Coastal Dune in Sindu-ri, Taean

A coastal dune is a landform created when sand carried to the beach by ocean currents is pushed up by waves, and then piled into low, hill-like mounds by the action of the prevailing wind. The Sindu-ri Coastal Dune is a sand dune about 3.4 km long and 0.5–1.3 km wide, formed along the coast in the north-western part of the Taean Peninsula. It acts as a buffer zone between the inland area and the coast, and displays landscape features such as wind ripples more typically seen in desert regions. The Sindu-ri Coastal Dune is distributed along the back of the beach at the Sindu-ri coastal inlet, in a position affected by the north-westerly winds that prevail in winter. Because the adjacent sea area consists largely of sand, wide sand tidal flats are exposed at low tide, and sand from the beach is carried inland by the wind, creating conditions favourable to dune formation. The Sindu-ri Coastal Dune has a range of well-developed landforms, including foredunes, dune wetlands, and barchans, crescent-shaped dunes. With its thickets of haedanghwa (rugosa rose) and wind-rippled sand hills, the dune presents a unique landscape and a bird-nesting site not normally seen outside desert regions, and can be characterised as a coastal depositional landform of outstanding ecological and scenic value. As Korea's largest coastal dune system, it preserves the original form of the dunes remarkably well and has great academic value for elucidating dune formation and past environmental conditions.

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Where it is

Region

Taean, Chungnam

Designation

Natural Monument · 천연기념물