| The landscape comprised hill massifs separated by valleys, with side valleys separating submassifs. |
| Any view of the ocean itself is cut off by two massifs of 300-million-year-old limestone jutting nearly a thousand feet out of the sea. |
| The regions of the inside corner strips between the massifs have a very different bathymetric character from the massifs. |
| The terrain is very rough, with an array of canyons, cliffy massifs, and stony substrates. |
| They are characteristic of the granitic uplands or moors of south-western England and of other Hercynian massifs in western and central Europe. |
| Garibaldi Hill and St. George's Hill form two smaller, isolated massifs in the west. |
