In the northeast of Tasmania extends the Maurouard Beach above a length of nine kilometers. It is part of the St. Helens conservation reserve which is the home of many sea birds like Oyster Catcher, Pacific Gull, Petrel and Fairy Penguin. The Peron Dunes, which adjoin to the beach, are the breeding ground for many of these bird species.

The beach of Reynisfjara is the most famous black sand beach in Iceland and also one of the most famous ones in the world. It is a spot of wild and dramatic beauty, where the roaring of the breaking waves of the Atlantic Ocean hit the coast with their full unleashed force. At each season and at every daylight it is a place of magnificent beauty, which does remind humans that the forces of nature that formed Iceland are never far away.

In the south of the Ivory Coast, on the Gulf of Guinea, lies the small settlement of Assinie-Mafia. In front of the village, separated by a lagoon, lies a 15 kilometer long and up to 1000m wide peninsula, which has one of the most beautiful sand beaches of the Ivory Coast. Since the 16th century, many nations have tried to establish on this beach trading outposts or missions. However, due to climate, diseases and cause of the resistance of local tribes, none of the them did stay very long. Today the beach  is a popular spot for tourists and rich Ivorians.

The last storm of spring has washed driftwood on the Gore Bay Beach, a small beach in the northeast of the southern Island of New Zealand. Dependent on the strength and the direction of the wind the waves, which are now low and calm, can become several meters high, ending in a roaring breaking of the waves.  This makes the beach to a popular spot for surfers and kiters.

About 25km south of the Chilean port of Taltal lies the beach of Caleta Cifuncho. The small fishing village, which joins the bay in the south, gave the strand its name. It is one of those places in Chile, where the extends of the Atacama Desert meets the Pacific Ocean. The cold waters of the Humboldt Stream, which flows directly in front of the shore, forms a relatively cold and dry climate. Only extremely specialized vegetation, like cactaceous and lichen can flourish in this harsh environment.

On the southern side of the tongue of Cape Tribulation lies Mayall beach where two World Heritage Sites meet each other. One is the Great Barrier Reef, which closely follows from here the coastline northwards up to the top of the Cape York Peninsula. The other World Heritage Site is the wet tropics vegetation of the Daintree Rainforest, which is estimated with its age of 135 million years to be one of the oldest rainforests in the world. It is the place where the reef kisses the rainforest.

Sandwich Harbour is the name of a fresh water lagoon along the Namibian Atlantic Coast which is about 40km south of Walvis Bay. Its wetlands, which are protected by the extends of the Namib Dunes, are supplied by springs of brackish water at the foot of those dunes. The reed grown areas around the lagoon is inhabited by large colonies of seabirds like Flamingos, Sea Swallows, Pelicans and Cormorants. Since 1979 the lagoon is part of the Namib-Naukluft National Park.

The Cape Arkona, a 40m high cliff coast consisting of chalkstone and marl, is located in the north of the Baltic Sea island Rügen. Rain, wind and waves permanently erode the cliff and have formed at its foot a narrow beach with the length of a couple of hundred meters which ends on one side at the small village of Vitt. A staircase with 230 steps leads from the beach up to the top of the cliff. However, in 2012, due to the ongoing erosion and rockfalls after storms, the stair was closed. Slowly it will deteriorate with the vanishing of the cliff.

Playa Negra is a beach on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica. Its name is founded by the dark and fine sand, which has its origin in volcanic activity. Costa Rica lies in a very active geological area with many volcanoes and frequent earth quakes. In 2012 an earth quake did lift the sea floor in front of the coast for about two meters. The coral reef which lies only a few meters before the beach was moved partly above the sea level. Today, only a few dark blocks of dead coral rocks are still remaining from this drastic geological event.

About six kilometers north of Greymouth lies the Seventeen Mile Bluff Beach, a small beach along the Tasmanian Sea on the South Island of New Zealand. The origin of the name for the beach is the cliff with the same name and which is crossed today by the State Highway 6 which follows the western coast of New Zealand. Most likely, early British sailors gave the bluff its name when mapping the coast line. On the way to Greymouth other bluffs can be past: The Fourteen-, Twelve- and the Nine Mile Bluff.

Barnyagappul Strand is located on Achill Island, an island with a size of about 150 km² in the northwest of Ireland. In the nineteenth century large amounts of seaweed was cultivated and harvested at this beach. In the beginning, the seaweed was mainly used as fertilizer, later also as a base for the production of iodine, glass, food supplements and cosmetic products. But with increasing industrialization, fertilizers and other substances could be produced more cheaply and easily, so that the cultivation of seaweed became unprofitable. However, today small quantities are cultivated again for natural food and cosmetic products.

Not far from this beach, in 1884, the Flint Cliff Telegraph station was set up, a relay station which was meant to establish a telegraph link between Perth and the city of Roebourne, a mayor center during the Australian gold rush. The far-reaching shallow waters at this coast were perfectly suitable for the delivery of supply goods for the telegraph station as well as for the loading of the wool of the local farmers. A flag pole indicated the ships the exact disembarkation point where to exchange the goods. However, today the name is the only thing that has remained from this historic site.

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