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Field photograph·C00488

Kyrenia Mountains

Coastline below the Kyrenia Mountains, with a sandy bay, a offshore rock stack and scrub-covered slopes.
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C00488. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A curving sandy beach runs along the left of the frame beside calm sea with small breaking waves. A single upright rock stands just offshore, and steep scrub-covered slopes rise on the right. Long ridges of hills stretch into the hazy distance under a pale sky.

Other scan of this record (1)

  • Rocky coastline with a sea stack and a curving pebble beach, with mountains rising behind in the Kyrenia Mountains
Description, scan 2
A view from a steep, scrubby slope down onto a curving pebble beach and the sea, with waves breaking near a tall rock stack offshore. Bushes cover the slopes in the foreground and right, and long, rounded mountains rise across the middle distance under a pale, hazy sky.

English, translated from the original record

Mountains, bushes and water in the Kyrenia Mountains.

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Photographs: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm (CC0)