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Key Biscayne
is an island town in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. The population
was 12,344 at the 2010 census. The southern third of
Key Biscayne, which included Cape Florida, was owned by James Deering and,
after his death, by his brother Charles, for 35 years. In 1948 José Manuel leman,
a Cuban politician in exile, bought the Cape Florida property from the Deering
estate. Source
Whitehaven Beach
is a 7 km stretch along Whitsunday Island. The island is accessible by
boat from the mainland tourist ports of Airlie Beach and Shute Harbour, as well
as Hamilton Island. The Whitehaven Beach Ocean Swim is a 2 km open
swimming competition held on the Beach in November each year as part of the
Hamilton Island Triathlon Event. The 2012 event was held on 11 November 2012. Source
Rio de Janeiro is the second largest city in Brazil, the sixth largest city in the Americas and the world's thirty-fifth largest city by population. The population of the city of Rio de Janeiro, occupying an area of 1,182.3 square kilometres, is about 6,000,000. The population of the greater metropolitan area is estimated at 11 to 13.5 million. It was Brazil's capital until 1960, when Brasilia took its place. Residents of the city are known as cariocas. The official song of Rio is "Cidade Maravilhosa", by composer Andre Filho. Source
A beach is a landform
along the shoreline of an ocean, sea, lake, or river. Higher energy waves
breaking in quick succession tend to mobilise sediment from the shallows,
keeping it in suspension where it is prone to be carried along the beach by
longshore currents, or carried out to sea to form longshore bars, especially if
the longshore current meets an outflow from a river or flooding stream. Source
Moonlight State Beach is a state beach in Encinitas, California. Located one fifth of a mile beyond the point where Encinitas Boulevard turns into B Street after it crosses Highway 101, Moonlight Beach has been called the center of recreation and social life in the town. The beach area is appropriate for both children's and adults' recreation. It is popular with both tourists and residents, and it is one of the most visited beaches in Encinitas. This sand beach is used for surfing, swimming, surf fishing, beach volleyball, and bonfires. Source
Venice is a residential, commercial,
and recreational beachfront neighborhood of the city of Los Angeles in the Westside
region of Los Angeles County. Venice, originally called "Venice of
America," was founded by tobacco millionaire Abbot Kinney in 1905 as a
beach resort town, 14 miles west of Los Angeles. He and his partner Francis
Ryan had bought two miles of oceanfront property south of Santa Monica in 1891. Source
