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located at the southwestern edge of the Burren region in County Clare, Ireland. They rise 120 metres (390 ft) above the Atlantic Ocean at Hag's Head and reach their maximum height of 214 metres (702 ft) just north of O'Brien's Tower, eight kilometres to the north. A round stone tower near the midpoint of the cliffs was built in 1835 by Sir Cornelius O'Brien. From the cliffs and from atop the tower, visitors can see the Aran Islands in Galway Bay, the Maumturks and Twelve Pins mountain ranges to the north in County Galway, and Loop Head to the south.
Taken on film in 2001, this is a general view of the Pentire headland taken from nearby Rumps Point. The rocks are known geologically as 'Pillow Lava', the result of an ancient volcano. Trevose Head with its lighthouse is in the far distance.
The view (from the other direction) over the 300 foot cliffs from the 2500 year old ring fort Dun Aonghasa on Inishmore, the largest of the Aran Islands
Dunnottar Castle
a wee bit of history 4U... In 1651 Oliver Cromwell`s army besieged the castle. Dunnottar was eventually taken in 1652, but the royalists saved the crown jewels of Scotland by lowering them over the side of the cliff in a basket. The crown, sceptre and sword were likely collected by a woman pretending to gather seaweed, and stored within a fishing creel. The local minister then buried the `Honours of Scotland` in his churchyard until the restoration of the monarchy in 1660.
Oh yeah... and when Mel Gibson played Hamlet there, it is rumoured that pamelaadam was lurking therabouts ;-)
Cliffs of Moher, Co. Clare, Irland, 2006
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Die Cliffs of Moher bilden eine Steilküste im County Clare. Hier geht es teilweise 120m senkrecht in die Tiefe. Direkt am Abgrund verläuft ein kilometerlanger Wanderweg. Hier ist bei starkem Wind zwar Vorsicht angesagt, dafür wird man aber mit einer atemberaubenden Aussicht belohnt.
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The Cliffs of Moher form a cliff in County Clare. Here it is partly 120m vertically in the depth. Directly on the abyss runs a kilometer-long hiking trail. Here, caution is warranted in strong winds, but you will be rewarded with a breathtaking view.
Located on the Colorado Plateau in northern Arizona, Vermilion Cliffs National Monument includes the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness. The Monument borders Kaibab National Forest to the west and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area to the east.
This remote and unspoiled, 280,000-acre Monument is a geologic treasure, containing a variety of diverse landscapes from the Paria Plateau, Vermilion Cliffs, Coyote Buttes, and Paria Canyon. Elevations range from 3,100 to 7,100 feet.
Visitors will enjoy scenic views of towering cliffs and deep canyons. Paria Canyon offers an outstanding three to five day wilderness backpacking experience. The colorful swirls of cross-bedded sandstone in Coyote Buttes are an international hiking destination. There are also opportunities to view wildlife, including California condors. There are two developed campgrounds just outside the Monument: Stateline and White House. Dispersed camping is allowed outside the wilderness area in previously disturbed areas.
A permit is required for hiking in Coyote Buttes North (the Wave), Coyote Buttes South, and for overnight trips within Paria Canyon.
Learn more at: www.blm.gov/az/st/en/prog/blm_special_areas/natmon/vermil...
Photo: Bob Wick, BLM California
Located on the Colorado Plateau in northern Arizona, Vermilion Cliffs National Monument includes the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness. The Monument borders Kaibab National Forest to the west and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area to the east.
This remote and unspoiled, 280,000-acre Monument is a geologic treasure, containing a variety of diverse landscapes from the Paria Plateau, Vermilion Cliffs, Coyote Buttes, and Paria Canyon. Elevations range from 3,100 to 7,100 feet.
Visitors will enjoy scenic views of towering cliffs and deep canyons. Paria Canyon offers an outstanding three to five day wilderness backpacking experience. The colorful swirls of cross-bedded sandstone in Coyote Buttes are an international hiking destination. There are also opportunities to view wildlife, including California condors. There are two developed campgrounds just outside the Monument: Stateline and White House. Dispersed camping is allowed outside the wilderness area in previously disturbed areas.
A permit is required for hiking in Coyote Buttes North (the Wave), Coyote Buttes South, and for overnight trips within Paria Canyon.
Learn more at: www.blm.gov/az/st/en/prog/blm_special_areas/natmon/vermil...
Photo: Bob Wick, BLM California
A rainy day along the beautiful Cingshui Cliffs in the Pacific Coastal region of Taroko National Park in eastern Taiwan. This is along the Chongde Trail. The cliffs are listed as one of the eight wonders of Taiwan. You can see the tunnel for the Suhua Highway on the left.
The train ride up the eastern side of Taiwan is so wonderful!
Looking north towards Valentia Island. To get to this vantage point involved a long trek through boggy moorland and the scaling of several wire fences. There was also a very strong wind. Thankfully, the clouds parted for awhile and the late evening Sun shone gloriously.
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Situated just off England’s South coast and less than 2 hours from London, the Isle of Wight is the perfect holiday destination at any time of year.
Trimingham Cliffs, Norfolk.
I've not ventured this way since the summer of 1978 and a vague memory of a beach party where I was buried up to my neck in the sand and drunk lethal cocktails and beer all night.
Bridgewater.
