The coast is characterised by cliffs, glacier-headed fjords and deep anchorages.
There are no safe anchorages.
The coastline is smooth with few anchorages.
There are no good anchorages.
Next, the anchorages are built on both ends, usually of reinforced concrete with embedded steel eyebars to which the cables will be fastened.
Such charts, often known as portolans named for the portolano or pilot book, listing sailing courses, ports, and anchorages, were much in demand for the increasing trade and shipping.
The bridge measures 8,344 feet (2,543 m) between the main anchorages.
While the Japanese were still resisting on Saipan, the Japanese Combined Fleet, under Admiral Ozawa Jisaburō, was approaching from Philippine and East Indian anchorages, in accordance with "Operation A," to challenge the U.S. 5th Fleet, under Admiral Raymond Spruance.
These loads are transferred both to the towers, which carry them by vertical compression to the ground, and to the anchorages, which must resist the inward and sometimes vertical pull of the cables.
Anchorages are at Gōnoura (the chief town), Katsumoto, and Ashibe.
The island is triangular, the apex (called the cape) being a rocky headland separating the harbour of Goa into two anchorages.
