word | | Terrain |
| cliffs | Malta | mostly low, rocky, flat to dissected plains; many coastal cliffs |
| cliffs | Navassa Island | raised coral and limestone plateau, flat to undulating; ringed by vertical white cliffs (9 to 15 m high) |
| cliffs | Niue | steep limestone cliffs along coast, central plateau |
| cliffs | Pitcairn Islands | rugged volcanic formation; rocky coastline with cliffs |
| cliffs | Saint Helena | ... and cinder cones of 44 dormant volcanoes; ground rises to the east Tristan da Cunha: sheer cliffs line the coastline of the nearly circular island; the flanks of the central volcanic peak ... |
| clockwise | Arctic Ocean | ... on average, is about 3 meters thick, although pressure ridges may be three times that thickness; clockwise drift pattern in the Beaufort Gyral Stream, but nearly straight-line movement from the New ... |
| clockwise | Atlantic Ocean | ... in Labrador Sea, Denmark Strait, and coastal portions of the Baltic Sea from October to June; clockwise warm-water gyre (broad, circular system of currents) in the northern Atlantic, counterclockwise warm-water ... |
| clockwise | Pacific Ocean | surface currents in the northern Pacific are dominated by a clockwise, warm-water gyre (broad circular system of currents) and in the southern Pacific by a counterclockwise, cool-water gyre; in the ... |
| coast | Albania | mostly mountains and hills; small plains along coast |
| coast | Bouvet Island | volcanic; coast is mostly inaccessible |
| coast | Christmas Island | steep cliffs along coast rise abruptly to central plateau |
| coast | Cyprus | central plain with mountains to north and south; scattered but significant plains along southern coast |
| coast | European Union | fairly flat along the Baltic and Atlantic coast; mountainous in the central and southern areas |
| coast | Faroe Islands | rugged, rocky, some low peaks; cliffs along most of coast |
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