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A narrow piece of land, usually with steep cliffs, that projects out from the coastline into the sea, formed where a band of resistant rock erodes more slowly than the softer rock in an adjoining bay. Headlands and the bays beside them commonly alternate along a coastline where alternating bands of hard and soft rock meet the sea at an angle.
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