This work is based on an encyclopedia, The World’s Coastline, edited by Eric Bird and Maurice Schwartz and published by Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, in 1985. That encyclopedia divided the world’s coastline into 135 chapters, using a sequence that began with Alaska, proceeded counterclockwise around the Americas to Arctic Canada, then Greenland and Iceland. Another counterclockwise sequence began with Norway, proceeding by way of Europe and the Mediterranean around Africa to India, Southeast Asia, China, Korea and the Pacific and Arctic coasts of Russia. Interruptions were made at appropriate points to include the Great Lakes, the Caspian Sea, and islands such as Britain, Madagascar and Japan. The sequence was completed with the Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, the islands of the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans, and finally Antarctica. There were 129 contributors, and the book had 1,071 + xiii pages.
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Bird, E.C.F. (2003). Introduction. In: Bird, E.C.F. (eds) The World’s Coasts: Online. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48369-6_1
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