On dead reckoning the tall clipper should have been one hundred nautical miles further west, well clear of this treacherous coast with its uncharted hazards and wild deserted shores.

At the beginning of the 19th century, with the construction of lighthouses, Maine's beautiful, treacherous coast became navigable.

But the officials said the smugglers often avoid American warships by hugging Iran's shallow, treacherous coast.

The right of wreck alone yielded 100,000 solidi per annum in revenues from a single rock on the treacherous coast, which an earlier viscount, Guihomar, had called his "most precious stone."

The name Malbay is thought to come from the Irish meall-bhaigh, which roughly means "treacherous coast".

Unlike its namesake in England, this Plymouth was wilderness, with a treacherous coast instead of a harbour.

Martin and his elder brother, Philip, have decided, with parental approval, to canoe some miles along the treacherous Welsh coast.

He is exhausted from fighting the sea and then we had to walk miles and miles up your treacherous coast.

Brother Dellman was glad to be leaving, though, as the ship glided out of the one harbor along the island's treacherous coast.

This was a dangerous, treacherous coast: the steeply shelving beaches and rocky headlands were exposed to a high surf and open to sudden gales.