headland

Example Sentences

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The peninsula benefits from unique topography, including a headland area for safer storm watching and sandy beaches, along with a treacherous confluence area where the mighty Columbia River and the Pacific Ocean meet.

From Seattle Times

Acadia National Park, spreading across Mount Desert Island onto the mainland, protects the natural beauty of the highest rocky headlands along the Atlantic coastline of the United States.

From Washington Post

The more problematic issue with the California spill is that there are several points of headlands there that enter into estuaries and marshes.

From The Verge

Reuters witnesses on Tuesday saw two boats arrive at the headland of Dungeness in Kent, southeast England, one of the closest points to France in Britain.

From Reuters

The sections ranged from steep, rocky headlands and bluffs to wide, low-lying alluvial valleys where rivers flow into the bay.

From Scientific American