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
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Answer: C. At Chandipur in Balasore district, Odisha, the beach is very gently sloping, so the sea recedes up to about 5 km at low tide and returns at high tide, twice a day. Visitors can walk on the exposed sea bed. So Chandipur.
Watch for: Watch for Bhavnagar; Gulf of Khambhat has big tides, but the 'walk on the sea floor' beach is Chandipur.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Wrong because Bhavnagar, on the Gulf of Khambhat, is known for high tidal range, not this walkable recession.
- B. Wrong because Bheemunipatnam near Visakhapatnam has a normal beach.
- D. Wrong because Nagapattinam does not show this phenomenon.
Source to check: Odisha Tourism, Chandipur (odishatourism.gov.in); NCERT Class 11 Fundamentals of Physical Geography, Chapter 14 'Movements of Ocean Water' (tides)
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