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Investigating The Spatial Difference Between The East Coast And West Cost Of New Zealand

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AIM:
The investigate the spatial difference between the east coast and west cost of New Zealand. Comparing Muriwai Beach with Eastern Beach

HYPOTHESIS:
A west coast beach is a destructive environment compared to an eastern coast environment which is constructive.
Introduction:

Muriwai Beach is a coastal community on the west coast of the Auckland region, in the north island of New Zealand. Muriwai is approximately 17ilometer m west of kumeu and 42 kilometre northwest of Auckland. Muriwai draws lots of surfers and fisherman.

Eastern beach is a suburb of Auckland New Zealand. It is located on the eastern city of the city centre. Its most common attraction is a popular palm fringed beach, in summer, the temperature attracted thousands of people around Auckland.

In this internal I would like to investigate whether there is a spatial difference between Eastern Beach and Muriwa, and find out what caused the two beaches to be different. To achieve this I will use different equipment’s to help collect the data I need

Methodology:
Equipment
• Stop watch
• Clinometer
• Ranging poles (*2)
• Tape measure
• Float( tennis ball or apple)
• Alba wind watch

• Wind o We used an Alba wind watch to record the wind speed and the direction at both the base and the top of the dunes to see if there is any variation. We used a compass to record the direction of the wind.
• Long Shore Drift o The stopwatch is used to measure whether long-shore drift occurs at eastern beach,

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