Coastal management in australia
As Australia is the biggest island on Earth, it possesses an enormous continuous coastline, and it stretches for about 60,000km. Also as might know, the centre of Australia is mostly dessert, therefore two-thirds of the population live in the towns and cities that have been built to take advantage of many benefits the coastline brings. Coastal management means to use or protect the coastal environment such as ecosystem.
Starategies
<- Cairns waterfront
They built up a southern wall and it blocked the movement of sand, which built out the adjacent Letitia Spit, in the process trapping millions of cubic metres of sand and preventing it from moving across the border and along the Gold Coast beaches.
However, as the sand supply depleted, combined with a series of cyclones in 1967, 8 million cubic metres of sand eroded from the beaches resulting a disaster, threatening the backing Gold Coast roads, houses, and hotels.
They built up a southern wall and it blocked the movement of sand, which built out the adjacent Letitia Spit, in the process trapping millions of cubic metres of sand and preventing it from moving across the border and along the Gold Coast beaches.
However, as the sand supply depleted, combined with a series of cyclones in 1967, 8 million cubic metres of sand eroded from the beaches resulting a disaster, threatening the backing Gold Coast roads, houses, and hotels.
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<- Bruns river mouth
In 1972 at Belongil Spit with car bodies dumped to try to stop the erosion of sand. however in 1974, the storm, estimated as a 1:200 year event, destroyed the harbour side Manly pier and resulted in loss and damage of property and roads being cut at several points along the Sydney and south coast.
In 1972 at Belongil Spit with car bodies dumped to try to stop the erosion of sand. however in 1974, the storm, estimated as a 1:200 year event, destroyed the harbour side Manly pier and resulted in loss and damage of property and roads being cut at several points along the Sydney and south coast.
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<- Wamberal Beach