The commandos had to climb a 350ft m tall cliff to reach their objective.

This phenomenon was first recognised and studied there; since the last ice age the land has risen 800 m, which accounts for the unusual landscape with tall cliff formations.

Tall cliffs fell sheer into the sea on all sides and other islands floated on the horizon in the evening light, as grey and distant as breaching whales.

Being on a northeast-facing shore and at the base of some tall cliffs.

It contains large alkali lakes and tall cliffs, some with a prominence of more than 2000 ft.