The six-kilometres finger of sand juts out into the Humber Estuary from the Holderness coast.

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He came out weakly from the sand on the 15th and had to make a 6-footer to escape with bogey.

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To get at deeper deposits engineers inject steam via pipes to heat the bitumen and separate it from the sand so it can be sucked out.

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We paddle through a channel with a white sand bottom and walls of coral, spotting lobster antennae poking out from crevices.

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To eat the wheat, the monkeys would have to pick out the grains one by one from thousands of particles of sand.

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The sand has been dredged by boat from a sandbank 20 miles (32km) out to sea, then pumped onto Colwyn Bay beach through a pipeline.

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These oceans, and the fish that live there, are full of plastic, reduced to confetti, incessant from shore to shore, spread out like a spoonful of sand across a football field, over two-thirds of the Earth's surface.

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Wipe out the idea of a beach getaway spent just gazing at waves from the sand.

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"He'd be up from sunup to well after 10, sometimes past midnight out there moving sand, " Creel said of the early construction of the bunker.

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She did not tell anyone that she spent much of her time looking out at the Pacific from empty beaches, some of them narrow with coarse sand, though farther north many of the beaches were rocky, desolate in the falling dusk, when seagulls circled hungrily and waves deposited dead seaweed.

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