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Name
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The Coastline
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Description
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A hundred miles of coastline for an island thirty miles long and ten miles wide. The shoreline twists in and out of coves and bays, rises into cliffs, drops to beaches of sand or shingle or bare rock. The cliffs at Spanish Head still drop three hundred feet to the sea, as they did before the Vikings. The western coast takes the weather, prevailing winds from the southwest carrying moisture accumulated over hundreds of miles of open Atlantic. The geography made the running trade possible: close enough to all four coasts that a fast boat could make the crossing in a night, far enough that the revenue cruisers could not easily extend their reach.
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Type
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Coastline
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Landscape
