swap_horiz Blakeney Point Alternatives

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Orford Ness

Orford Ness is the largest shingle spit in Europe, located in Suffolk, England, and was used as a classified military te...

England Suffolk Spit Shingle

8.5 Great

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Spurn Head

Spurn Head is a narrow sand and shingle spit at the mouth of the Humber estuary in East Yorkshire, England, stretching r...

England Coastal Spit Humber

8.1 Great

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Scolt Head

Scolt Head is a barrier island off the north Norfolk coast, England, designated a National Nature Reserve and managed fo...

England Norfolk Barrier Spit

8.1 Great

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Dungeness

Dungeness is a large shingle foreland in Kent, England, one of the largest expanses of shingle in the world, containing...

England Kent Shingle Foreland

8.1 Great

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Chatham Bars

Chatham Bars is a shifting system of offshore shoals at the elbow of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, notorious for shipwrecks a...

Coastal Tidal Massachusetts Cape Cod

7.9 Good

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Sandbanks

Narrow sand peninsula enclosing Poole Harbour in Dorset, England, internationally noted for exceptionally high residenti...

England Coastal Spit Poole

7.7 Good

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Koresand

A tidal sandbank in the Danish Wadden Sea near the island of Rømø, lying within the Wadden Sea National Park and providi...

Coastal Denmark Tidal Sandbank

7.7 Good

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Nauset Spit

Located on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, Nauset Spit is a constantly shifting sandbar that separates the Atlantic Ocean fro...

USA Dynamic Atlantic Spit

7.6 Good

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Ninety Mile Beach Sandbar

The Ninety Mile Beach Sandbar in Victoria, Australia, is a vast coastal barrier separating the Gippsland Lakes from the...

New Zealand Remote Pacific Spit

7.6 Good

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Grenen (Skagen)

Grenen is a sandy spit near Skagen in Denmark, distinguished as the northernmost point of the country where the Skagerra...

Denmark Tourism Spit Skagen

7.5 Good

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Cape Henlopen Spit

Cape Henlopen Spit is a dynamic geographical feature in Delaware, USA, notable for its strategic location at the entranc...

USA Delaware Atlantic Spit

7.5 Good

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Scolt Head Island sandbar

Scolt Head Island sandbar is a dynamic barrier feature off the north Norfolk coast, England, integral to the island's na...

England Coastal Norfolk Barrier

7.5 Good

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Skagen Odde

Skagen Odde is a prominent sand spit in northern Denmark, notable for continually growing eastward through natural wave...

Denmark Scenic Tidal Spit

7.2 Good

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Willoughby Spit

Willoughby Spit is a peninsula in Virginia, USA, notable for its dramatic creation during the massive Chesapeake-Potomac...

USA Tidal Chesapeake Spit

7.0 Good

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Napatree Point Sandbar

Napatree Point Sandbar is a coastal feature in Rhode Island, USA, notable for forming a barrier spit that was violently...

USA Atlantic Spit Rhode Island

7.0 Good

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Scroby Sands

Offshore sandbank roughly 3 km east of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, now hosting the Scroby Sands offshore wind farm...

Norfolk Tidal Offshore North Sea

6.7 Fair

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Maplin Sand

Large tidal sandbank in the outer Thames Estuary, Essex, England, famously proposed in the early 1970s as a potential si...

Coastal Essex Tidal Thames

6.7 Fair

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Haisborough Sand

Dangerous offshore sandbank off the Norfolk coast, England, responsible for centuries of shipwrecks and historically mar...

Norfolk Tidal Offshore North Sea

6.6 Fair

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Dudgeon Shoal

A shoal off the Norfolk coast in the southern North Sea near the Dudgeon area, which lent its name to the Dudgeon offsho...

Norfolk Tidal Offshore North Sea

6.3 Fair

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Maplin Spit

A sandbank in the outer Thames Estuary off Foulness Island, Essex, adjacent to Maplin Sands where construction of a thir...

Essex Tidal Spit Thames

6.2 Fair