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Point Dume is a promontory on the coast of Malibu, California that juts out into the Pacific Ocean. The point, a long bluff, forms the northern end of the Santa Monica Bay . Point Dume Natural Area affords a vista of the Palos Verdes Peninsula and Santa Catalina Island .
Kingsport, which is mentioned in several Lovecraft stories, first appeared in "The Terrible Old Man" (1920).The title character of that story makes an appearance in "The Strange High House in the Mist" as well, as the Old Man mentions that the House had been on the cliff even when his grandfather was a boy, which the main character comments "must be immeasurable ages ago".
It is a two-storey work built of limestone with granite facings, sited on the cliff overlooking the bay. The upper storey consists of seven casemates which originally housed 68-pounder guns . The lower floor consisted of accommodation and a magazine.
Sunnydale is located on or near the Pacific Ocean. An ocean port with several docked ships is nearby. [22] Kingman's Bluff stands on a tall cliff overlooking the sea. [23] There is a beach not too far away. [24] Close to or in Sunnydale is an old quarry house built beside a deep lake, located a few feet from a cliff edge. [25]
The waves attacking the cliff-foot form a wave-cut notch by constant abrasion action producing an overhang. This overhang grows in size as the cliff is undercut, until it collapses under its own weight. The loose debris that has broken off is gradually carried away from the area in front of the cliff by the action of the sea.
La Pointe du Hoc (French pronunciation: [pwɛ̃t dy ɔk]) is a promontory with a 35-metre (110 ft) cliff overlooking the English Channel on the northwestern coast of Normandy in the Calvados department, France. In World War II, Pointe du Hoc was the location of a series of German bunkers and machine gun posts.
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Dun Ardtreck is a D-shaped structure with the straight side formed by the edge of a high cliff, along which a narrow wall ran. The thick, drystone wall, the design of the entrance passage, with its door-checks, and the intramural gallery suggests that the building once had the high, hollow wall of the broch towers but had suffered serious ...