Praia do Cassino Beach, Brazil Known to be the longest beach in the world, this shoreline stretches for 157-miles from Rio Grande, Brazil all the way to the border with Uruguay.
Marina beach in Chennai along the Bay of Bengal is India's longest and world's second longest beach. This predominantly sandy of nearly 12 kilometers extends from Beasant Nagar in the south to Fort St. George in the north.
The Coorong – Australia's longest beach
The Coorong, located from Cape Jaffa to the Murray Mouth, is the longest continuous beach in Australia at 194 km.
Stretching a remarkable length of more than 120km, Cox's Bazar is the longest natural sea beach in the world and was nominated as one of the “New 7 Wonders of Nature” in 2008. The name Cox's Bazar was derived from its founder, Captain Hiram Cox, who founded the beach in 1798.
While technically true, Long Beach is actually the world's longest drivable beach, the longest beach on a Peninsula, and the longest beach in the United States, but it takes third place when it comes to the longest beaches in the world.
Coastline: Canada's coastline is the world's longest, measuring 243,042 km (includes the mainland coast and the coasts of offshore islands).
The Hyams Beach is a beautiful Jervis Bay beach, located in New South Wales, Australia. According to the Guinness World Record, it boasts the whitest sand on our entire planet.
Australia has almost 12,000 beaches along its 60,000km (37,282mi) coastline. If you visited one per day, it would take more than 32 years to see them all.
Whitehaven Beach // Queensland
Know for its beautiful 7 km stretch of white sand and crystal clear turquoise waters, Whitehaven Beach is without doubt of of Australia's finest. It is located on Whitsunday Island, part of a group of islands just of the tropical Queensland coast.
1. Mariana Trench. The Marina Trench is the deepest part of the Earth's surface in the western Pacific Ocean.
Playa de Gulpiyuri is a flooded sinkhole with an inland beach located near Llanes, in Asturias Northern Spain, around 100 m from the Cantabrian Sea. It is the shortest beach in the world.
At just over 150 feet long, Gulpiyuri is the smallest known beach in the world.
Fun Fact 1: The Length of Bondi Beach
The crescent-shaped Bondi Beach measures about one kilometre or 0.62 miles long. It has an area of 1.22 square kilometres or 0.5 square miles. It is a fairly vast beach but it can still get crowded during the summer months.
Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh is the world's longest natural sea beach, and a popular tourist destination in the country.
The Australian coastline stretches over a distance of more than 36,000 kilometres.
NOBODY OWNS THE BEACH — EXCEPT THE CROWN
All of the beaches in Australia are technically Crown land, meaning they're for public use. As a general rule of thumb, any land that high tide touches — known as the high water mark — is Crown Land.
The fracture zone has a maximum depth of 7019 m in the Dortrecht Deep some 1400 km west of the Southwest WA coast. Within the Australian Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) the most eastern part is due south of the Naturaliste Plateau and is ~6200 m deep making it the deepest point off the Australian mainland.
Throughout the 1800s it was illegal to swim at Sydney beaches during the day. This was because people believed it was wrong to be seen in little or no clothing in public spaces. People could swim only in the early morning and late evening, and men and women could never bathe together.
Whitehaven Beach, Queensland
This beach is recognized as the best beach in Australia. With pure-white feather-soft sand and crystal-clear waters, this beach well deserves the recognition. Whitehaven Beach offers hidden caves, blue lagoon, and scenic viewpoints.
Fraser Island and Cape Tribulation have been named two of the most dangerous beaches in the world. These beaches live up to Australia's reputation for... more.
Kazakhstan is the world's largest landlocked country while Ethiopia is the world's most populous landlocked country.
Website worldatlas.com claims that out of all countries on the planet, Sweden has the most islands with 221,800, the majority of which are uninhabited. Even the capital of Stockholm is built across a 14-island archipelago with more than 50 bridges.