Yeah, we had an exam problem on this for the Australian coastline when I was doing chaos theory. There's a fairly famous paper where some guy (forget his name) got a spectacularly good estimate of the length of the british coastline using just the usual box-counting method

This perplexes me, to be honest. I've never once encountered a journal my uni library doesnt have a sub to, not one. I dont know if that's just in my field of study and research (physics), but still.