: a hill or ridge of sand piled up by the wind
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We wandered over the dunes.
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Georgia’s barrier islands, including St. Simons and Jekyll Island, boast diverse landscapes made up of beaches, marshes, dunes, and maritime forests.
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Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 23 Feb. 2025
Oceanside beaches were wider and lined with dunes before the construction of the Camp Pendleton boat basin in 1942 and then the city’s harbor built in the 1960s.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Feb. 2025
This trip starts on the coast and ends with the dunes in the Mojave Desert, so there’s plenty of sand along the way, as well as big rocks, desert camping, and hiking.
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 19 Feb. 2025
At a compact difference outside Montevideo are 1,000 kilometers of coast, a broad gamut of beaches, desert dunes and extensive rural landscapes.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 16 Feb. 2025
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Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 23 Feb. 2025
Oceanside beaches were wider and lined with dunes before the construction of the Camp Pendleton boat basin in 1942 and then the city’s harbor built in the 1960s.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Feb. 2025
This trip starts on the coast and ends with the dunes in the Mojave Desert, so there’s plenty of sand along the way, as well as big rocks, desert camping, and hiking.
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 19 Feb. 2025
At a compact difference outside Montevideo are 1,000 kilometers of coast, a broad gamut of beaches, desert dunes and extensive rural landscapes.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 16 Feb. 2025
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“Dune.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dune. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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dune
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: a hill or ridge of sand piled up by the wind
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