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- Site 1 was in a backshore area leading to sea cliffs.
- The beach crest is at risk of being eroded ( breached ), which will result in the flooding of the backshore areas.
- At the Weroona Bay dunes backshore low cobble ridges occur, possibly formerly covered by white Holocene sands that are now immediately inland.
- According to the classification scheme of Zenkovich, As the coastline becomes eroded the hapua have been'rolling back'by eroding the backshore to move landwards.
- But those same winds that whip the island serve as a backshore snow removal service, sweeping it off Seashore Avenue and creating sculpted drifts leeward of the roadway.
- Prior to the construction of the paved road behind the dunes running the length of the backshore, the beach was primarily used as a path to and from George Island which is part of the LaHave Islands.
- Although the bridge was replaced the following year, a traveler using it still had to traverse several miles over a sand route, which, along with the backshore route, would occasionally be washed out by storms.
- Sediment removed from the backshore is predominantly moved offshore rather than along shore as only large southerly storm waves and their subsequent swash, which usually flow perpendicular to the beach are able to reach this area ( Kirk, 1967 ).
- Local legend has it that Longfellow was inspired to compose " The Wreck of the Hesperus " after seeing the wreck of the schooner Helen Eliza, which sank off Peaks'backshore in 1869 when " the cruel rocks . . . gored " her.
- Until the late 19th century, no road led to Provincetown the only land route connecting the village to points back toward the mainland was along a thin stretch of beach along the shore to the north ( known locally as the " backshore " ).
- Until the late 19th century, there was not a single road leading in or out of Provincetown the only land route connecting Provincetown to points beyond was along a thin stretch of beach along the shore to the north ( locally called the " backshore " ).
- In summer, navigating the island by car is like dividing the waters in a sea of slow-wheeling bicyclists and the ocean-washed rocks on the island's Atlantic " backshore " are swarmed by visitors from the vague but vast outland realm known in Maine-speak as " Away ."
- Lynch said that most outsiders listen in disbelief when she tells them how much she also enjoys the winters here on a Maine island where the cold winds that buffet the backshore blow across the open Atlantic all the way from Europe . " It's brisk, all right, " she said with classic Yankee understatement.
- The once-glamorous waterfront fell into disrepair during World War I, after which the entire island went into a long decline, according to a local real estate agent, Kirk Goodhue . " Up to that time, most homes were built along the bay side, " he said . " No one saw any reason for building on the backshore; people wanted to be closer to the ferry ."