| First was the development of defended settlements, usually on hilltops or promontories that afforded natural defence. |
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| From the tip of the headland you are treated to a view of more unblemished promontories dotted along the coast. |
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| From north to south The Gambia extends to a maximum of 48km, though the coastline, with its bays and promontories, is 80km in length. |
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| The dark shapes that smudged the even line of the ocean were mountains, or perhaps promontories, riding high and magnificent upon the vastness of the water. |
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| Its circular shape is broken in the south by the Ogura and Nakayama promontories. |
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| Daman lies on an alluvial coastal plain, although outcrops of basalt create low plateaus and promontories in the area. |
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| It is surrounded by numerous islets and is full of creeks, with many promontories and deep bays. |
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| It's very quiet, with some sparse vegetation and little promontories of rocks. |
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| You leave the cliffs and promontories and blue sea gulfs behind, and corkscrew inland, past the roadside shrines with their solitary icons and flickering candles. |
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| A long time ago everything around here looked like a deserted lake: hundreds of bays and caves between rugged promontories. |
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| Or, conversely, we can find small, dry promontories on a primarily wet, swampy ecosite. |
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| When the bedrock was exposed, they found two solid rock promontories within 300 feet of each other. |
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| Although this beach is not blessed with much shade, it nevertheless has interesting rock promontories and caves to explore and a couple of large rocks in the sea at the southern end where nudists tend to congregate. |
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| The west coast in particular is heavily indented, with long promontories separated by fjordlike sea lochs. |
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| To the south are shallow bays divided by low promontories. |
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| The southwest coast of the island is one of the areas with the widest variety of features: a rich store of bluffs, grottos, superb promontories, sandy inlets and splendid beaches, such as that of Chia. |
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| The symbolic primacy and visual dominance of the Centre Block and the Supreme Court, each crowning their respective promontories, should be protected and supported by any new development. |
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| Next is the beach of Cala Cipolla considered one of the most charming coastal tract of Chia: protected by high promontories, is a piece of golden sand, and that granulosa opens between the dense maquis. |
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| Two rocky promontories frame the great sandy arch of this beach. |
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| In calmer water, we could skirt along the bottom of cliffs that sucked and roared impotently as we danced insolently around promontories and slid between rocks and shore. |
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| With the older and more resistant rocks of the Precambrian peneplain, these form a low, picturesque coastline of sandy bays and rocky promontories. |
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| The Herzroute follows a cosy trail along the edges of the slopes and promontories and over the plateaux through a far flung and original piece of the Emmental. |
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| In fact there are two lines of walls that join the two castles of Castelgrande and Montebello, both located on rocky promontories, turning them into a single stronghold. |
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| Gluss Isle at the western entrance to Sullom Voe is one of the many promontories in Orkney and Shetland connected to a larger body of land by an ayre. |
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| The heavens are bright with bright clouds, the air is sweet with perfume from tree and flower, the bay is gemmed with gardened isles and promontories. |
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| However, Inistrynich, Eilean na Maodail, Eilean Dubh and Liever Island are all promontories on Loch Awe as opposed to islands, despite their names. |
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