भारत में एक ऐसा स्थान है, जहाँ यदि आप समुद्र किनारे खड़े होकर समुद्र का अवलोकन करें, तो आप पाएँगे कि दिन में दो बार समुद्री जल तटीय रेखा से कुछ किलोमीटर पीछे की ओर चला जाता है और फिर तट पर वापस आता है, और जब जल पीछे हटा होता है, तब आप वास्तव में समुद्र तल पर चल सकते हैं । यह अनूठी घटना कहाँ देखी जाती है ?
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At one of the places in India, if you stand on the seashore and watch the sea, you will find that the sea water recedes from the shore line a few kilometres and comes back to the shore, twice a day, and you can actually walk on the sea floor when the water recedes. This unique phenomenon is seen at
(a) Bhavnagar · (b) Bheemunipatnam · (c) Chandipur · (d) Nagapattinam
उत्तर और व्याख्या · explanation in English
Answer: (c) चांदीपुर में
Chandipur, on the Bay of Bengal coast in Balasore district of Odisha, has a very gently sloping shore: at low tide the sea pulls back up to about 5 km, so visitors can walk on the exposed sea bed, and the water returns with the high tide.
- ✓ (c) Odisha Tourism calls Chandipur a 'hide and seek' beach: at each low tide it recedes up to about 5 km, exposing the sea bed, and the sea comes back at high tide (tides come roughly twice a day).
- ✗ (a) Bhavnagar is a port city on the Gulf of Khambhat in Gujarat; it is not the beach known for this walk-on-the-sea-floor phenomenon.
- ✗ (b) Bheemunipatnam is a coastal town near Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh with an ordinary beach, not a receding one.
Remember · Chandipur (Balasore, Odisha) = the 'vanishing sea' beach: at low tide the sea recedes up to about 5 km and you can walk on the sea bed.
Sources
- Odisha Tourism (Government of Odisha): Chandipur ↗ “Chandipur is a beach like no other. During low tides the beach recedes upto 5 KM offering visitors the opportunity to walk on the sea bed.”
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