A thought.

[mockney piers]

touch?

[Huguenot]

That's spectacular! I can't remember why we didn't join you walking there last year.

[ianr]

> Can you pack in salient points? Doesn't a salient point need to stand out, rather than pack in?

Well, yes, you can. If you look at the online OED, even in some of the earlier more specialised uses of the word (eg as a local maximum (even minimum?) point in a graph, the interface of planes in a jewel stone, a geographical feature) there's nothing to indicate that it has to be limited to a single overbearing instance. Even the earliest use cited in the 'modern' general sense, from Carlyle's Heroes and hero worship (1840), talking about Shakespeare's history plays, is in the plural: "There are really, if we look to it, few as memorable Histories. The great salient points are admirably seized."

Whether each of the peaks in Mockney's pic are salients is, I guess, a matter of the granularity of the usage in that particular domain.