Even the lovers of cold and snow took their pilgrimage - a holiday, they probably called it - to tropical shores.

THAT'S unfortunate for people who want to watch television at the beach - despite the company's ads, which depict a televised football game seen clearly against the backdrop of a tropical shore.

Mangroves grow on 1/3 of tropical shores.

Compared to the photogenic beauty of the standard vacation panorama (snow-capped mountains, palm trees on a tropical shore), prairies appear not only unkempt but also monotonous.

Speciation and diversity on tropical rocky shores: a global phylogeny of snails of the genus Echinolittorina.

The mangrove swamps are encountered along tropical shores and are characterized by tree vegetation, while salt marshes are mostly found in temperate zones and are mostly grass ecosystems.

He confronted savages on tropical shores, quelled mutinies on the high seas, and in a small boat upon the ocean kept up the hearts of despairing men.

Their flight took them to one of the larger Pacific islands, and they soon showed their papers again to get a couple of rooms in a resort hotel on a sultry tropical shore.

Most species grow near tropical and subtropical shores below the low-tide mark.

Manta rays are one of the most easily identified fish off tropical shores, owing to their large, triangular pectoral 'wings' that can span up to nearly 7m.