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Boulders Beach is a sheltered beach made up of inlets between granite boulders, from which the name originated. It is located on the Cape Peninsula, in Simon's Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It is also commonly known as Boulders Bay. [1] It is a popular tourist spot because of a colony of African penguins which settled there ...
The beach was destroyed by an earthquake and tsunami in 1996; the beach and the surrounding village has been rebuilt. [133] [134] Marau Beach [134] Parai Beach. The beach contains a World War II Monument built by the Japanese government. [133] Warsa Beach [134] Hamadi Beach, Jayapura. The beach is the site of a US amphibious landing on April 22 ...
African penguins (Spheniscus demersus) on Boulders Beach. Boulders Beach is located a few kilometres to the south of Simon's Town, in the direction of Miller's Point. Here small coves and beaches are interspersed between boulders of Cape granite. There has been a colony of African penguins at Boulders Beach since 1982. [5]
The Moeraki Boulders (officially Moeraki Boulders / Kaihinaki) are unusually large spherical boulders lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand between Moeraki and Hampden. They occur scattered either as isolated or clusters of boulders within a stretch of beach where they have been protected in a ...
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Beachgoers c. 1910. Beachgoing or beach tourism is the cultural phenomenon of travelling to an ocean beach for leisure or vacation.. The practice developed from medically-prescribed sea-bathing by British physicians in the 17th and 18th centuries and spread throughout Europe and European colonies.
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