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The coastline of Ireland is 7,524 kilometres (4,675 mi) long. [55] As the continental shelf extends far to the west and southwest, the larger of the two jurisdictions on the island has extensive seabed claims, exceeding 880,000 square kilometres (340,000 sq mi), more than 10 times the land area.
Ireland is an island surrounded by water, [1] with a 7,500 kilometres (4,700 mi) coastline. [2] This list catalogues about 400 of the coastal landforms of the island including bays, estuaries, harbours, headlands, and many others.
The study mapped the low-tide coastline of Ireland and its offshore islands using a Geographic information system. The study breaks down the coastline of each county on the island of Ireland into mainland and offshore lengths, and is one of the most cited studies on Irish coastal length. [2] [3] [4]
Dún Briste (English: Dun Briste Sea Stack) is a natural sea stack or pilaster - in geomorphology called stack - that was formed in Ireland during the Carboniferous period, possibly Mississippian, approximately 350 million years ago.
The coastline paradox states that a coastline does not have a well-defined length. Measurements of the length of a coastline behave like a fractal, being different at different scale intervals (distance between points on the coastline at which measurements are taken). The smaller the scale interval (meaning the more detailed the measurement ...
Donegal boasts the longest mainland coastline of any county in Ireland, and has either the longest or third longest total coastline (including islands), depending on how it is measured. Estimates of the length of the coastline range from less than 1,000 km (621 mi) to 1,235 km (767 mi). [ 23 ]
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