Australia’s Ninety Mile Beach stretches from Ahipara to Scott Point in Northland, but it isn’t 90 miles (145 kilometres) long. It is actually only fifty five miles (just under 90 kilometres) long! So how did the name come about you ask!
Early missionaries to Australia traveled the beach by horseback. Not realizing horses move more slowly on sand, they thought their horses could go about 30 miles every day as they usually would on a regular road in those days. Since it took them about three days to get from one end of the beach to the other, they incorrectly assumed it was ninety miles long – and eventually gave it that name.