What is Headland?
[[File:Beachy Head and Lighthouse, East Sussex, England - April 2010 crop horizon corrected.jpg|thumb|right|Cliffs at [[Beachy Head]], England]] [[File:Land's End - geograph.org.uk - 171343.jpg|thumb|[[Land's End]], England]] A '''headland''' is an area of [[land]] that is surrounded by [[water]] on three sides. Very often, the land areas are called ''cape''s. A '''bay''' is an area of water. It is surrounded by land on three sides. The water areas are also called ''gulf''s.<ref>Whittow, John (1984). ''Dictionary of Physical Geography''. London: Penguin, 1984, pp. 80, 246. {{ISBN|0-14-051094-X}}.</ref> Headlands are formed when there are parallel sections of softer and harder rock perpendicular to the coast. The sea erodes the softer rock faster than the harder rock, forming a bay. The harder rock that is left protruding into the sea is the headland. ==References== {{reflist}} {{geo-stub}} [[Category:Landforms]]