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틀:Other uses A headland, also known as a head, is a coastal landform, a point of land usually high and often with a sheer drop, that extends into a body of water. It is a type of promontory. A headland of considerable size often is called a cape.[1] Headlands are characterised by high, breaking waves, rocky shores, intense erosion, and steep sea cliff.

Headlands and bays are often found on the same coastline. A bay is flanked by land on three sides, whereas a headland is flanked by water on three sides. Headlands and bays form on discordant coastlines, where bands of rock of alternating resistance run perpendicular to the coast. Bays form when weak (less resistant) rocks (such as sands and clays) are eroded, leaving bands of stronger (more resistant) rocks (such as chalk, limestone, granite) forming a headland, or peninsula. Through the deposition of sediment within the bay and the erosion of the headlands, coastlines eventually straighten out then start the same process all over again.

List of notable headlands 편집

Africa 편집

 
Cape Malabata, Morocco

Asia 편집

Europe 편집

 
Cliffs at Beachy Head, England
 
Land's End, England

North America 편집

 
Hanauma Bay and Koko Crater at Koko Head, O'ahu Island, Hawai'i, USA
 
Point Reyes, California, USA
 
Sydney Heads, NSW, Australia

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Greenland 편집

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South West Cape, Tasmania

Oceania 편집

Australia 편집

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Cape Horn, Chile

South America 편집

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  1. Whittow, John (1984). Dictionary of Physical Geography. London: Penguin, 1984, pp. 80, 246. ISBN 0-14-051094-X.


틀:Coastal geography


Category:Coastal and oceanic landforms Category:Coastal geography