even like shouting and crying out from the hilltops from which he could descend as an eagle in a mad caper from the cliffs.

There are two suspension bridges over the Bosphorus, both its Asian and European banks rise steeply from the water and form a succession of cliffs, coves, and nearly landlocked bays.

" BASE " is an acronym that stands for four categories of fixed objects from which one can jump: buildings, antennas, spans ( bridges ), and earth ( cliffs ).

Some of them were sited beside precipitous cliffs and were protected by large ramparts, artificial or natural: a good example is at Burland near Gulberwick in Shetland, on a clifftop and cut off from the mainland by huge ditches.

The landscape varies from dry plains to high active volcanoes with cliffs rising steeply from the ocean.

Sheer, jagged cliffs rise from the sea on several of the mountainous islands.

In northwestern Europe, chalk deposits from the Upper Cretaceous are characteristic for the Chalk Group, which forms the white cliffs of Dover on the south coast of England and similar cliffs on the French Normandian coast.

Outdoor diving typically takes place from cliffs or other rock formations either into fresh or salt water.

This islet was a volcanic rock surrounded by cliffs which made it inaccessible to humans, but in 1830 the islet submerged after a volcanic eruption, and the birds moved to the nearby island of Eldey, which was accessible from a single side.

* 1981 – Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans ( bridges ), and earth ( cliffs ).

The terrain consists of steep coastal cliffs made from limestone and a central plateau.

For about 175 kilometers, from As Sib to Ras al Hadd, it is barren and bounded by cliffs almost its entire length ; there is no cultivation and little habitation.

It stands 21 km above the Mars global datum, and its local relief, from the foot of the cliffs which form its margin to the northwest to its peak, is nearly ( a little over twice the height of Mauna Kea as measured from its base on the ocean floor ).

Pacific Beach's namesake stretches for miles from the Mission Bay jetty to the cliffs of La Jolla.

Plymouth Hoe has become notorious over recent years for the development of the sport known locally as ' tombstoning ' generally undertaken by youths taking spectacular leaps from the waterfront cliffs and fortifications into the sea.

As the story goes, back in the late 18th century when General John Sullivan was avenging the Wyoming and Cherry-Valley Massacres, he chased a group of renegade Native Americans, up from present day Athens, Pennsylvania ( then known as Tioga Point ) through the valley, to a point somewhere along the cliffs.

There are two suspension bridges over the Bosphorus, both its Asian and European banks rise steeply from the water and form a succession of cliffs, coves, and nearly landlocked bays.

Choosing inaccessible cliffs and entirely mammal-free islands protects them from terrestrial predators while laying eggs in burrows is effective in protecting them from egg-scavengers like gulls and ravens.

600px Dover Harbour, from the cliffs above.

At the eastern end of the beach at the village of Chiswell, against the cliffs of the Isle of Portland, the beach curves round sharply to form Chesil Cove.

Portheras Cove is a relief from the many small rocky bays along this coast but the cliffs then continue beyond the iconic, disused Botallack Mine.

At Gunwalloe more cliffs appear, leading to Poldhu Cove overlooked by the radio station on Poldhu Point, then Porth Mellin on Mullion Cove with Mullion Island offshore.

The cliffs here are some of the most spectacular in England, and of great geological interest, both for the rock types and variety of landforms, notably Lulworth Cove and Durdle Door, and the coast is part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site because of the unique geology.

The geography of Drake's Cove, which lies along the coast of Marin County, has often been suggested as being similar to the cove described by Drake, including the white cliffs that look like the south coast of England and the specific configuration of the Cove.

Crystal Cove is a stretch of coastal cliffs and a beachfront cove situated between the Pacific Coast Highway and the Pacific Ocean just north of Laguna Beach.

: Volcanic origin, surrounded by coral reefs ; relatively flat coralline limestone plateau ( source of most freshwater ), with steep coastal cliffs and narrow coastal plains in north, low-rising hills in center, mountains in south

The terrain is generally low-lying on the south coast, with some rocky headlands, rising gradually to rugged cliffs along the north coast.

Kansas City proper is bowl-shaped and is surrounded to the north and south by limestone and bedrock cliffs that were carved by glaciers.

I would walk and hitch and sail away from this dark city to the bright spaces of the wet west coast, and there throw myself into the tall, glittering seas beyond Iona ( with its cargo of mouldering kings ) to let the gulls and seals and tides have their way with my remains, and in my dying moments look forward to an encounter with Staffa ’ s six-sided columns and Fingal ’ s cave ; or I might head south to Corryvrecken, to be spun inside the whirlpool and listen with my waterlogged deaf ears to its mile-wide voice ringing over the wave-race ; or be borne north, to where the white sands sing and coral hides, pink-fingered and hard-soft, beneath the ocean swell, and the rampart cliffs climb thousand-foot above the seething acres of milky foam, rainbow-buttressed.

The summit of the Castle Rock is above sea level, with rocky cliffs to the south, west and north, rearing up to from the surrounding landscape.

In this harbour the sea, at certain times, utters a very peculiar, deep, hollow, and melancholy roar, among the caverns of the cliffs, which was formerly believed to foretell the death of a king of the south of Ireland.

The area is bordered by sandstone cliffs, eroded to a few metres above sea level in the north and higher in the south.

It is a small crescent shaped range, with a high point some 750 m above sea level, running roughly north south with steep cliffs on the eastern side sloping more gradually down to the plane in the west.

The sandstone cliffs known as the Painted Cliffs are just south of Darlington.

Shandong Peninsula has a rocky coastline with cliffs, bays, and islands ; the large Laizhou Bay, the southernmost of the three bays of Bohai Sea, is found to the north, between Dongying and Penglai ; Jiaozhou Bay, which is much smaller, is found to the south, next to Qingdao.

The walk along the coast to the south passes by Cullernose Point, an example of the basaltic cliffs which are a significant feature of the local landscape.

The village's lakefront is dominated by the 3. 0 mile long " Lake Path ," which is a public hiking trail running from the south end of Wells College to the Levana cliffs.

The main section of town, centered around the courthouse, is situated along the south bank of the Pigeon amongst a series of relatively low but steep cliffs.

Soon after, the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railroad began construction on a second railroad on the south shore of nearby Kahlotus lake, including tunnels through the basalt cliffs near the southeast corner of town.

Wilbur is situated in an oblong basin with Goose Creek, also named for Wild Goose Bill, running through the center of the town, and abrupt, basaltic cliffs, not of very great elevation, on the north and south.

Surrounded by cliffs of Baraboo Quartzite, the village is two miles south of a notable rock formation located in Ableman Gorge, Van Hise Rock, which was used to explain the processes of structural geology by University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Charles R. Van Hise.

The city of Springfield is mainly flat with rolling hills and cliffs surrounding the south, east, and north parts of the city.

About 50 km south lies the promontory of Santa Maria di Leuca ( so called since ancient times from its white cliffs, leukos being Greek for white ), the southeastern extremity of Italy, the ancient Promontorium lapygium or Sallentinum.

At this time, the Mersey was considerably wider with sand dunes and marshes to the north leading up to Ainsdale beach and sandstone cliffs and shorelines to the south near Otterspool.

The lake is elongated in shape and is from north to south, with remote sandy beaches, large limestone cliffs, and many bat caves in some areas.

The rock strata slopes slightly upwards to the south, giving the highest cliffs on the south and some beaches to the north.