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Byzantine coins with the mark of Anastasius I, dating back to c. 498–518, were retrieved from the beach in 1970. [4] More recent human occupation of Exmouth Point can be traced back to the 11th century, [5] when it was known as Lydwicnaesse, "the point of the Bretons".
Federal division (s) Durack. Exmouth (/ ˈɛksmaʊθ / EX-mowth[a]) is a town on the tip of the North West Cape and on Exmouth Gulf in Western Australia, 1,124 kilometres (698 mi) north of the state capital Perth and 2,060 kilometres (1,280 mi) southwest of Darwin. [3][4] The town was established in 1967 to support the nearby United States ...
Location. Straight Point is about 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) south of the city of Exeter, 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) southeast of Exmouth and about 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) southwest of Sidmouth . The top of the headland is used by the Royal Marines as a firing range. To the west is Sandy Bay, a holiday beach, that can be reached either along the coastal ...
Location of Jurassic Coast in England. The Jurassic Coast (also Dorset and East Devon Coast) is a World Heritage Site on the English Channel coast of southern England. It stretches from Exmouth in East Devon to Studland Bay in Dorset, a distance of about 96 miles (154 km), and was inscribed on the World Heritage List in mid-December 2001. [1]
The cliffs to the east side of Straight Point show an interesting sequence of Exmouth Formation sandstones. However, only a small part of the coast line is accessible and solely at low tide by walking along the wave-cut ledges from Littleham Cove. These ledges are full of pot-holes and there is a cave near Otter Cove.
Orcombe Point - The furthest Western extremity of Sandy Bay. Orcombe Point is a coastal feature near Exmouth, Devon, on the south coast of England. It lies about 10 mi (16 km) south of the city of Exeter, 2 mi (3.2 km) southeast of Exmouth town centre and about 7.5 mi (12.1 km) southwest of Sidmouth. Directly to the west lies Exmouth Beach and ...
Exmouth Gulf. Exmouth Gulf is a gulf in the north-west of Western Australia. It lies between North West Cape and the main coastline of Western Australia. It is considered to be part of the Pilbara Coast and Northwest Shelf, and the Carnarvon Basin geologic formation. It was named after Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth by Phillip Parker King ...
The Exmouth Plateau is an elongate northeast striking extensional passive margin located in the Indian Ocean roughly 3,000 meters offshore from western and northwestern Western Australia. The plateau makes up the westernmost structural unit of the Northern Carnarvon Basin, which comprises the Exmouth, Barrow, Dampier, and Beagle Sub-basins, and ...