It lies on Abadan Island ( long, 3 – 19 km or 2 – 12 miles wide, the island is bounded in the west by the Arvand waterway and to the east by the Bahmanshir outlet of the Karun River ), from the Persian Gulf, near the Iraqi-Iran border.

But, there is no evidence whatever of a Greek presence on the west coast and the Ionians at Aleria on the east coast had been expelled by the Etruscans long before Roman domination.

The Southeast Alaskan coast is roughly as long as the west coast of Canada.

Achiltibuie ( or Field of the yellow-haired boy ) is a long linear village in Ross and Cromarty, Highland, on the Coigach coast of northwestern Scotland, overlooking Badentarbet Bay to the west.

In such pre-industrialized, or poorly developed infrastructure regions, many barges are purpose-designed to be powered on waterways by long slender poles thereby becoming known on American waterways as poleboats as the extensive west of North America was settled using the vast tributary river systems of the Mississippi drainage basin.

Chile ( or ), officially the Republic of Chile (,, Mapudungun: Gulumapu ), is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

The battle itself has long been regarded as a key moment in the Saxon advance, since in reaching the Bristol Channel, the West Saxons divided the Britons west of the Severn from land communication with those in the peninsula to the south of the Channel.

In 18th and 19th century Germany, several thousand local languages of the continental west Germanic dialect continuum were reclassified as dialects of modern New High German although the vast majority of them were ( and still are ) mutually incomprehensible, despite the fact that they all existed long before New High German, which had at least in part been shaped as a compromise or mediative language between these local languages.

Since then, nature and man have closed all but two main outlets: the east branch, Damietta ( also seen as Dumyat ; 240 km long ), and the west branch, Rosetta ( 235 km long ).

A long dirt path extended west from the riverbank ( a short distance north of the eta districts ), leading along the northern edge of the city to the Yoshiwara pleasure districts.

On the seabed off the west coast of the island rests a block of rock 22 km long and 11 km wide, which appears to have slid off the island largely intact at some point in prehistory, similar to the predicted future collapse of Cumbre Vieja, a geological fault on the neighboring island, La Palma.

Before long, much of the south and west was under the control of the Nationalists, whose regular Army of Africa was the most professional force available to either side.

It was not long before people along the National Road used the term to describe the folks living in the territory to the west.

On the north, the main defining feature is the fault-based " Escarpment ", a long ridge that extends from Flagstaff in the west, through Windsor in the centre, to Campbells and the start of the Barbecue Bottom Road ( B10 ).

To the south and west, Kuwait shares a long border of 250 kilometers with Saudi Arabia.

The Eiderkanal was completed during the reign of Christian VII of Denmark in 1784 and was a part of a long waterway from Kiel to the Eider River's mouth at Tönning on the west coast.

By the end of August, relations improved again as the countries had redrawn the Hungarian and Romanian borders, settled some Bulgarian claims and Stalin was again convinced that Germany would face a long war in the west with Britain's improvement in its air battle with Germany and the execution of an agreement between the United States and Britain regarding destroyers and bases.

This provided a much-needed export route for goods from the west, since the trek east over the Appalachian Mountains was long and arduous.

While the composition of epic poetry, and of long poems generally, became less common in the west after the early 20th century, some notable epics have continued to be written.

Beyond the western terminus of the tribunal's award, the final stretch of Pakistan's border with India is about 80 kilometers long, running west and southwest to an inlet of the Arabian Sea.

Together they form the upper branch of an ellipse of long semimajor axis that approximately orientates from west to east.

The main chain is long and has smaller branches that extend to the west and die out along the banks of the Río Paraguay in the Northern Upland.

The Pongo de Manseriche is 3 miles ( 4. 8 km ) long, located at 4 ° 27 ' 30 " south latitude and 77 ° 34 ' 51 " west longitude, just below the mouth of the Rio Santiago, and between it and the old missionary station of Borja.

