wind-hollowed

Three hundred feet in width, hard as stone, shell-strewn, between wind-hollowed sand-dunes and foaming surf, this beach of Cumberland stretches for twenty miles.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various

In the beach-hammock are the same wind-hollowed hills, rooted into permanence by twisted oaks and magnolias.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various

Then Attenborough and his team followed the route of Scott and Amundsen to the Pole, delving into ice-caves around an Antarctic volcano, diving beneath the ice to find upside-down landscapes of plunging stalactites and weird ice-fish and "a relative of the woodlouse as big as a dinner plate", and flying across a strange ice-free land, filled with wind-hollowed boulders.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Tom Chivers 2011