Shoreline: intersection of a specific water height with the shore or beach, e.g. the high water shoreline is the intersection of the high water mark with the shore or beach.

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In 1938 a hurricane flattened many homes on New York's Long Island, and waves as high as 50 feet pounded the shoreline all the way to Massachusetts.

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The octagonal-shaped, 1, 200 square-foot structure rests on a 20-foot-high pedestal only a few feet from the shoreline.

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The village of Olymbos looks precarious at best, perched high on a mountaintop above the plunging rocky shoreline of the Aegean Sea.

BBC: The lost world of Olymbos

The weather service painted a vivid picture in its warning of the destruction it expects: a towering wall of water -- possibly up to 22 feet high -- crashing over the Galveston Bay shoreline as the brunt of Ike comes ashore.

CNN: Last time 'certain death' was warned: Katrina

The only way to get here, other than by boat, is to hike 9 miles of shoreline serrated by cliffs and impassable at high tide.

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