Question:  IJscolf was a sport popular in coastal regions where?
Context: Croatian cuisine is heterogeneous and is known as a cuisine of the regions, since every region of Croatia has its own distinct culinary tradition.  Its roots date back to ancient times.  The differences in the selection of foodstuffs and forms of cooking are most notable between those in mainland and those in coastal regions.  Mainland cuisine is more characterized by the earlier Slavic and the more recent contacts with neighboring cultures—Hungarian and Turkish, using lard for cooking, and spices such as black pepper, paprika, and garlic.  The coastal region bears the influences of the Greek and Roman cuisine, as well as of the later Mediterranean cuisine, in particular Italian (especially Venetian).  Coastal cuisines use olive oil, and herbs and spices such as rosemary, sage, bay leaf, oregano, marjoram, cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, and lemon and orange rind.  Peasant cooking traditions are based on imaginative variations of several basic ingredients (cereals, dairy products, meat, fish, vegetables, nuts) and cooking procedures (stewing, grilling, roasting, baking), while bourgeois cuisine involves more complicated procedures and use of selected herbs and spices.  Charcuterie is part of Croatian tradition in all regions.  Food and recipes from other former Yugoslav countries are also popular in Croatia. IJscolf was a sport played on ice, popular in the Low Countries between the Middle Ages and the Dutch Golden Age.  It was similar to ice hockey, although there is no evidence that ice hockey was directly influenced by the IJscolf. 2013–14 Atlantic winter storms in Europe were a series of winter storms affecting areas of Atlantic Europe and beyond.  The French Atlantic coastal regions (chiefly Brittany), South West and Southern England, West Wales, Ireland, Spanish Atlantic coastal regions (particularly Galicia) were especially affected by a "conveyor belt" series of high-precipitation storms (mostly not exceptional for their winds) and by high tides.  Many storms were explosively deepened by a strong jet stream, many deepening below 950 hPa.  The repeated formation of large deep lows over the Atlantic brought storm surges and large waves which coincided with some of the highest astronomical tides of the year and caused coastal damage.  The low pressure areas brought heavy rainfalls which led to flooding, which became most severe over parts of England such as at the Somerset Levels.  The repeated storms fit into a pattern of disturbed weather in the Northern Hemisphere, which saw from November 2013 a disturbance to the jet stream in the western Pacific, which propagated eastwards bringing a warm winter to Alaska, drought to California, and repeated cold air outbreaks to the eastern USA where the 2013–14 North American cold wave resulted. Ecuadorian cuisine is diverse, varying with altitude, and associated agricultural conditions.  Beef, chicken, and seafood are popular in the coastal regions and are typically served with carbohydrate-rich foods, such as rice accompanied with lentils, pasta, or plantain.  Whereas in the mountainous regions pork, chicken, beef and "cuy" (guinea pig) are popular and are often served with rice, corn, or potatoes.  A popular street food in mountainous regions is "hornado ", consisting of potatoes served with roasted pig.  Some examples of Ecuadorian cuisine in general include "patacones " (unripe plantains fried in oil, mashed up, and then refried), "llapingachos " (a pan-seared potato ball), and "seco de chivo " (a type of stew made from goat).  A wide variety of fresh fruit is available, particularly at lower altitudes, including "granadilla ", passionfruit, "naranjilla ", several types of banana, "uvilla ", "taxo ", and tree tomato. Moraingy (Malagasy) or Moringue (French) is a weaponless, bare-fisted striking style of traditional martial art that originated during the Maroseranana dynasty (1675–1896) of the Sakalava Kingdom of western coastal Madagascar.  It has since become popularized throughout Madagascar, but particularly in coastal regions, and has spread to neighboring Indian Ocean islands including Réunion, Mayotte, Comoros, Seychelles and Mauritius.  Participation in this form of combat was originally limited to young men, allowing elders to judge their physical fitness and strength while providing an opportunity for the youth to gain prestige and test their abilities.  Today, while the average age of participants is still between 10 and 35, young people of both genders may practice the sport.  Participants are called "kidabolahy" (young men) or "kidabo mpanao moraingy" (young people who practice moraingy) and are widely respected and even feared by fellow villagers.  In the North, they are called "Fagnorolahy", and the assistants, "magnafo".  Moraingy matches must by tradition be accompanied by music (often "salegy") to induce a trance-like state in the fighters and participants, contributing to the spiritual and communal experience of the fight.  As part of this experience, participants typically engage in dances during and between the matches that are meant to provoke the supporters of the opposing party, while the crowd cheers and jeers loudly. Ghost forests occur in areas where sea level has changed.  When there is a change in sea level, coastal regions may become inundated with sea water, altering the coastline and sometimes killing large areas of trees, leaving behind what is called a “ghost forest.”  Ghost forests may develop in a variety of environments.  And while ghost forests can occur in many different places, the physical coastal features are what dictate why they occur.  For example, in the southern US coastal marshes are expanding into dry wooded areas, killing trees and leaving behind areas of dead trees called snags.  This region of the US is at or below sea level, making the area more susceptible to tides.  The coastal features that dictated the creation of these ghost forests are directly affected by changing sea levels and therefore indirectly affected by climate change.  With global sea level rise, the coastlines in the southern US are being altered and leaving behind salt marshes filled with dead and dying trees. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science is a peer-reviewed academic journal on ocean sciences, with a focus on coastal regions ranging from estuaries up to the edge of the continental shelf.  It's published by Elsevier on behalf of the Estuarine Coastal Sciences Association and edited by T.S. Bianchi, M. Elliott, I. Valiela, and E. Wolanski.  The journal began in 1973 as "Estuarine and Coastal Marine Science" before the name was changed in 1981.  The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Science Citation Index, Scopus, PASCAL, Biosis, INSPEC, Geobase, and Academic Search Premier.  According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 2.057. The Low Countries (Dutch: "De Lage Landen or De Nederlanden" ) is a coastal region in western Europe, consisting especially of the Netherlands and Belgium, and the low-lying delta of the Rhine, Meuse, Scheldt, and Ems rivers where much of the land is at or below sea level.  This wide area of Western Europe roughly stretches from French Gravelines and Dunkirk at its southwestern point, to the area of Dutch Delfzijl and German Eastern Frisia at its northeastern point, and to Luxembourg and French Thionville in the southeast. Ontocetus is an extinct genus of walrus, an aquatic carnivoran of the family Odobenidae, endemic to coastal regions of the southern North Sea and the southeastern coastal regions of the U.S. during the Miocene-Pleistocene.  It lived from 13.6 mya—300,000 years ago, existing for approximately . Artemisia suksdorfii is a North American species of sagebrush in the sunflower family.  It is known by the common names coastal mugwort, coastal wormwood, and Suksdorf sagewort.  It is native to coastal regions from British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and northern California as far south as Sonoma County, with isolated populations on Santa Catalina Island in Los Angeles County.
Answer: western Europe