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Towards Nairn, the beach is home to a wintering population of pale-bellied brant geese, one of only two in Scotland. [5] The birds belong to the Svalbard population. In 1888 and 1889, the dunes hosted breeding pairs of Pallas's sandgrouse, the only time this has ever been recorded in Scotland. [6]
Nairn (/ ˈ n ɛər n /; Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Narann) is a town and former royal burgh in the Highland Council area of Scotland.It is an ancient fishing port and market town around 17 miles (27 km) east of Inverness, at the point where the River Nairn enters the Moray Firth.
Southern Ocean Lodge: Kangaroo Island, Australia. Twenty-five luxurious suites sit atop the limestone cliffs of Kangaroo Island, each immersing guests in the spectacular landscape.
Secret Beach is quite large by Hawaiian standards, approximately 3000 feet long and 75 feet wide. [1] Its surface is predominantly covered with fine white sand and with outcrops of black lava rock. The beach’s seclusion and beauty are further enhanced by the cliff backdrop and the brilliant turquoise-colored ocean water in the foreground.
Narin (Irish: An Fhearthainn), [1] also Naran, is a small seaside village and townland in the parish of Ardara on the southwest coast of County Donegal, Ireland.The topography is rough rolling bogland and craggy low hills.
The Moray and Nairn Coast is a protected wetland site on the southern shore of the Moray Firth, in the west of Scotland. A total of 2,412 hectares comprises two areas: intertidal flats, saltmarsh and sand dunes at Findhorn Bay and Culbin Bar, and alluvial deposits and woodland of the lower River Spey and Spey Bay .
Indigenous people have inhabited the Lake Huron north shore and Manitoulin area for millennia, [4] and historically used the nearby Spanish (Skiminitigan in Ojibwe) and Vermilion rivers as transportation and economic corridors which connected Lake Huron's North Channel with the interior to the north (through the Spanish) and through the river system around Lake Wanapitei, ultimately to the ...
Nain (Inuit language: Nunainguk) is the northernmost permanent settlement in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, within the Nunatsiavut region, located about 370 km (230 mi) by air from Happy Valley-Goose Bay.