Chalk cliffs of the Côte d'Albâtre

The Côte d'Albâtre is the French coastal region of the Pays de Caux, on the English Channel. Made up of 130 kilometers of seashore and cliffs, interspersed with some sixty valleys.

The name "Côte d'Albâtre", given by English sailors in the early 19th century, refers to the milky-white color of the sea at the foot of the high cliffs when the chalk of which they are made dissolves.

Between the 30 to 120 m-high cliffs (the most famous of which are those at Étretat), valleys, or hanging valleys of small coastal rivers, have formed.