Captain Grant named this area after the Duke of Bridgewater in 1800. This area was explored by Edward Henty in 1833 two years before he settled at Portland. When he did settle he established one of his six squatting stations or runs at Bridgewater in 1836. He grew potatoes there for a short time which he shipped to the Adelaide markets but he soon abandoned farming here. Then in 1838 Sam Bryant married one of Edward Henty’s sisters Jane and the couple resided on land at Bridgewater. Once the Portland region was officially opened up to white settlement by the NSW government in 1840 it took a couple of years before other white settlers arrived. The first two settlers James Kittson and James Kennedy arrived in 1842 to take up land. By 1860 there were 38 families living at Cape Bridgewater and a Methodist church had earlier been erected in 1858. Two small private schools were operating by 1860 and the first Post Office opened in 1863. A beautiful sandstone Anglican Church was also erected for the settlers at Cape Bridgewater in 1884. It is now upmarket accommodation. Cape Bridgewater is famous for having the highest cliffs in Victoria and the amazing Petrified Forest near the Cape itself. The petrified forest is a series of sandstone tubes that have had their centres eroded out by millions of years of rainfall and weathering. It is a forest because these tubes began as trees which were covered by sand dunes and then gradually transformed into sandstone although some theories now discount the idea that the tubes began as trees. The interior of the tubes eroded quickly as it was just decaying plant matter.
No I am just kidding, I like the shale cliff but it is not my favorite.
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In Madison Township in Lake County, Ohio, on May 12th, 2020, a cliff above Mill Creek as viewed off the "Bluebell Valley Path" trail in Hogback Ridge Metropolitan Park.
Mill Creek flows to the Grand River, which flows to Lake Erie &c.
I am confident that the cliff is composed either entirely or predominantly of Chagrin Shale, a stratigraphic member of the Ohio Shale from the Famennian age (372.2 ±1.6 to 358.9 ±0.4 mya) of the Late Devonian epoch of the Devonian period of the Paleozoic era.
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Wikidata items:
• 12 May 2020 (Q57396738)
• Allegheny Plateau (Q654947)
• Appalachian Plateau (Q620627)
• Chagrin Shale (Q17515425)
• Connecticut Western Reserve (Q1126227)
• county park (Q5177940)
• Erie Drift Plain (Q64072343)
• Erie Gorges (Q64072601)
• Famennian (Q253839)
• Glaciated Allegheny Plateau (Q5566114)
• Greater Cleveland (Q5600502)
• Hogback Ridge Metropolitan Park (Q49502139)
• Lake Erie basin (Q6475771)
• Lake Metroparks (Q84833648)
• Madison Township (Q6728174)
• May 12 (Q2559)
• May 2020 (Q55019753)
• Mill Creek (Q105069615)
• Ohio Shale (Q18158146)
• outcrop (Q531953)
• Southern Great Lakes forests (Q16201663)
• Treaty of Greenville (Q767317)
• Upper Devonian (Q10265844)
Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Parks—Ohio (sh85098185)
• Rivers—Ohio (sh85114372)
Dutch postcard by 't Sticht, Utrecht., nr. AX 6122.
In the late 1950's British singer, actor and Sir Cliff Richard (1940) was known as Britain's answer to Elvis Presley. The ‘Cliff Richard musical’ became the number one cinema box office attraction in Britain for both 1962 and 1963.
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Located on the Colorado Plateau in northern Arizona, Vermilion Cliffs National Monument includes the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness. The Monument borders Kaibab National Forest to the west and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area to the east.
This remote and unspoiled, 280,000-acre Monument is a geologic treasure, containing a variety of diverse landscapes from the Paria Plateau, Vermilion Cliffs, Coyote Buttes, and Paria Canyon. Elevations range from 3,100 to 7,100 feet.
Visitors will enjoy scenic views of towering cliffs and deep canyons. Paria Canyon offers an outstanding three to five day wilderness backpacking experience. The colorful swirls of cross-bedded sandstone in Coyote Buttes are an international hiking destination. There are also opportunities to view wildlife, including California condors. There are two developed campgrounds just outside the Monument: Stateline and White House. Dispersed camping is allowed outside the wilderness area in previously disturbed areas.
A permit is required for hiking in Coyote Buttes North (the Wave), Coyote Buttes South, and for overnight trips within Paria Canyon.
Learn more at: www.blm.gov/az/st/en/prog/blm_special_areas/natmon/vermil...
Photo: Bob Wick, BLM
Le Scogliere di Moher (Aillte an Mhothair, che significa "scogliere della rovina", in gaelico irlandese e, spesso non tradotto, Cliffs of Moher in inglese) sono impressionanti e suggestive scogliere a picco sul mare situate vicino al villaggio di Doolin sulla costa occidentale del Clare, contea della Repubblica d'Irlanda. Meta turistica celebre in tutto il mondo, è uno dei luoghi più visitati dell'isola d'Irlanda. Il punto più alto delle scogliere, che sono lunghe circa otto chilometri, raggiunge i 214 metri d'altezza sull'Oceano Atlantico, mentre la propaggine più meridionale, Hag's Head ("Capo Hag") scende a 120 metri.
Nonostante siano un luogo altamente turistico e ben attrezzato con centro visitatori e parcheggio gestito dalla Shannon Heritage (che gestisce anche la torre O'Brien, un piccolo edificio su una parte della scogliera), ci sono numerosi sentieri non chiusi che entrano in proprietà private e che passano spesso sul precipizio, regolarmente battuti dai visitatori nonostante sia formalmente vietato.
Le scogliere sono situate sulla parte nord-occidentale della costa del Clare, in piena Irlanda occidentale. Possono essere raggiunte via automobile da Galway percorrendo la strada del Burren che passa per Lisdoonvarna fino a Doolin e di lì la stradina panoramica, dato che il villaggio è poco prima delle falesie, oppure dalla strada proveniente da Liscannor (da cui arrivano le strade principali da Ennis e Kilkee).