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Cap Canaille, France, 394 m above Mediterranean sea is the highest sea cliff in France; The Kame, Foula, Shetland, 376 m above the North Atlantic, second highest sea cliff in the UK; St John's Head, Hoy, Orkney, 335m above the North Atlantic, highest purely vertical sea cliff in the UK [1] Hangman cliffs, Devon 318 m above Bristol Channel is ...
Cap Canaille (French pronunciation: [kap kanaj]) is a headland in Calanques National Park in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in Southern France, on the Mediterranean coast between the towns of Cassis and La Ciotat. It is about 27 km (16 mi) southeast of the city centre of Marseille. At 394 m (1,293 ft), it is the highest sea cliff of France.
Europe's highest cliff, Troll Wall in Norway, a famous BASE jumping location for jumpers from around the world. At all geography and geology, a cliff or rock face is an area of rock which has a general angle defined by the vertical, or nearly vertical. Cliffs are formed by the processes of weathering and erosion, with the effect of gravity.
Pages in category "Cliffs of France" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. F. Falaises d'Entrecasteaux
The following is a sortable table of the 37 peaks of continental France with a topographical prominence of at least 1,000 metres (3,300 ft). This table includes all Ultras with prominence of at least 1,500 m (4,900 ft) within continental France.
One source claims that the top of the Chapel of Saint-Michel is the highest point in Brittany [7] however the Émetteur de Roc'h Trédudon is 3 m higher at 383 m. If structures on top of these hills are included, the Émetteur de Roc'h Trédudon is even higher, with a 220m antenna on the summit.
The Vercors Massif lies in the Prealps, in the south-east France, straddling the departments of Drôme and Isère, both of which are part of the Rhône-Alpes region, about 100 kilometres (62 miles) south-east of Lyon. The massif covers 135,000 hectares (520 sq mi) with a north-south length of 60 kilometres (37 miles) and an east-west width of ...
Cap Blanc-Nez (French pronunciation: [kap blɑ̃ ne], literally "Cape White Nose" in English; from Dutch Blankenesse, white headland) is a cape on the Côte d'Opale, in the Pas-de-Calais département, in northern France, culminating at 134 m. The cliffs of chalk are very similar to the white cliffs of Dover on the other side of the Channel in ...