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Coastlines are indeed fractals, and a similar argument could be made for any border defined by natural phenomena (so like, not the long straight US/Canada border).
Coastlines are not self repeating and they are fundamentally finite.
Fractals are not necessarily self repeating, they just contain detail at arbitrarily small scales.
Which a physical space cannot fulfill