The six-kilometres finger of sand juts out into the Humber Estuary from the Holderness coast.

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Then it was as if an invisible yet intensely heated finger were drawn through the heather between me and the Martians, and all along a curving line beyond the sand pits the dark ground smoked and crackled.

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