See a black sand beach

The largest sand island on Earth — rainforest, dingoes and the freshwater Lake McKenzie.

Seven kilometres of pure white silica sand in the Whitsundays, swirling into the turquoise Hill Inlet.

Sandy spit at Denmark’s northern tip where the Skagerrak and Kattegat collide.

Three miles of naturally pink sand and a pastel village of golf carts and loyalist cottages, just off Eleuthera.

An 8-km beach with no hotels at all, reached by boat through Jaragua National Park — the wildest sand in the Caribbean.

Forested dune peninsula, UNESCO-listed.

A bare crescent of white sand in the middle of the ocean, yours for an afternoon by dhoni.

Sacred, uninhabited white-sand island.