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The Shore temple is on the protuberance along the coastline shown with blue colored sea water / beach boundary.
Other monuments which are also a part of the UNESCO site are shown kilometers away on both sides of the central main hill, and between the main hill and the Shore temple.
For more information, controversies and discussion, please see Jennifer Howes, Illustrating India: The Early Colonial Investigations of Colin Mackenzie(1784-1821), Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0198064411.