It is a popular coastal seaside resort with approximately 1, 000 inhabitants, on the east-facing south coast of the Llŷn Peninsula at the southern terminus of the A499.

These are east-facing vineyards, with terroir similar to the Côte de Beaune.

The museum ’ s east-facing entrance, its prism window and its high space for contemporary Native performances are direct results of extensive consultations with Native peoples.

While the slope down the Vosges is generally east-facing, many of the best sites are south-west to south-east facing, and benefit from extra sun exposure.

For example, because the sun's rays are in the west at the hottest time of day in the afternoon, in most cases a west-facing slope will be warmer than a sheltered east-facing slope ( unless large-scale rainfall influences dictate otherwise ).

In Australia, for example, remnants of rainforest are almost always found on east-facing slopes which are protected from dry westerly wind.

Precipitation also strongly affected by the presence of the Apennine mountain ridges of the region increases with the proportion being more abundant in the field and on the slopes exposed to the west, instead of decreasing towards the east and east-facing slopes.

It consists of of land spanning the towns of Torquay, Paignton and Brixham, which together occupy an east-facing natural harbour by the English Channel.

Thommanon is a single-towered temple with an east-facing central sanctuary, crowned by a prasat, or tower.

* The east-facing pediment on the northern library shows the god of the sky Indra creating rain to put out a forest fire started by the god of fire Agni for purposes of killing the nāga king Takṣaka who lived in Khāṇḍava Forest.

The TM movement hopes to achieve global reconstruction by demolishing most existing buildings in the world and replacing them with buildings that follow the Vastu Shastra, especially in regard to having east-facing entrances, at an estimated cost of $ 300 trillion.

He likewise dismisses the ideas that buildings might be ruined or birds left behind by Earth's motion — all may simply share the eastward rotational motion of Earth, like the east-facing cannon and ball discussed above.

The term drawing room is not used as widely as it once was, and tends to be used in Britain only by those who also have other reception rooms, such as a morning room, a nineteenth-century designation for a sitting-room, often with east-facing exposure, suited for daytime calls, or the middle-class lounge, a late nineteenth-century designation for a room in which to relax ; hence the drawing room is the smartest room in the house, usually used by the adults of the family when entertaining.

The deposits from their east-facing drainage basins, carried by streams and rivers from the Elko Highlands ( along the borders of present-day Nevada and Utah ) and deposited in swampy lowlands, lakes, river channels and floodplains, became the Morrison Formation.

An east-facing terrace of land was clearly separated by a pronounced gully, 6 to 8 meters deep, from the plain on the bank of the river.

Fenwick Tower consists of 33 stories, not including an additional elevator control room at the top, also containing an east-facing webcam run by the Chebucto Community Net.

The east-facing side of the bridge has been used several times since as a framework from which to hang static fireworks, especially during the elaborate New Year's Eve displays.

At elevations from 1, 350-1, 700 m ( 4, 440-5, 600 feet ), aspects include south-and east-facing slopes.

The town's position on an east-facing bay provides it some protection from the prevailing southwesterly winds.

The cult image of the Poliás was a wooden effigy, often referred to as the " xóanon diipetés " ( the " carving that fell from heaven "), made of olive wood and housed in the east-facing wing of the Erechtheum temple in the classical era.

In the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami drawback was not reported on the African coast or any other east-facing coasts that it reached.

Lainson made extensive use of ornate decorative mouldings on the east-facing main façade, which is not symmetrical and has a Dutch gable.

The building has two main entrances, the west-facing formal entrance, which faces the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and Syntagma Square, and the east-facing business entrance, which faces the National Gardens.

A large clock face on the external east-facing wall has only an hour hand since Jefferson thought this was accurate enough for outdoor laborers.

Skylights on east-facing roofs provide maximum direct light and solar heat gain in the summer morning.

The east-facing orientation of the complex is also advanced as evidence of its Christian origin since Chinese Daoist and Buddhist temple complexes face north or south.

The path passes the east-facing Portminster Beach and goes around " The Island ", a headland, to the north-facing Portmeor Beach.

The division moved to Egypt as part of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, where it manned the east-facing defensive fortifications during the Battle of Romani.

Usually this would be the top floor of a public-house, with west-and east-facing windows to show the time of sunset and sunrise.

The east-facing pediment is lying on the ground.

* The east-facing pediment on the southern library shows Śiva seated on the summit of Mount Kailāsa, his mythological abode.

