Translation for 'chalk cliff' from English to Norwegian

chalk cliff

kalkklippe {m}geogr.

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cliff

klippe {m}

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bird cliff

fuglefjell {n}orn.

chalk

kritt {n}

• Along much of the cliffed coast between Brighton and Newhaven (and beyond to Eastbourne), frost involution structures can be seen in the upper meter of the chalk cliff.
• In Dover, part of the chalk cliff collapsed, taking with it part of Dover Castle.
• The far northern coastline of the country has some chalk landscapes best seen at Rosh HaNikra, a chalk cliff into which a series of grottoes have been eroded.
• To the south is Highdown Cliffs, a near vertical chalk cliff drop of over 100 metres to the sea below.
• The pre-glacial coastline is most marked in the neighbouring village of Beswick, which sits on a degraded chalk cliff.

• The site is situated in an area that features a buried chalk cliff that overlooked a flat beach (which contained a waterhole) stretching approximately half a mile (1 km) south to the sea.
• Funding to do this came from the museum's core budget, funding from a local charity, Chalk Cliff Trust, and Arts Council England's Museums and Schools Programme.
• It is a white chalk cliff face which opens up into spectacular grottos.
• Its northwestern edge is defined by the distinctive white chalk cliff of Freshwater Cliff, named after adjacent Freshwater Bay, which forms a small cove with the village of Freshwater situated just behind.
• It sits above the road to the east of the hamlet, whose name is first found in the form White Cliff in the eighteenth century, referring to the white chalk cliff.

• From the Canche northwards, the dunes tend to extend inland, all the way to the old chalk cliff.
• "Cochylidia rupicola", the chalk-cliff tortrix or conch, is a moth of the family Tortricidae.
• The hamlet's name is first found in the form White Cliff in the eighteenth century, referring to the white chalk cliff above the road to the east of the hamlet, which has the Whiteleaf Cross cut into the chalk on the side of Whiteleaf Hill above it, making an important landmark for miles around.
• The Lewes avalanche occurred on 27 December 1836 in Lewes, East Sussex, when a huge build-up of snow on a chalk cliff overlooking the town collapsed into the settlement 100 metres below, destroying a row of cottages and killing eight people.
• A chalk cliff face at the back of the cove slows further erosion.

• Part of the chalk cliff near the lower terminus collapsed in 1957, forcing the railway's closure while a strengthening concrete wall was built.
• The film is named after the distinctive area of chalk cliff between Seaford and Cuckmere Haven.
• Stevns is best known for Stevns Klint, a white chalk cliff stretching [...] along the coast.
• Kingsdown is located at the northern end of the White Cliffs of Dover; the village itself sits below the chalk cliff and in the valleys leading down to the shore, with some outlying buildings and the holiday camp on top or midway up.