It is very localized on the coastal slope, but widespread in the deserts.

It lies along the coastal slopes which rise from the Atlantic Ocean towards the interior central plateau of the island.

The terrain includes low coastal plains and swamplands, high mountains and steep coastal slopes.

One feature is the forest on the coastal slopes.

The town liies on the coastal slopes at the southern end of the Stubnitz, a 7.5 kilometre-long and up to four-kilometre-wide beech forest.

Lives in seagrass habitats and coastal slopes with sponges.

A memorial cross to the dead can be seen on the coastal slope near Carminowe Creek.

But still the coastal slope had a different feel to it than the inland bowl.

Arctostaphylos silvicola grows in coniferous forest and chaparral on the sandy coastal slopes.

Portions of the same limestone avalanches that came rest to further up the coastal slopes are featured at Cow Head.