Similar to the desert, the peninsula contains mountains in its southern sector that are a geological extension of the Red Sea Hills, the low range along the Red Sea coast that includes Mount Catherine ( Jabal Katrinah ), the country's highest point, at 2, 642 m above sea-level.

The coast contains nearly 4, 000 oil platforms.

This contains examples of all 4 types of woodland found on the Basque coast: beech woods, oak woods, holm-oak woods and riverside brush.

The north of the island contains two villages: Volissos on the west coast, and Kardamyla on the east.

The eastern coast contains Tanzania's largest city and former capital, Dar es Salaam.

The southern part of the Yellow Sea, including the entire west coast of Korea, contains a 10 km wide belt of intertidal mudflats, which has the total area of 2, 850 km < sup > 2 </ sup > and is maintained by 4 – 10 m tides.

The northern area of the city near the Atlantic coast contains Splashmins Fun Park, Fort William Frederick, a park and the Umana Yana, a conical thatched building built by Wai-Wai Amerindians using traditional techniques.

Much of the Suisun Bay contains the Suisun Marsh, the largest saltwater marsh on the west coast of the United States.

The original flora of this coast contains a number of endemic species and beginning in the early 1970s, efforts were made to stabilize these dunes by replanting.

The turquoise green water around this coast is caused by the slate / sand around Tintagel which contains elements of copper: strong sunlight turns the water a light turquoise green colour in warm weather.

The grassy flood plain of the Gambia river, which contains Guinean mangroves near the coast, with West Sudanian savanna upriver inland.

The region also contains specimens of the tallest trees on earth, the coast redwoods, in southwestern Oregon, but the largest of these trees are located just south of the California border in Northwestern California.

The Highland coast contains numerous estuaries, straits and inlets of a similar kind, not called " firth ", e. g. the Minch, and Loch Torridon ; these are often called sea lochs.

The larger Leyte Valley extends from the northern coast to the long eastern shore and contains most of the towns and roadways on the island.

The northern coast of Kangaroo Island contains important fossil-baring deposits, dating from the late Lower Cambrian, such as the Emu Bay Shale ( late Botomian, 517 million years old ).

The official Wellington Region, as administered by the Wellington Regional Council ( under the brand-name " Greater Wellington ") covers the conurbation around the capital city, Wellington, and the cities of Lower Hutt, Porirua, and Upper Hutt, each of which also contains a rural hinterland ; it extends up the west coast of the North Island, taking in the coastal settlements of the Kapiti Coast district, which includes the southern fringe of the area commonly known as Horowhenua and the town of Otaki ; east of the Rimutaka Range it includes three largely rural districts containing most of Wairarapa, covering the towns of Masterton and Carterton, Greytown, Featherston and Martinborough.

A shrine on the western coast of the Tango Peninsula in northern Kyoto Prefecture, named Urashima Jinja, contains an old document describing a man, Urashimako, who left his land in 478 A. D. and visited a land where people never die.

The province is located on the coast of the Andaman Sea, and contains 46 islands together with the mainland area.

The Museum's Great Hall contains many fragments of totem poles from Haida and other First Nations villages along British Columbia's coast.

The museum contains a permanent exhibition of life in old Phuket, ancient artefacts and remains discovered on the coast, and materials used during war with Burma ( Myanmar ).

The east coast contains settlements such as Tinui, Castlepoint, and Riversdale Beach, while the main southern rivers drain through or past Lake Wairarapa to discharge into Palliser Bay east of Cook Strait.

The province contains the narrowest part of Thailand-directly south of the capital, it is just 13 kilometres from the coast of the Gulf of Thailand to the border with Myanmar.

* England: The south coast of England is a submergent coastline which contains many rias, including Portsmouth Harbour, Langstone Harbour, Chichester Harbour, Pagham Harbour, Southampton Water, Poole Harbour, the estuaries of the Exe, Teign and Dart, the Kingsbridge Estuary, and Plymouth Sound in Devon, and the estuaries of the River Fowey and River Fal in Cornwall.

The tract called the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, contains sailing directions for merchants from the Red Sea to the Indus and Malabar, and even indicates that the coast from Barygaza ( Baroch ) had a general southward direction down to and far beyond Cape Komari ( Comorin ).

Churchill replied to the signal telling Cradock that Defence was to remain on the east coast and that Cradock was considered to have sufficient forces for his task, making no comment about his plan to abandon Canopus.

Until extremely close ridings were decided on the west coast, it appeared as though the Liberals ' seat total, if combined with that of the left-wing New Democratic Party ( NDP ), would be sufficient to hold a majority in the House of Commons.

* Atlantic coastal desert: The Atlantic coastal desert occupies a narrow strip along the Atlantic coast, where fog generated offshore by the cool Canary Current provides sufficient moisture to sustain a variety of lichens, succulents, and shrubs.

Bays occur in oak woodlands only close to the coast, or in extreme northern California where there is sufficient moisture.

There are several deep valleys cut into this plateau such as Lamorna on the south coast, where sufficient shelter from the weather is gained for trees to establish and grow.

