The Best Coastal Towns and Cities in Australia: Gold Coast Brief History of Australia Australia's history reflects a mixture of indigenous cultures and European colonization. Australia's indigenous people, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, inhabited the continent for more than 65...
Many coastal towns—notably Falmouth, Penzance, and Fowey—are active ports. Cornish clotted creamPlate of scones, berry jam, and Cornish clotted cream.(more) Tin was mined in Cornwall for at least 3,000 years. The industry became so important that in the Middle Ages the Cornish tin miners...
side of the Western Ḥajar. CoastalAl-Bāṭinahprovides opportunities for fishing, as well as irrigatedcultivation, and is therefore more densely populated, with such major towns as Shināṣ,Ṣuḥār, Al-Khābūrah, Al-Maṣnaʿah, and Barkāʾ. Approximately one-fourth of the po...
Almost all of Michigan was once heavily wooded, with genuine prairies or clearings found only in the southwest and on some coastal dunes. Hardwood forests in the southern part of the state were dominated by oak and hickory in drier areas with relatively poor soils, and by maple and beech in...
(797 metres), andMount Soi Dao, which attains a height of 5,471 feet (1,668 metres). The hills, reaching nearly to the sea, create a markedly indented coastline fringed with many islands. With their long stretches of sandy beach, such coastal towns asChon BuriandRayongand some of the ...
Coastal soils are rich and humus-laden, while farther to the west the hills consist mostly of sand and have almost no organic materials. The Piedmont region is predominately clayey, and mountain soils are a combination of clay, sand, and silt, commonly called loam. All of North Carolina’s...
was founded in 1670. Its neat gridiron street planencompassessmall blocks of old-fashioned houses with courtyards. The city also has large numbers of impoverished or homeless people, but its pace of life is much slower than that of Port-au-Prince. The other major towns are Carrefour and Delma...
and resorts include Southsea and Hayling Island. Most larger towns have light industries such as engineering and brewing. Area, administrative county, 1,420 square miles (3,679 square km); geographic county, 1,456 square miles (3,770 square km). Pop. (2001) administrative county, 1,240,10...
states.Constitutingonly a small fraction of the state’s area, the southeast has more than three-fifths of the population. Its share has increased further by the rapid growth of the city ofGold Coastand the towns of the Sunshine Coast, based on tourism, retirement, and discretionary migration...
Galway has the largest Irish- (Gaelic-) speaking population of any Irish county, and the Irish college at Spiddal has facilities for those wishing to study the language. About one-third of the county’s people live in villages and towns, which, apart from the city of Galway, are small. ...