Located on the Big Island of Hawaii, the beach gets its rare color from eroded black sand particles that were created by volcanic lava flowing into the ocean and then cooling.

该海滩位于夏威夷大岛，其罕见的颜色，由火山熔岩流进海里冷却形成的黑色沙粒腐蚀而成。

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Head less than a mile west from the city centre and you reach a red and white lighthouse, a lava-strewn beach and a windswept golf course.

BBC: Mini guide to excursions from Reykjavik

On the beach of an island in the Pacific, an island with black sand, hardened black lava, and nothing green growing but cactus, a British mariner with a knife in his hand was crouching before a giant tortoise.

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