A Pentagon study released last week portrayed a growing threat to Taiwan from a buildup of missiles along the Chinese coast facing Taiwan.
Mission Peak is coast facing and is an interior mountain and therefore has excellent views of both sides.
Their objective was to secure a fifty-mile deep strip along the coast facing Long Island.
The island is roughly a parallelogram in shape, with long east and west coasts and shorter coasts facing northwest and southeast.
The south coast, facing the Caribbean, is milder and better for swimming.
This base was built on the island's southwestern coast facing Sulu, an area already thickly populated by Tausug traders and fisherfolk.
It lies on the flat, sandy coast facing the Arabian Sea just north of the Indus River delta.
Although the city is inland, the municipality stretches to a southern coast facing the Caribbean.
It is on the coast facing the Huang Hai.
The area of coast facing Southport is known as the Broadwater.