Usually this would be the top floor of a public-house, with west-and east-facing windows to show the time of sunset and sunrise.

Originally this was built as an east-facing terminus with the intent of extending the line westwards.

Below the inscription on the east-facing side is a second inscription recording the circumstances of the tomb's construction.

Alexios was able to secure much of the coastal regions by sending peasant soldiers to raid the Seljuq camps, but these victories were unable to stop the Turks altogether.

Both European ( the coastal regions, such as the Basque Country, Catalonia, and Asturias ) and Overseas – Antilles and pacific were able to grow uninterruptedly.

Other shellfish of the coastal regions include little neck clams, sea scallops, blue mussels, oysters, soft shell clams and razor shell clams.

Aboriginal communities in outback regions have not been displaced as they have been in areas of intensive agriculture and large cities, in coastal areas.

The province's mainland away from the coastal regions is not as moderated by the Pacific Ocean and ranges from desert and semi-arid plateau to the range and canyon districts of the Central and Southern Interior to boreal forest and sub-arctic prairie in the Northern Interior.

The former settled in the eastern coastal regions, while the latter settled primarily in the area known today as the Highveld — the large, relatively high central plateau of South Africa.

Marine environments are especially vulnerable since oil spills of coastal regions and the open sea are poorly containable and mitigation is difficult.

More and more of the world's people live in coastal regions.

The Passamaquoddy Nation inhabited the northwestern coastal regions of the present-day Bay of Fundy.

Cismontane chaparral (" this side of the mountain ") refers to a chaparral ecosystem in the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub Biome in California, growing on the western ( and coastal ) sides of large mountain range systems, such as: western slopes of the Sierra Nevada in the San Joaquin Valley foothills, western slopes of the Peninsular Ranges and California Coast Ranges, and south-southwest slopes of the Transverse Ranges in the Central Coast and Southern California regions.

Ecuadorians often describe the country as a series of " micro-environments " and economic-cultural regions that are reflected in the country's cultural and geographic diversity of coastal fishing and trade ( with Guayaquil as a port ), highland Quichua-speaking peoples ( with Quito as a center, and the Amazon or jungle region, with several indigenous populations continually facing intrusions by " colonos " ( colonists ) seeking to use land for farming including palm oil, or for oil and resource exploitation.

Major losses of sugarcane, totaling 9 % of the estimated 1998-99 production, were sustained primarily in the coastal regions.

During a time of La Niña, drought plagues the coastal regions of Peru and Chile.

In 1891, Rivières du Sud was placed under the colonial lieutenant governor at Dakar, who had authority over the French coastal regions east to Porto-Novo ( modern Benin ).

Most Guineans, 99 %, are blacks — mostly Fula and Mandinka-speakers concentrated in the north and northeast, the Balanta and Papel, living in the southern coastal regions, and the Manjaco and Mancanha, occupying the central and northern coastal areas.

Fish dishes are common in coastal regions and on the islands.

Honduras has three distinct topographical regions: an extensive interior highland area and two narrow coastal lowlands.

Although these continental European powers controlled various coastal regions of southern and eastern India during the ensuing century, they eventually lost all their territories in India to the British islanders, with the exception of the French outposts of Pondicherry and Chandernagore, the Dutch port of Travancore, and the Portuguese colonies of Goa, Daman and Diu.

The history of Asia can be seen as the collective history of several distinct peripheral coastal regions such as, East Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East linked by the interior mass of the Eurasian steppe.

The coastal periphery was the home to some of the world's earliest known civilizations, with each of the three regions developing early civilizations around fertile river valleys.

This tradition was part of the eastern stream of Bantu expansion ( sometimes called Kwale ) which originated west of the Great Lakes, spreading to the coastal regions of southeastern Kenya and north eastern Tanzania, and then southwards to Mozambique, south eastern Zimbabwe and Natal.

This is attributed to the fact that Ghana's Hausa population descend from Hausa-Fulani traders settled in the zongo districts of major trade-towns up and down the previous Asante, Gonja and Dagomba kingdoms stretching from the sahel to coastal regions, in particular the cities of Tamale, Salaga, Bawku, Bolgatanga, Achimota, Nima and Kumasi.

In the coastal regions of Croatia ; Istria, Dalmatia and Croatian Littoral, as well as in Lika a form of Ham known as " Pršut " is made.

The coastal regions of Finland were a part of the Nordic Bronze Culture, whereas in the inland regions the influences came from the bronze-using cultures of Northern and Eastern Russia.