapid form of shoreline erosion ( not to be confused with corrosion ).

While it is difficult to comprehend how Vancouver missed the Fraser River, much of this river's delta was subject to flooding and summer freshet which prevented the captain from spotting any of its great channels as he sailed the entire shoreline from Point Roberts, Washington to Point Grey in 1792.

The geography of Windward Point is such that there are many coves and peninsulas along the bay shoreline providing ideal areas for mooring ships.

There is a boat landing area in the middle of the western shoreline near a crumbling day beacon, and another near the southwest corner of the island.

Jordan is landlocked except at its southern extremity, where nearly twenty-six kilometers of shoreline along the Gulf of Aqaba provide access to the Red Sea.

It is on the shoreline of Crispell Lake.

Kuwait's most prominent geographic feature is Kuwait Bay, which indents the shoreline for about forty kilometers, providing natural protection for the port of Kuwait and accounting for nearly onehalf the state's shoreline.

The atoll is about in perimeter, while the lagoon shoreline extends for over.

When its islands are included, the lake has a shoreline that is long.

The open water is less-affected by shoreline features, such as wetlands, and more affected by nutrient levels that control the production of algae.

It is long by wide with a shoreline long.

As sea levels retreated ( the shoreline is 7m lower today than in 1000 ) the city was no longer accessible from the ocean and was abandoned.

However, because of the long leadups to the anchorages on the Mackinac, from shoreline to shoreline it is much longer at than the Akashi-Kaikyo (

Because of the location of the shoreline — at the point where the Atlantic's cold water reach Africa — there is often extremely dense fog.

Only 16 % of the total length is rocky shoreline.

If the first part of a tsunami to reach land is a trough — called a drawback — rather than a wave crest, the water along the shoreline recedes dramatically, exposing normally submerged areas.

The Annapolis Royal Generating Station has been studied for its various effects, including an accelerated shoreline erosion problem on the historic waterfront of the town of Annapolis Royal, as well as increased siltation and heavy metal and pesticide contamination upstream due to lack of regular river / tidal flushing.

* Beach cusps, a pointed and regular arc pattern of the shoreline at the beach

The shoreline beaches of the sanctuary are a regular nesting site of the endangered Olive Ridley Turtle.

By 1783 her legions had managed to annex the Crimea amid scenes of wanton cruelty and now, in this second combat with the Crescent, were aiming at suzerainty over all of the Black Sea's northern shoreline.

Interior portions of Connecticut have a humid continental climate, while the Connecticut shoreline ( the state's southern four counties ) has a borderline humid subtropical climate ( sometimes statistically meeting this climate's criteria, sometimes not ) with seasonal extremes tempered by proximity to the Atlantic Ocean.

The entire service, the Marines were deployed in East Pakistan, initially tasked with conducting exercises and combat operations in riverine areas and at near shoreline.

To some degree, these patterns can be linked to the geographical resources themselves, with abundant shoreline, generally calm seas, and steady winds favoring the use of sailing vessels, and fertile valleys and plains — at least in the Greater Sunda Islands — permitting irrigated rice farming.

* On the shoreline of the Maremma sandy beaches alternate with rocky coastline.

The relationship between the two Latin American countries has evolved amid conflicts over the San Andrés y Providencia Islands located in the Caribbean sea close to the Nicaraguan shoreline and the maritime boundaries covering 150, 000 km² that included the islands of San Andres, Providencia and Santa Catalina and the banks of Roncador, Serrana, Serranilla and Quitasueño as well as the arbitrarily designed 82nd meridian west which Colombia claims as a border but which the International Court has sided with Nicaragua in disavowing.

The sequence and details of the events are very close to the historical record, including the seasickness experienced by many of the soldiers as the landing craft moved toward the shoreline, significant casualties among the men as they disembarked from the boats, and difficulty linking up with adjacent units on the shore.

note: Uzbekistan includes the southern portion of the Aral Sea with a 420 km shoreline.

In 1850, Colonel Isaac N. Ebey became the first permanent white settler on Whidbey Island, claiming a square mile ( 2. 6 km² ) of prairie with a southern shoreline on Admiralty Inlet.

This 1893 sketch of the Art Institute of Chicago shows most of today's Grant Park still submerged under Lake Michigan with railroad tracks running along the shoreline behind the Museum

Portugal's long shoreline, with its many harbours and rivers flowing westward to the Atlantic ocean was the ideal environment to raise generations of adventurous seamen.

During winter the Power Authority of New York works with Ontario Power Generation, to prevent ice on the Niagara River from interfering with power production or causing flooding of shoreline property.

Since the Great Salt Lake is a shallow lake with gently sloping shores around all edges except on the south side, small variations in the water level greatly affect the extent of the shoreline.

The western portion of the World Trade Center site was originally under the Hudson River, with the shoreline in the vicinity of Greenwich Street.

The real problem for Barbados is that tourist facilities are too densely concentrated on the south coast, which is highly urbanised, while the Atlantic coast, with its rugged shoreline and large waves, is not suitable for beach tourism.

The lake has a shoreline of, with islands constituting 3. 7 % of this length, and is divided among three countries: Kenya ( 6 % or ), Uganda ( 45 % or ) and Tanzania ( 49 % or ).

SWD's recreation areas are the most visited in the Corps with more than of shoreline and 1, 172 recreation sites.

To improve the management of coastal coral reefs, another environmental group, the World Resources Institute ( WRI ) developed and published tools for calculating the value of coral reef-related tourism, shoreline protection and fisheries, partnering with five Caribbean countries.

Southwest of Yuma County, is the entirety of Northwest Mexico, at the north shoreline of the Sea of Cortez, and the outlet of the Colorado River into the Colorado River Delta region, now altered with lack of freshwater inputs.

Its length and maximum width creates more than of shoreline, with many bays, inlets and promontories.