sand beach was Kamoamoa. Unlike with white and green sand beaches, walking barefoot on black sand can result in burns, as the black sand absorbs more solar radiation. Beaches Black sand has formed beaches in places including: Europe Bulgaria Burgas Faroe Islands Fuglafjørđur Tjørnuvík Italy Ladispoli Naples Georgia Ureki Greece Perivolos beach, Santorini Cyprus Governor's Beach, Limassol Iceland Vík í Mýrdal Reykjanes Stokksnes Portugal Azores São Roque, São Miguel Mosteiros, São Miguel Madeira Spain Tenerife Playa El Bollullo, near Puerto de la Cruz Playa Jardín, Puerto de la Cruz Playa Las Gaviotas near Santa Cruz La Palma Playa de Los Cancajos, Breña Baja Fuerteventura Playa de Ajuy Playa Pozo Negro Galicia Praia de Teixidelo, Cedeira (non-volcanic) Africa Egypt Algeria Cameroon Limbe Idenau Debundscha North America Canada Black Beach, Lorneville, New Brunswick (near Coleson Cove Generating station, west of Saint John) Salmon Cove Beach, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Mexico Playa Patzcuarito (Nayarit) Playa La Ventanilla (Oaxaca) United States Black Sand Beach, Prince William Sound, Alaska, Lowell Point Beach, Seward, Alaska Black Sand Beach, Lost Coast, California Central America Costa Rica Playa Negra, Guanacaste Playa Negra, Puerto Viejo, Limón Guatemala Puerto de San José, Monterrico, Champerico, Puerto Quetzal Panama Las Lajas, Chiriquí Province El Salvador Playa El Tunco Caribbean Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Montserrat (most beaches except Rendezvous Beach) St. Eustatius St. Kitts Nevis Jamaica Dominica (most beaches) Martinique (most North east Beaches and Anse Noire beach) St. Lucia Anse Chastanet Guadeloupe Grand Anse beach, Basse-Terre Grenada Venezuela St.Thomas (USVI) Puerto Rico (US) Barceloneta, Machuca's Garden Playa Negra in Vieques Dominican Republic Cocolandia, Palenque Beach, San Cristóbal Baní Sand Dunes, Peravia, Baní Black Stone Beach, Santa Cruz, Aruba Asia Varkala Black Beach, Varkala, Kerala, India Alappad, Kollam, Kerala, India Valsad, India Hac Sa Beach, Macao Hunza River, Pakistan Jambi, Indonesia Langkawi, Malaysia Lung Kwu Tan, Hong Kong Kaohsiung, Taiwan Yilan, Taiwan Akyab, Arakan Kaladan River, Chin State and Rakhine State, Myanmar Lingayen Gulf, Philippines North Atlantic Reynisfjara, Iceland North Pacific Iwo Jima Kugenuma Kaigan, Japan Hawaiʻi nei "Big Island" Isaac Hale Beach Park (Pohoʻiki) Kaimū (destroyed by lava flow in 1990, now a new black sand beach is forming) Kehena Beach Punaluʻu Beach Richardson Beach, Hilo Waipiʻo Beach Maui Honokalani Black Sand Beach and Waiʻanapanapa Black Sand Beach in Waiʻanapanapa State Park Oneʻuli Beach also known as Naupaka Beach South Pacific Guam Talafofo New Zealand (listed from North to South) Muriwai Bethells