Is it the physical landscape that attracts tourists to Swanage and Studland?"

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It this enquiry I will try and answer this question “Is it the physical landscape that attracts tourists to Swanage and Studland?”

We visited two locations one was Swanage and the other was Studland.

      Swanage is in the south of England, its population is around 9,000, Swanage is surrounded by the purbeck hills to the north and south, Corfe valley is to the west and Swanage bay to the east.

    Within the town there is a lot of open space over 100 acres, there is a railway many pubs and restraints and a theatre.

Swanage beach is around a mile long and is stopped by the island of purbeck; the cliffs are 300 feet high.

     The number of tourists that can be accommodated in a season is 240,500, a season is 26 weeks between April and October and the number of day visitors is around 864,000 in a season.

 Studland is an the south of England, the beach is around 4 miles long it starts from south haven point through shell bay and around pilots point. This area is extremely important as it is home to many rare species of plants, animals, birds and insects.

      Studland has both types of dunes (mobile and static), the front ridge is mobile and behind is the static, and there are a number of ponds with the area

 

                                                                                                        Studland

                                                                                                   Swanage

                                                                                               

                                                                                                         Studland

                                                                                      Swanage

                                                                                                   

                                                                                                 

                                                                                                       

                                                                                                 

                                                                                                                       Old Harry

                                                                           

In Swanage and Studland there are several geographical landforms like caves, arches and stacks, cliffs and wave cut platforms, headlands and bays and sea defenses.

In this section I will explain all of these features

Caves, Arches and  Stacks

As waves erode cliffs, they work faster on the weaker rocks, carrying them away and leaving the stronger rocks behind. This results in caves.

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Sometimes, as the waves smash into the caves, they squash the air inside the caves and it finds a way though weak rock in the roof. The place where air comes through the top of the headland is called a blowhole. They are quite rare.

If caves form on two sides of a headland, then the caves may erode through and meet. When this happens, the sea can get right through the headland. It results in an arch. Arches are much less common than caves.

An arch eventually wears away and the roof collapses. The seaward side of ...

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