Most species of marine halfbeaks are known from continental coastlines, but some extend into the western and central Pacific, and one species is endemic to New Zealand.

Massive deltas formed at their mouths, extending the continental coastlines and damming up the oceans.

With one-third of Australia's continental coastline within Western Australia, the cultural associations reflected in the scattering of shipwrecks named "Black Swan" is surprisingly small.

Infragravity waves consist, among others, of long-period oceanic waves generated along continental coastlines by nonlinear wave interactions of storm-forced shoreward-propagating ocean swells.

Except where subduction zones lie adjacent to mountain belts on continental margins, plate boundaries do not coincide with continental coastlines.

Beginning with a raid on two steamship companies, it developed into a pitched battle with a city, a state, and a continental coastline.

Prior to the introduction of satellite-based altimeters, sea level was measured by a network of tide gauges located along continental coastlines and some deep ocean islands.

Tiny Martian colonies forming on an eerie continental coastline.

The continental coastline is long and irregular.

The ADR itself stretched some hundreds of miles to the north, west and south of the country and almost to the continental coastline in the east.