White cliffs
Like Dover's.
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Cap Blanc-Nez, Cape White Nose, is a cape on the Opal Coast in the Pas-de-Calais department of northern France, rising to 134 metres, about 11 km west of Calais in a straight line. The name comes from the Dutch for white headland. Its chalk cliffs look very much like the White Cliffs of Dover across the Channel in England. Rather than jutting into the sea like a typical cape, it is a high point where the sea has cut through a chalk ridge to form a cliff. In the 18th century it was a key measuring point in the trigonometric survey that linked the Paris Observatory with the Royal Greenwich Observatory, with sightings made across the Channel to Dover Castle. White cliffs drop from high green meadows to a long sandy beach and grey-blue water, and on clear days the English cliffs at Dover appear on the horizon. Cap Gris-Nez lies 16 km to the southwest, and the water between the two capes is the Bay of Wissant. Visitors walk the meadow paths above the cliffs, watching the coast and ships crossing the Channel, and some go down to the beach at Wissant. It is exposed to the wind, so bring a jacket; at sunset the light turns the cliffs golden.
Like Dover's.
A long beach.
Passing ships.
Escalles, Pas-de-Calais, France
Yes, the Dover cliffs on clear days.
Cap Gris-Nez.