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Paradise Beach (Afrikaans: Paradysstrand) is a suburb of Jeffreys Bay in Sarah Baartman District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It is situated about 80 kilometres (50 mi) west of Port Elizabeth .
Even in a sun-and-sand powerhouse like the Caribbean, Antigua stands out for its variety of beaches. Locals say there are 365 beaches, allowing you to swim at a different beach each day for an ...
Tropicality gained renewed interest in geographical discourse when French geographer Pierre Gourou published Les pays tropicaux (The Tropical World in English), in the late 1940s. [15] Tropicality encompassed two major images. One, is that the tropics represent a 'Garden of Eden', a heaven on Earth, a land of rich biodiversity or a tropical ...
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See also References A The Abarat: 25 islands in an archipelago, one for each hour and one for all the hours, from the series The Books of Abarat by Clive Barker Absolom: a prison island in the movie Escape from Absolom Acidophilus: an island in Greece appearing in the adventure game Spy Fox in "Dry Cereal" Aepyornis Island: an atoll near Madagascar, in H. G. Wells' story by that name Al Amarja ...
Under both classifications, at least one month must average below 18 °C (64.4 °F) or the climate is considered tropical. Leslie Holdridge defined the subtropical climates as having a mean annual biotemperature between the frost line or critical temperature line, 16 °C to 18 °C (depending on locations in the world) and 24 °C. [1]
Following World War II, Waikīkī beach restoration efforts have occurred every few years. Sand was imported to this artificial beach from the 1920s to the 1970s, once by boat and barge from Southern California. 1,730 feet (530 m) of shoreline was replenished at a cost of $2.4 million following chronic erosion of more than a foot a year. [15]
In the early 1950s the area was promoted as the "Surfers Paradise of Victoria". [3] In 2011 there were 330 persons within the twin towns of Golden Beach and Paradise Beach. [4] In 2020, the Wellington Shire Council decided to acquire the remaining 750 undeveloped lots in a coastal subdivision located between Paradise Beach and The Honeysuckles.