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Marine life at the coast 
This site is intended to show the beauty of marine sites.
Learn more about marine biology, explore far away coasts and dive into some ancient books. Enjoy the fascinating marine life at worlds shores.
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| Click your coast
Coasts and reefs are nice to explore. In most cases you'll find a fascinating marine life.
Unfortunately we can just visit a fraction of the coasts of the world. How do al that other sites look like? We'll never know, unless we show each other.
Showing the beauty of marine life may motivate others to support protection of our seas.
I hope this site will grow large enough to get more attention to our vulnerable coasts and reefs.
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| Click on a red spot on the map to find out more about the coast
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Become an Editor!
Show your photos and tell others about your favorite coasts!
So that everyone can get an impression of the shape and marine life of the coast you like to visit.
You can also add some hyperlinks to inform us further.
Learn more on being an editor.
Becoming an editor is simple, just go to the new editor page.
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Ecology of coasts
This site not only shows coasts and their marine life but also gives some ecological backgrounds.
See how the physical enviroment determines the occurence of coastal communities on a worldwide scale.
Also information is provided about each community apart.
Covered subjects are are distribution, biodiversity, feeding, how the community influences the enviroment and threats.
I hope the information will help you to better understand what you see so that you'll enjoy looking around even more.
Study the ecology of coasts
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The onset of marine biology: timeline before Linnaeus
The oldest works about marine biology are relatively unknown.
Because they came out before the classification by Linnaeus they are neglected by science.
It's a pity, they are interesting to read and to beautiful illustrated to forget.
Also these works still have their value as we continue to build on their knowledge.
These pages give an introduction to these old marine biology works and provide links to most of them.
Marine biology timeline before Linnaeus
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| Adriaen Coenen
The richness of an 16-th century enthusiast.
The Dutch fish-auctioneer and official beachcomber Adriaen Coenen wrote and painted beautiful hand painted books on marine species.
With his knowledge of both marine species and the modern literature of his time he produced unique documents that give insight in the 16-th century points of view.
In rich illustrated books he combined early scientific knowledge with medieval fantasies in a most natural way.
Viscboeck and Walvisboeck 1581 and 1587
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| Baster, Slabber and Bomme
An outburst of Dutch marine biology in the 18th century.
In the 18th century the Dutch physician Job Baster studied marine life in the Oosterschelde near Zierikzee in the south of Holland.
His work resulted in a book with fine illustrations of marine animals and their microscopic details.
His example was soon followed by the merchant Leendert Bomme and the civil servant Martinus Slabber.
On this site you can look at the illustrations made by Baster and Slabber. Extra information is provided on the names of the species.
More about Baster, Slabber and Bomme and their books.
If you want to go to their works directly:
Baster's Natuurkundige uitspanningen 1759-1765
Slabber's Natuurkundige verlustigingen 1769-1778
Bomme's papers and manuscripts 1769-1782
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Floris Bennema, the Netherlands
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