Their situation has nothing to recommend it, for thecoastline here is quite bald and uninteresting, and the country immediately in the rear is for the most part treeless downs.
Great waves flung themselves toward the harsh coastline and beat upon it with insensate violence.
Holden stared away down the incredible, lifeless coastline at the distant storm.
To the east there was a precipitous coastline of dark rock which for a while we thought of visiting.
Our object was to map in the coastline as far east as possible, and the problem, now, was whether to go north or south.
An Eastern Coastal Party composed of Madigan (leader), McLean and Correll was to start in early November with the object of investigating the coastline beyond the Mertz Glacier.
At this point any analogy which could possibly have been found with Wilkes's coastline ceased.
I greatly regret inability at the moment to set out the detail of coastline met with for three hundred miles travelled and observations of glacier and ice-formations, etc.
Captain Davis's narrative proceeds: "Having cleared this obstacle we followed the coastline to the west from point to point.
It had proved otherwise, only too well endorsing the scanty information supplied by D'Urville and Wilkes of the coastline seen by them.
The geographical results were fruitful; the Ross Sea, the Admiralty Range and the Great Ice Barrier were discovered and some eight hundred miles of Antarctic coastline were broadly delineated.
A break in the icy monotony came with a short tract of islets fronting a background of dark rocky coastline similar to that at Cape Denison but more extensive.
The irregularities in the coastlineaccount for this; the wind tending to flow down to sea-level by the nearest route.
Stillwell, in charge of a Near Eastern Party, was to map thecoastline between Cape Denison and the Mertz Glacier-Tongue, dividing the work into two stages.
On previous occasions we had not been able to see so much of the coastline in this longitude owing to the compactness of the ice, and so we were able to definitely chart a longer tract at the western limit of Adelie Land.
Here the coastline of the present Kingdom of Belgium ends, the little River Zwyn--once famous as the channel up which one hundred and fifty ships a day made their way to Bruges in the days of its greatness--forming the boundary.
A curious old lighthouse with a pointed tower stands about midway between the present town and Nieuport Bains, as the beach town is called, showing where the coastline lay some three hundred and fifty years ago.
The whole coastline was blocked with the 'great store of ice' that lay against it.
Of the waters, however, that seemed to open up beyond, or of the exact relation of the Newfoundland coastline to the rest of the great continent nothing accurate was known.
This conjecture seemed to be correct, as the coastline of the island of Anticosti presently appeared on the horizon.
From this or that projecting point, commanding a view of the coastline for some distance, one may count a dozen or more of these headlands thrust out aslant like stupendous half-ruined buttresses supporting the granite walls of the cliff.
The grim coastline was enveloped in wreathe of white spray, and the surf-lashed base of the heights rang again as it repelled the onset of each watery monster, while in showers of milky foam the sea ran from the black, slippery rocks.
A flying scud partly hid the tall cliffs, and then passed, and the crescent-like bays and looming promontories of the iron coastline stood clear above the restless, leaden-hued waters.
But a great deal of the actual coastline is obstructed for the access of mariners, especially on the south, by an obstinate fringe of mangroves.
On the other side of a narrow strait (Torres Straits) is a jagged coastline obviously representing North Australia.
This resulted in the discovery of the island of Cozumel and a fairly complete reconnaissance of the coastline of Yucatan.
Just beyond the cape the coastline breaks into a large bay, an immense wooded oval of shallow water, guarded seaward by a natural breakwater of sand and entered by two narrow waterways, east and west.
The tourist industry remains undeveloped because of a rugged coastline and the lack of an international airport.
We stood over North-West for the opposite shore, and closing to within three miles of the land changed our course and ran along the singular low point forming the coastline to the North-West of Cape Upstart; and by 9 P.
There were at the time not more than 4,500 civilized people of American origin in the country; these were largely illiterate and scattered along a coastline more than three hundred miles in length.
There are no rivers of the first rank, but the longest streams are about three hundred miles in length, and at convenient distances apart flow down to a coastline somewhat more than three hundred miles long.
As soon as there was sufficient light for me to distinguish the coastline I found that it was somewhat losing its monotonous character by breaking into more detached hills; and about ten A.
Meanwhile, Lieutenant Dayman, in the Asp, laid down the coastline and neighbourhood as far as the next station twenty or thirty miles in advance.
We'll scan the whole coastlinefrom here to Spindrift.
The plane turned and twisted as Scotty followed thecoastline as accurately as he could.
The local authorities will, in turn, inform the foreign consular officers at the port or on the coastlineunder blockade as soon as possible.
That flat coastline curving southward is the coast of Egypt.
Its coastline looked flat, but high mountains rose in the distance.
Two miles to starboard lay Gueboroa Island, itscoastline curving north to west like an immense arm.
No traces of them are found south of Hennebont, or west of Guingamp, but all the coastline of Cornouaille and Léon was studded thick with them.
Twenty miles of the coastline from Champion Bay trended North 29 degrees West.
The north-east extreme of Tasmania is singularly low, with a coastline of sandhills.
This was the first remarkable elevation in the country we had seen during the two hundred miles of the coastlinetraced by the Beagle; it appears to be the North-East termination of the high land seen southward from the Turtle Isles.
The coastline was low along here and very uneven, with numerous pretty little islands on the Pacific side, the waters surrounding them sparkling like jewels when the sun's rays would struggle through the clouds and strike the tossing waves.
It was two hours later that those in the Sky-Bird saw the coastline of Africa jutting out into the sea in a great bulge, and a little afterward they recognized landmarks agreeing with their chart.
Each flyer coveted the honor of being the first one to see the coastline of Central America, the resting-place of Panama.
The tide was out, and the coastline at the foot of the cliffs showed for miles towards Staveley in black rocky outline, with broken reefs running hundreds of yards out to sea.
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