Habitats in the biosphere reserve comprise barrier islands, beach and sand dunes, salt marshes, maritime forests, tidal creeks, fresh and brackish water impoundments and open water areas.
Trailer homes along East Beach Road overlooking the Elizabeth Islands were all moved from that rocky shoreline starting Friday afternoon.
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The tourism industry, the mainstay of the economy in many of the small Eastern Caribbean Islands, is still very much beach orientated.
In many volcanic islands, the land adjacent to the beach is the only flat land available, hence its attractiveness for development.
These buyers sink money into waterfront mansions on elite islands like Indian Creek or newly constructed condo penthouses on South Beach.
Small Islands Voice "Back Chat" members were among students participating in the annual Beach Clean Up, last Friday.
Earlier this month, sunbathers on a Tenerife beach came to the aid of 88 exhausted African migrants - among 205 who reached the islands on three open boats - making headlines around the world.
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The six-room Buccaneer Beach House will open on 4 January at The Buccaneer resort on St Croix in the US Virgin Islands with a combination of one- and two-room villas and cottages.
The tsunami that wrecked northern Japanese fishing villages and small cities also travelled across the Pacific and hit the Hawaiian islands, causing tens of millions of dollars worth of damage to boats, docks, beach homes and led to the closing of the famous Kona Village Resort, a picturesque minimalist string of high-end bungalows on the Kona coast of the Big Island of Hawaii.
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On Perhentian Besar - the larger of the two islands - the main hub of activity ('activity' consisting primarily of lounging on the beach, swimming and watching fishing boats roll by) is a quarter-mile stretch of beach between Abdhul's Chalets and Tuna Bay Island Resort.
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