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Hyams Beach, Jervis Bay, New South Wales, Australia

Hyams Beach, Jervis Bay, New South Wales, Australia. The sand on this beach is made almost entirely of quartz making it one of the whitest sand beaches in the world. It is listed in the Guiness Book of Records as having the whitest sand of any beach in the world!.

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Hyams Beach, Jervis Bay, New South Wales, Australia

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  1. Hyams Beach, Jervis Bay, New South Wales, Australia The sand on this beach is made almost entirely of quartz making it one of the whitest sand beaches in the world. It is listed in the Guiness Book of Records as having the whitest sand of any beach in the world!

  2. Amalfi Coast, South of Naples, Italy

  3. Jurassic Coast, Dorset, United Kingdom

  4. Kaihalulu Beach, Ulupalakaua, Maui, Hawaii This beach is found tucked into a tiny pocket cove near Hana Bay. It is one of very few red beaches in the world, the sand gets its red-black color from the iron-rich crumbling cinder cone hill surrounds the bay.

  5. Wellington, England

  6. Gulf of Maine

  7. Pink beach at Harbor Island, Eleuthera, Bahamas Pink beaches are quite rare and are only found in areas near a very large coral reef formation. Tiny organisms with red skeletons live in the reefs and when they die the skeletons fall to the ocean floor and are eventually eroded into small particles. These are carried to shore by the current where they mix with the sand to yield this pink color.

  8. Ireland

  9. Pfeiffer Beach, Big Sur, California When the manganese garnet from the hills surrounding Pfeiffer Beach get washes down to the ocean they turn the sand into a vivid purple color. The further north you go, the more purplish the sand becomes.

  10. Norfolk, Virginia

  11. Cape Kiwanda State Park, Oregon

  12. Phang Nga Bay, Phuket, Thailand

  13. South Africa

  14. Black Sand Beach, California This is the result of volcanic activity near a coastline. Black beaches are created when particles weathered from cooled lava wash down to shore.

  15. Milford Sound, New Zealand

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