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Headlands and bays
A '''headland''' is an area of [[land]] that is surrounded by [[water]] on three sides.  A '''bay''' is a an area of water. It is surrounded by land on three sides. Very often, the land areas are called ''cape''s. The water areas are also called ''gulf''s. Headlands are made of hard rock and bays are made of soft rock. It takes the hard rock longer to erode. 

A '''bay''' is a holelarge body of water in the land next to a sea or lake between two headlands. The waves coming to the shore in a bay are usually constructive waves, and because of this, many of them have a beach. A bay may be metres across, or it could be hundreds of kilometres across. Bays form where weak rocks, such as sands and clays, are eroded, leaving bands of stronger rocks, such as chalk, limestone, or granite, forming a headland, or peninsula. 

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