Promontory

As a point of land is called a far- projecting into a sea part of the country. The transition to the Cape Peninsula and is fluent.

Among the prominent headlands in Western Europe include Land's End to Cornwall (southwest England), which ends in Cape Cornwall, the Cotentin in northern France, the Punta de Sagres Peninsula on Portugal's Algarve and Cape Peñas in Asturias, northern tip of Spain.

In the north of Germany include the often very pronounced ends of the Frisian Islands to mention eiderstedt in Schleswig -Holstein, numerous peaks in the Danish-German area of ​​the Baltic and the Vistula Spit in Gdansk.

The extreme end of a headland is often called the Cape, but also have small projections on otherwise straight coastline that name. Of the known capes are some the end very pronounced headlands - for example, in America:

• Cape Canaveral (Florida ), Cape Charles to the promontory of Maryland to the Chesapeake Bay, Punta Penas in Trinidad, Punta Negra in western Peru and Isla de los Estados / Cape San Diego in front of Tierra del Fuego
• Other examples in other continents Cyprus 80 km long, narrow foothills to the east, the Gallipoli Peninsula at the Dardanelles, Pelican punt off the Namibian Walvis Bay, Shiretoko Misaki in Hokkaido, Japan, and the Ninety Miles to the north of New Zealand.

Hoeft

If material is brought by water on two sides, the flow forces weaken each other and there is via the intermediate stage of beach ridges a headland as Hoeft: is called (male, plural Höfts, from Low German höft = main or head). An example of this is the Geltinger Birk at the output of the Flensburg Fjord.