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Tread the sand of Laguna Beach past Halfway Rock to Cactus Point, the latter a rocky promontory with a tunnel near the surf line.

Native Americans built their villages across this promontory, and Malaga Cove has been a settlement for at least seven millennia.

First responders undergo special training in how to fight blazes in structures like Odesa’s sumptuous opera house, perched on a promontory above the seafront.

Its promontory along 35th Avenue Southwest oversees northern West Seattle and boasts a commanding view of downtown.

They also collected wood and charcoal from the settlement’s lowest, and therefore earliest, layers, which were visible as bands of black organic material in the promontory’s white sand.