Heisaura

Japanese: 平砂浦 - へいさうら

A sandy coast stretching about 7 km between Ito and Ainohama at the southern tip of the Boso Peninsula in southern Chiba Prefecture. It is part of Tateyama City. Inland, sand dunes have developed along the shoreline over a width of 2 to 3 km, but they are highly mobile, and in some places the sand covers the hills behind them up to 80 m above sea level. Damage caused by blown sand by prevailing western and southwestern winds is great, so after World War II, sand-control forests and fences were constructed to stabilize the sand dunes. There is a golf course, a prefectural flower center, and other facilities on the coast, and it is part of Minami-Boso Quasi-National Park.

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Japanese:

千葉県南部，房総半島の南端，伊戸と相浜との間約 7kmにわたる砂浜海岸。館山市に属する。内陸には汀線に沿って2～3kmの幅で砂丘が発達しているが，移動性が強く，背後の標高 80mの丘陵まで砂におおわれているところもある。西や南西の卓越風による飛砂の被害が大きく，第2次世界大戦後は防砂林，防砂垣を整備して，砂丘の固定化をはかった。ゴルフ場，県立フラワーセンターなどがあり，南房総国定公園に属する。

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