The Coastal South includes the land and offshore islands along the Coast of the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico from Virginia southward and westward to south Texas. "Culturally the coastal South is a pulsating and diverse mixing zone of people from Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and other parts of Latin America as well as other parts of the world." (Hardwick, pg. 189) This contributes to its current cosmopolitan outlook, economy, resorts, and beaches. Honolulu Oahu is the third largest Hawaiian island with 180 km of general coastline that contours a highly irregular shape that was greatly influenced by two massive landslides, that removed ~1/3 of the northeastern portion of the island and aproximately 1/2 of the western side. Today, the shape of Oahu is constrained by two great mountain ranges that are the eroded remnants of two separate shields truncated by the prodigious slides.Oahu is the most densely populated Hawaiian island. The combination of a dense population, government, and an industry dedicated to tourism, results in heavy use of the islands shorelines.
Resource
http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/coasts/publications/hawaiiCoastline/oahu.html
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