This is the so-called gold coast, stretching across Long Island bay, where financiers and many, many hedge fund mangers build homes.
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One of the finest and best-preserved Gold Coast mansions open to visitors is the stunningly beautiful Westbury House at Old Westbury Gardens.
The 20, 500 hectare park has more than 160km of hiking trails, including the famous 24km-long Border Trail and the 54km-long Gold Coast Hinterland Great Walk.
Even though the estate is located in Old Westbury, about 10 miles from Port Washington or Great Neck, the house provides a fabulous example of the jaw-dropping Gold Coast decadence that Fitzgerald wrote about.
The Democratic base is centralized in the so-called "Gold Coast" communities of West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale (Broward County), Miami (Dade County), and in both Tallahassee and the minority communities of the panhandle.
The call-up of the 24-year-old New Zealand Warrior is one of five changes made by coach Stephen Kearney to the side which beat Papua New Guinea 48-6 on the Gold Coast last Saturday.
The former England full-back signed for NRL side Gold Coast Titans from Leeds after suffering a serious knee injury in May 2006.
Today, "gold coast" is back in vogue and evokes an old-world elegance that attracts high-end buyers, Ms. Butler says.
His life has been shaped by his upbringing -- a time when Ghana (then Gold Coast) was struggling for independence from colonial ruler Britain.
But in present-day Ghana, then called the Gold Coast, there were over 30 more slave forts, built and maintained by almost all of the European trading powers of the day: the Swedes, Danes, French, British, Dutch and Portuguese.
At the eastern edge of the Gold Coast, about 25 miles from Great Neck, this 24-room Spanish-style estate was home to William K Vanderbilt II, great-grandson of the famed railroad industrialist Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Ireland will meet Fiji, who finished top of Group Two, on the Gold Coast next Monday (0855 GMT KO), with a place in the semi-finals at stake.
It is the world's second-largest cocoa producer, after Ivory Coast, and the continent's second biggest gold miner, after South Africa, according to the United Nations.
The world's second-largest cocoa producer after neighboring Ivory Coast, it is also the continent's biggest gold miner after South Africa, according to the United Nations.
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