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Látrabjarg cliffs, Westfjords, Iceland
Látrabjarg cliffs is Europe's largest bird cliff, 14 km long and up to 441 m high
With unstable cliff of vertical drop for few hundred feet, it offers intimidating view of rugged seashore.
From Wikipedia:
"Cliff Palace is the largest cliff dwelling in North America. The structure built by the Ancestral Puebloans is located in Mesa Verde National Park in their former homeland region. The cliff dwelling and park are in the southwestern corner of Colorado, in the Southwestern United States.
Tree-ring dating indicates that construction and refurbishing of Cliff Palace was continuous approximately from 1190 CE through 1260 CE, although the major portion of the building was done within a 20-year time span. The Ancestral Pueblo that constructed this cliff dwelling and the others like it at Mesa Verde were driven to these defensible positions by "increasing competition amidst changing climatic conditions". Cliff Palace was abandoned by 1300, and while debate remains as to the causes of this, some believe that a series of megadroughts interrupting food production systems is the main cause. Cliff Palace was rediscovered in 1888 by Richard Wetherill and Charlie Mason while out looking for stray cattle."
9 different types of highly detailed rock formations – various cliff covers, ramp, platform. This is 100 % mesh items with custom physics (great for combat sims), material viewer ready, 512 and 1024 pix texture versions.
Home again to Oregon but had lovely time in Ireland. Here are a couple shots of the cliffs. More time and I'd have walked further, though the steep parts were scary.