By the 18th century it was understood that a less northerly track was sufficient, but galleon navigators steered well clear of the forbidding and rugged fogbound California coast ; According to historian William Lytle Schurz, " They generally made their landfall well down the coast, somewhere between Point Conception and Cape San Lucas ... After all, these were preeminently merchant ships, and the business of exploration lay outside their field, though chance discoveries were welcomed ".

Off the eastern coast of the United States, the closest sufficient depths are off Long Island ( about 75 mi / 120 km ), Ocracoke ( about 20 mi / 32 km )), and Miami ( 5 mi / 8 km ).

The high aquifer on the sandy coast provides sufficient water supply and the proximity to the major tourist destination of Mahabalipuram ensures annual visitation.

Before the next case of blockade which can be described as pacific occurred came the Declaration of Paris ( April 15, 1856 ), requiring that blockades in order to be binding must be effective ; that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy.

The origin of the city is not entirely known because of lack of sufficient traces to assert a Greek origin ( coins now dispersed, an old emblem showing the symbol of Athens ) or Roman ( a Roman villa of the imperial period close to the Northern coast and the remains of a water tank ).

They are thought to be physiologically restricted to the temperate rain forest regions of the North American Pacific coast and moist microenvironments inland due to their inability to obtain sufficient water in more arid environments.

Although not immediately upon the coast, but nearly due north of the Bitter Lakes, Heroöpolis was of sufficient importance, as a trading station, to confer its name upon the arm of the Red Sea (, Ptol.

After gaining sufficient altitude, Arnauld's plane left for the British coast.

However, on the south coast, including the town Vadsø, there is sufficient summer heat for birch trees to grow.

The coast and its adjacent areas on and off shore are an important part of a local ecosystem: the mixture of fresh water and salt water in estuaries provides many nutrients for marine life.

* On the coast and in river estuaries of the Senegal, Saloum, Gambia, and Casamance rivers, burial mounds with clusters of shells often referred to as middens.

On the Maine coast, smelts were also a sign of spring, with the run of these small fish up tiny tidal estuaries.

Tidal gauges along the Portuguese coast have identified a 1 to 1. 5 mm rise in sea levels, causing large estuaries and inland deltas in some major rivers to overflow.

Estuaries are amongst the most heavily populated areas throughout the world, with about 60 % of the world ’ s population living along estuaries and the coast.

" Kusky characterizes lagoons as normally being elongated parallel to the coast, while estuaries are usually drowned river valleys, elongated perpendicular to the coast.

In terms of nature conservation, Breydon Water is one of the most important estuaries on the east coast of England between The Wash and the Thames estuary.

Today we can only estimate a description of the original habitat and wildlife by comparing with that of neighbouring countries and it is believed that it would have consisted of freshwater swamps inland and salty mangroves on the coast and the river estuaries.

Societies dating to the Millingstone Horizon are known which exploited the anadromous fishery of Morro Creek and other Pacific coast estuaries.

The diet of coastal oystercatchers is more varied, although dependent upon coast type ; on estuaries bivalves, gastropods and polychaete worms are the most important part of the diet, whereas rocky shore oystercatchers prey upon limpets, mussels, gastropods, and chitons.

When approaching the European coast, the larvae metamorphose into a transparent larval stage called " glass eel ", enter estuaries and start migrating upstream.

After spawning in the Sargasso Sea and moving to the west, the leptocephali of the American eel exit the Gulf Stream earlier than the European eel and begin migrating into the estuaries along the east coast of North America between February and late April at an age of about one year and a length of about 60 mm.

The Dithmarschen part and the south coast between the Elbe and Eider Eider estuaries form the central part of the Wadden Sea.

The species breeds inland and then moves to the coast during the winter, particularly to estuaries.

There are no cities on the English coast but the resorts of Burnham-on-Sea, Watchet, Minehead and Ilfracombe face directly onto the Bristol Channel, whilst Barnstaple and Bideford are sited on estuaries opening onto Bideford Bay at the westernmost end of the Bristol Channel.

Westerplatte is a peninsula in Gdańsk, Poland, located on the Baltic Sea coast mouth of the Dead Vistula ( one of the Vistula delta estuaries ), in the Gdańsk harbour channel.

There are also areas of mangrove in river estuaries where the coast is flatter.

In addition to the formal Network Rail definition, the ECML is sometimes regarded as including the Edinburgh to Aberdeen Line, on which some East Coast services continue beyond Edinburgh Waverley to Aberdeen, running mostly in view of the east coast via Kirkcaldy, Dundee and Arbroath .| North of Edinburgh it includes the red cantilever Forth Bridge, and at Dundee the curved Tay Bridge, both crossing wide river estuaries.

Humans, even those living far from the coast, rely on goods and services supplied by estuaries

The Calusa diet at settlements along the coast and estuaries consisted primarily of fish, in particular pinfish ( Lagodon rhomboides ), pigfish ( redmouth grunt ), ( Orthopristis chrysoptera ) and hardhead catfish ( Ariopsis Felis ).