Meanwhile, the North-South Axis would have cut a giant swathe passing just to the west of Potsdamer Platz, some 5 km long and up to 100 m wide, and lined with Nazi government edifices on a gargantuan scale.

It is located on the Mediterranean coast between the mouths of the rivers Llobregat and Besòs and is bounded to the west by the Serra de Collserola ridge ().

A ridge about in elevation extends along the western boundary of the state and separates between the watersheds that feed Delaware River and Bay to the east and the Chesapeake Bay to the west.

In 1887, the rail link to Sydney was completed, requiring a bridge over the Hawkesbury River and a tunnel through the sandstone ridge west of Woy Woy.

To the west of this ridge lies a plateau in the center of the island ranging in altitude from above sea level.

To the west, the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea form a coastal border of almost 1, 800 kilometres that extends to the southern part of Yemen and follows a mountain ridge for approximately 320 kilometres to the vicinity of Najran.

The heart of Nejd is the area of the Jabal Tuwayq, an arc-shaped ridge with a steep west face that rises between 100 and 250 meters above the plateau.

Similarly, the Assabica valley, containing the Alhambra Park on the west and south, and, beyond this valley, the almost parallel ridge of Monte Mauror, separate it from the Antequeruela district.

There is a low ridge from Messines Ridge 80m ( 264 feet ) at its highest point, running north-east past " Clapham Junction " at the west end of Gheluvelt plateau ( 2 1 / 2 miles from Ypres at and Gheluvelt ( above ) to Passchendaele, ( 5 1 / 2 miles from Ypres at ) declining from there to a plain further north.

Both lakes were long and narrow, oriented north – south, as were the many ridge lines of the Appalachian Mountains extending as far south as Georgia, creating the near-impassable mountainous terrains to the east and west of the Great Appalachian Valley that the site commanded.

Union troops prepared to assault Confederate defensive positions south of the city and on a strongly fortified ridge just west of the city known as Marye's Heights.

Atop the ridge of St Thierry stands a fort of the same name, which with the neighbouring work of Chenay closes the west side of the place.

An additional south of the ridge between Simpson Peak and Old Mike Peak and west of Blue Lake were transferred back to the Pueblo in 1996.

The principal ridge, a 100 km long chain running from west ( Dent de Morcles ) to east ( Sidelhorn ), whose highest peak is the Finsteraarhorn, forms the watershed between the cantons of Berne and Valais.

" There were two important hills, high, that represented some of the highest ground in the Netherlands ; one north and west of Arnhem and one in the 82nd Airborne Division's zone, Groesbeek ridge.

Canton Zug ’ s borders were mainly established by nature itself: the rivers Sihl and Biber, and the Höhronen ridge in the east ; the Rossberg mountain in the south, and the Rooterberg mountain, and the river Reuss in the west.

The High Street, and earliest settlement, occupies the west bank, climbing steeply up from the bridge taking its ancient route along the ridge ; the summit on that side, 2. 5 miles ( 4 km ) distant is known as Mount Harry.

Bermuda now sits far to the west of the ridge in foothills that once were the ridge.

The 4th Canadian Division was responsible for the northern portion of the advance that included the capture of the highest point of the ridge followed by the heavily defended Pimple just west of the town of Givenchy-en-Gohelle.

The German forces were evacuated off the ridge with German artillery batteries moved west of the Vimy – Bailleul railway embankment or to the Oppy – Méricourt line.

On the west side of the Tödi lies the Sand Glacier or Sandfirn, which descends towards the Sand Alp from the dividing ridge forming the pass to the south.

Hessian soldiers were known to walk to the high ridge north and west of town, where they could purchase and eat apple pies made by the Quakers.

There is further ridge of less higher ground from the west terminating at Sidcup.

It is located along the Troy Cuesta ridge, which runs across the state from east to west and is the boundary that separates the Chunnenuggee Hills and Southern Red Hills geographical boundaries.