Sentence examples for vast coastline from inspiring English sources

How to capture the beauty and majesty of Australia's astonishing, vast coastline?

A recent deal between Mauritania and China makes it hard to reduce the catch even if it is unsustainable.Meanwhile the human footprint along Africa's vast coastline is growing.

· Gill Nightingale, from mega-club Cream After years of civil war and isolation, Mozambique is beginning to draw in tourists looking to explore its vast coastline and sparsely inhabited tropical islands.

The Sindhurakshak is one of 10 Russian-made Kilo-class submarines that India has as part of its front-line maritime defenses, but only six of India's submarines are operational at any given time — far fewer than are needed to protect the nation's vast coastline.

But while environment groups have welcomed the plan – which increases the number of marine reserves in five main zones surrounding Australia from 27 to 60 – it's unclear how effective it will be in protecting the unique mix of sharks, turtles, dugongs, corals and other life found beyond the arid continent's vast coastline.

Coast Australia (BBC 1) saw the incredibly likeable Neil Oliver (if Marty Pellow played William Wallace in Braveheart: The Musical) returning to the shores of the "sunburnt country" as Dorothea Mackellar describes it, because he only really got halfway round that vast coastline in the first series.

Source: SIPRI databases Geography Both Australia and Indonesia are large island nations with vast coastlines.

With our vast coastlines, the United States controls 2.8 billion acres of ocean, more than any country on earth, yet more than 90percentt of our seafood is imported.

As in 1979, there is mounting pressure on recipient countries -- Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia -- to accept what are estimated to be 25,000 refugees at sea or informally disembarked in many places along these countries' vast coastlines.

With its vast, uninhabited coastline, mainland Australia would seem to have ample room to take over the task itself.

But over the past 11 days, 1,500 people have turned up along the vast northern coastline, and with reports that another 900 are on their way, Australians appear to back the government's stance.