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Bete Grise (from the French Bête grise, "Gray Beast") is a nature preserve on Keweenaw Peninsula, in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, beach and bay on Lake Superior. It is located in Grant Township south of the community of Bete Grise. Local legend holds that the sand of the beach "sings".
Singing sand, also called whistling sand, barking sand, booming sand or singing dune, is sand that produces sound. The sound emission may be caused by wind passing over dunes or by walking on the sand. Certain conditions have to come together to create singing sand: The sand grains have to be round and between 0.1 and 0.5 mm in diameter.
In November 2009, she recorded a new song, "Singing Sands", for CBC Radio 2's Great Canadian Song Quest. In 2014 MacLellan released her first independent record since signing with True North, The Raven's Sun. The record was recorded in Woodstock, New York at Hidden Quarry Studio, Engineered by Danny Blume, and produced by MacLellan's long-time ...
He does break it out of interest, however, in order to visit a Hebridean island that is supposed to be distinguished by the 'singing sands' that give the book its title. As the symptoms of stress begin to disappear in the book's second half, Grant returns to London, unsatisfied with the inquest's verdict of death by misadventure. A newspaper ...
Khongoryn Els sand dunes. Mongolia has three types of deserts, and some of it has enough grass for livestock to graze, but the Khongoryn Els, in the extreme south of the Gobi Desert, has a huge range of sand dunes – 6–12 kilometres (3.7–7.5 mi) wide, 100 kilometres (62 mi) long (180 kilometres (110 mi) is also mentioned [5]) [6] and rising to a height of 80 metres (260 ft) (a maximum ...
The community is located on the north side of Bete Grise Bay. The Mendota Canal cuts the bay in half, which allows travel from Lac La Belle to Lake Superior. There is a white sand beach nearly 1 mile (1.6 km) long on either side of the canal. [3] Most of the beach is public land, with the Bete Grise Nature Preserve occupying the land south of ...
Basin Head is a cape in Lot 47, Kings County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.. Extending into the Northumberland Strait, its geographic coordinates are 46'23"N, 62'07"W. . Basin Head is home to Basin Head Provincial Park, which hosts a fisheries museum and a popular beach, Singing Sands Beach, which was on the short list but was not named one of the Seven Wonders of Canada.
"The Singing Sands of Alamosa" (January 19, 1942) Bert Reisfeld, Kim Gannon: Dick McIntire and His Harmony Hawaiians: 3:08: 6. "I'm Drifting Back to Dreamland" (January 19, 1942) Charles F. Harrison, Jack Sadler, Florence Charlesworth: Dick McIntire and His Harmony Hawaiians: 2:47