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Cliff scenery at Kirbuster, Stronsay
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Orkney - Stronsay
Cliff scenery at Kirkbuster, Stronsay, Orkney, showing a Geo or steep-sided sea inlet
08 July 2019
The Gloup at Deerness, Orkney mainland
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Orkney - Deerness and Tankerness
The Gloup at Deerness, Orkney mainland. A gloup is a collapsed sea cave forming a natural arch through which the sea comes into a geo - a steep-sided cleft in the coastline.
07 July 2019
The Gloup at Deerness, Orkney mainland
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Orkney - Deerness and Tankerness
The Gloup at Deerness, Orkney mainland. A gloup is a collapsed sea cave forming a natural arch through which the sea comes into a geo - a steep-sided cleft in the coastline.
07 July 2019
Geo, Bempton Cliffs, East Riding of Yorkshire
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East Riding of Yorkshire
Geo, eroded along a plane of weakness, Bempton chalk cliffs, East Riding of Yorkshire. Taken by Lorna Beattie
04 November 2018
Natural arch of Qui Ayre, Yesnaby, Orkney
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Orkney - Yesnaby
The stack and natural arch of Qui Ayre at Garthna Geo, south of Yesnaby, Orkney, taken by Lorna Beattie
31 March 2018
The Gloup geo at Deerness, Orkney
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Orkney - Deerness and Tankerness
The Gloup, a steep parallel sided inlet known as a geo on the Mull Head local nature reserve at Deerness, Orkney. The Gloup is separated from the sea by a natural arch from which the photo was taken by Lorna Beattie.
01 April 2018
Cleft in the cliffs, Singing Sands, Eigg
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Eigg - Cleadale
Mosses and liverworts grow in the clefts in the cliffs at the Singing Sands, Cleadale, Eigg
30 August 2016
Geo, Brough of Birsay, Orkney
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Orkney - Birsay
A narrow parallel-sided cliff inlet, known as a geo, Brough of Birsay, Orkney
17 May 2014
Cliffs near Brough Head, Caithness
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Caithness - Brough Head and Fulmars
The coastline and cliffs near Brough Head, Nybster, Caithness, where Fulmar petrels (Fulmarus glacialis) nest.
16 May 2013
Walking on Handa
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Sutherland - Handa island SWT Reserve
Walking on a boardwalk on Handa. The boardwalk replaces an earlier path which had been subject to erosion from dozens of visitors every day. Geos (parallel cliff-sided inlets) to the right and the mainland of Sutherland behind.
