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The coastline of Ireland is 7,524 kilometres (4,675 mi) long. [55] As the continental shelf extends far to the west and southwest, the larger of the two jurisdictions on the island has extensive seabed claims, exceeding 880,000 square kilometres (340,000 sq mi), more than 10 times the land area.
The coastline paradox states that a coastline does not have a well-defined length. Measurements of the length of a coastline behave like a fractal, being different at different scale intervals (distance between points on the coastline at which measurements are taken). The smaller the scale interval (meaning the more detailed the measurement ...
Counties shaded green have no coastline. This is a list of Irish counties ranked by the length of their coastline. Ireland is an island in the north Atlantic Ocean, and is surrounded on all sides by the Atlantic and two of its local seas, the Celtic Sea off the island's south coast and the Irish Sea off its east coast. Seventeen counties have ...
The 32 traditional counties of Ireland. Rank County Area (km 2) Density (/ km 2) Traditional province; 1 Cork: 7,508 [1] 77.8 ... List of Irish counties by coastline;
Ireland is an island surrounded by water, [1] with a 7,500 kilometres (4,700 mi) coastline. [2] This list catalogues about 400 of the coastal landforms of the island including bays, estuaries, harbours, headlands, and many others.
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Thirty 90-metre (300 ft) 3 MW turbines are operating in a wind farm 7 km (4.3 mi) the coast of Walney Island. [55] Turbines are proposed to be erected off the coast of Clogherhead (at the planned Oriel Wind Farm) [56] The Warmley Extension 14 kilometres (9 mi) west of Walney Island off the coast of Cumbria. As of 2018, it is the largest on Earth.
Leitrim has a hilly and mountainous landscape in its northwest and is relatively flat in the southeast, each separated from the other by Lough Allen in the middle of the county. Leitrim has the shortest length of coastline of any Irish county that touches the sea. At Tullaghan, the coastline is only 4.7 kilometres (2.9 mi) long. [7]