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A sand island surrounded by moving tides

A long sand island curves into the sea along the coast of Tasmania, Australia. Shallow turquoise waters create visible tidal patterns around the shoreline. This coastal formation highlights the ...
Here we’re continuing a series in partnership with Surfing World magazine. Each will tell a story of country, from a place we prize as a surfing heartland, from a time long before we learned to surf ...
Tidal sand waves are a key geomorphological feature of shallow, sandy continental shelves, generated by the interplay of tidal currents, non-tidal hydrodynamic processes, and sediment dynamics. These ...
A narrow sand tidal island called Spurn in Yorkshire was featured in BBC’s Seven Natural Wonders in 2005 - here is some background on how it was formed. Spurn is a narrow sand tidal island situated on ...