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The Southport Spit (officially known as The Spit) is a spit and neighbourhood within the northern end of Main Beach, City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is a permanent sand spit that separates the Southport Broadwater from the Pacific Ocean .
Lighthouse Reef as seen from space. The Great Blue Hole is near the center of the photograph. The Great Blue Hole is a large marine sinkhole off the coast of Belize. It lies near the center of Lighthouse Reef, a small atoll 70 km (43 mi) from the mainland and Belize City. The hole is circular in shape, 318 m (1,043 ft) across and 124 m (407 ...
The spit will continue out into the sea until water pressure (e.g. from a river) becomes too great to allow the sand to deposit. Vegetation may then start to grow on the spit, and the spit may become stable and often fertile. A spit may be considered a special form of a shoal.
Toronto Islands (former spit, now detached), Toronto, Ontario; Leslie Street Spit, man-made spit created as part of new harbour project; Long Point, Ontario; Point Pelee, Ontario on Lake Erie; Rondeau Provincial Park - a crescentric sand spit on Lake Erie; Blackie Spit (east section of the Crescent Beach), South Surrey, British Columbia
In the northeast of the Azov Sea, extending from the spit's namesake village of Bilosaraiska Spit Sea of Azov: 44.45 km 2 (17.16 sq mi) 64] [65] Byriuchyi Island [q] Бирючий Острів: Kherson: In the northwest of the Azov Sea, extending from Fedotova Spit Sea of Azov: 27.92 km 2 (10.78 sq mi)
The brown mound, 34m wide and 32m long, is a communal organism comprising nearly one billion animals called polyps that make up a larger structure “about the size of a cathedral”, according to ...
The southern part of the spit viewed from Arabat Fortress Aerial view of the spit between the Syvash lagoons (left) and Sea of Azov (right). The Arabat Spit (Ukrainian: Арабатська коса; Russian: Арабатская коса; Crimean Tatar: Arabat beli) or Arabat Arrow is a barrier spit that separates the large, shallow, salty Syvash lagoons from the Sea of Azov.
The Curonian Spit is the second longest spit in the world, after the 110-km long Arabat Spit in the Sea of Azov. The park follows the spit from the Sambian Peninsula in the south to the border with Lithuania about 40 km north; its width varies from 0.4 to 4 km. [3] The water in the lagoon averages 3.7 meters in depth, and the water level of the ...