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The Tabula Rogeriana, drawn by al-Idrisi in 1154 The Blue Marble photograph in its original orientation [1]. South-up map orientation is the orientation of a map with south up, at the top of the map, amounting to a 180-degree rotation of the map from the standard convention of north-up.
A ShoreZone imaging and mapping prototype was originally developed by Dr. Ed Owens and demonstrated on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia in 1979. [4] A decade of further development resulted in the first protocols for the Physical Shore-zone Mapping System published by the British Columbia Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy. [5]
Plots of land were sold, and in 1960 construction was started on the North Shore Beach & Yacht Club (designed by Albert Frey) and the North Shore Motel. Both opened in 1962, and North Shore's marina was one of the largest in Southern California. For several years, North Shore was a popular place for celebrities like the Beach Boys and Jerry ...
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Assateague Island National Seashore is a unit of the National Park Service system of the U.S. Department of the Interior.Located on the East Coast along the Atlantic Ocean in Maryland and Virginia, Assateague Island is the largest natural barrier island ecosystem in the Middle Atlantic states region that remains predominantly unaffected by human development.
The Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management limits its definition of the South Shore to the municipalities between Boston Harbor and Cape Cod, which includes Atlantic coastal and coastal watershed areas "from the three-mile (5 km) limit of the state territorial sea to 100 feet (30 m) beyond the first major land transportation route encountered (a road, highway, rail line, etc.)". [4]
The REAL rules call for higher building heights in coastal flood zones — an additional 5 feet above the Federal Emergency Management Agency's 100-year flood elevation — to account for rising ...
There is a general pattern where most of these faults partition a series of basins and uplifts, each about 20 km wide. From the north these are (see the map at right): Devils Mountain Fault zone (including Strawberry Point and Utsalady Point faults) ∪ Everett Basin. Southern Whidbey Island Fault (SWIF) ∩ "Uplift of unknown origin" (Port Ludlow)