Stunning photographs celebrate the world’s most beautiful coasts

From remote tropical islands to volcanic peninsulas and windswept beaches: Stunning photographs celebrate the world’s most beautiful coasts

• These images are featured in a new coffee table book called Coast, published by Amber Books
• The tome, written by David Ross, explores coastlines in all climates and conditions around the globe 
• Images include fjord-like coastscapes in Oman, Bamburgh Castle in the UK and jaw-dropping rock formations

The Earth has an incredible amount of coastline – and some of it is truly spectacular, as these images show.

They are from a new book called Coast, which celebrates the places where the land meets the sea, from Northumberland in the north of England to New Zealand via Florida.

They capture the world’s breathtaking shores, spanning beaches, islands, oceans, mountains, peninsulas, cliffs and more, underscoring that coastlines around the world are as varied as the climates and conditions they have evolved from.

Author David Ross says: ‘Coastlines give hints of the Earth’s history long before life emerged. We know now that is not a coincidence: they once formed part of a giant continent which existed before the Atlantic Ocean was formed.  

‘Perhaps the eternal attraction of coastal scenery lies partly in that sense of uncertainty: even the most placid sandy beach is a frontier between the security of dry land and the great unknown.’

Here MailOnline Travel presents a selection of images from the book.

‘Only visible from above, this phenomenon looks like water pouring downwards below the sea’s surface,’ says Mr Ross of Le Morne peninsula in Mauritius (above). ‘In fact it is sand washed by currents off the island’s coastal shelf and falling into the depths of the Indian Ocean’

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