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The cliff face, which reaches a height of 350 feet (110 m), owes its striking appearance to its composition of chalk accented by streaks of black flint, deposited during the Late Cretaceous. The cliffs, on both sides of the town of Dover in Kent, stretch for eight miles (13 km). The White Cliffs of Dover form part of the North Downs.
Hangman cliffs, Devon 318 m above Bristol Channel is the highest sea cliff in England; Benwee Head Cliffs, Erris, County Mayo, Ireland, 304 m above Atlantic Ocean; Dingli Cliffs, Malta, 250 m above Mediterranean sea; High Cliff, between Boscastle and St Gennys, 223 m above Celtic Sea [2] Cliffs of Moher, Ireland, 217 m above Atlantic Ocean
At their southern end, they rise 120 metres (390 ft) above the Atlantic Ocean at Hag's Head, and, 8 kilometres (5 miles) to the north, they reach their maximum height of 214 metres (702 ft) just north of O'Brien's Tower, [4] a round stone tower near the midpoint of the cliffs, built in 1835 by Sir Cornelius O'Brien, [2] [5] then continue at ...
Capel-le-Ferne / ˌ k eɪ p əl l ə ˈ f ɜːr n / is a village on the White Cliffs of Dover, near Folkestone in Kent, England. Its name derives from a medieval French term meaning "chapel in the ferns". In 2011 the village had a population of 1,884. [1] It is perched on top of the White Cliffs of Dover.
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The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the summit above a geodetic sea level. The first table below ranks the 20 highest summits of Missouri by elevation. The topographic prominence of a summit is a measure of how high the summit rises above its surroundings. The second table below ranks the 20 most prominent summits of ...
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The tunnels were abandoned in the 1950s and filled in with debris in the 1970s. In 2012 the tunnels were rediscovered by the National Trust after purchasing this section of the cliffs. The restoration work, carried over 18 months, included removal of 100 tonnes of rubble. [5] The tunnels were opened to the public on 20 July 2015.