With much of its cliffed coast still active it represents an important landscape in the West Pomeranian Lagoon Area National Park and is part of protection zone II . Numerous footpaths run through its varied countryside.
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To the west and east its boundaries are more obvious : on the one side is its active cliffed coast on the Baltic, and on the other the coastline alongside the Saaler Bodden, only a few centimetres above sea level.
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The northern part has a'hard'cliffed coast of spectacular high cliffs, offshore islands and rocky headlands, whilst the southern strip is a'soft'alluvial coast of wide, sweeping sandy bays backed by sand dunes and intertidal flats backed by saltmarsh.
