Peninsula

A peninsula (Latin: paenīnsula, "paene-": almost + "īnsula": island; also called a byland or biland) is a piece of land that is bordered by water on three sides but connected to mainland. In many Germanic and Celtic languages and also in Baltic, Slavic and Hungarian, peninsulas are called "half-islands". A peninsula can also be a headland (head), cape, island promontory, bill, point, or spit.^[1] Note that a point is generally considered a tapering piece of land projecting into a body of water that is less prominent than a cape.^[2]

Contents 1 Oceania 1.1 Australia 1.2 New Zealand 1.3 Papua New Guinea 2 Europe 2.1 Balkan Peninsula 2.2 Denmark 2.3 Italy 2.4 Iberian Peninsula 2.5 Scandinavian Peninsula 2.6 Turkey 2.7 United Kingdom 2.7.1 England 2.7.2 Scotland 2.7.3 Wales 2.7.4 Northern Ireland 2.8 Republic of Ireland 2.9 Russia 2.10 Other countries in Europe 3 Asia 3.1 Kazakhstan 3.2 Eastern Mediterranean 3.3 Persian Gulf 3.4 Indian subcontinent and South Asia 3.5 China 3.6 Korea 3.7 Japan 3.7.1 Kyūshū 3.7.2 Honshū 3.7.3 Hokkaido 4 South East Asia 4.1 Philippines 4.2 Indonesia 4.3 Vietnam 5 North America 5.1 Canada 5.2 United States 5.2.1 Alaska 5.2.2 California 5.2.3 Florida 5.2.4 Michigan 5.2.5 New Jersey 5.2.6 New York 5.2.7 Utah 5.2.8 Virginia 5.2.9 Other states 5.3 Greenland 5.4 Mexico 6 South America 6.1 Other countries in South America 7 Caribbean 8 Africa 9 Antarctica 10 References

Oceania

Australia

Beecroft Peninsula, New South Wales Bellarine Peninsula, Victoria Cape York Peninsula, Queensland Cobourg Peninsula, Northern Territory Cronulla sand dunes, Kurnell Peninsula Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia Eyre Peninsula, South Australia Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia Freycinet Peninsula, Tasmania Inskip Peninsula, Queensland

Jervis Bay Territory Mornington Peninsula, Victoria Redcliffe, Queensland Stockton, New South Wales Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania Tasmania itself was once a peninsula connected to Australia during the great Ice Ages Wilsons Promontory, Victoria Woy Woy, New South Wales Yorke Peninsula, South Australia Younghusband Peninsula, South Australia

New Zealand

Aupouri Peninsula, North Island Banks Peninsula, South Island Bluff Peninsula, South Island Bream Head, North Island Cape of Brandon Conde, South Island Cape Brett, North Island Cape Campbell, South Island Cape Foulwind, South Island Cape Kidnappers, North Island Cape Turnagain, North Island Coromandel Peninsula, North Island

Farewell Spit, South Island Kaikoura Peninsula, South Island Karikari Peninsula, North Island Mahia Peninsula, North Island Miramar Peninsula, North Island Mount Maunganui, North Island North Auckland Peninsula, North Island Otago Peninsula, South Island Tiwai Point, South Island

Papua New Guinea

Gazelle Peninsula, New Britain

Huon Peninsula

Europe

• Europe is sometimes considered to be a large peninsula extending off Eurasia. It is composed of many peninsulas, the four main component peninsulas being the Iberian, Scandinavian, Italian, and Balkan peninsulas.

Balkan Peninsula

The Balkans is a peninsula including Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and the European part of Turkey.

Chalkidiki, Greece Kassandra, Greece Mani Peninsula, Greece Mount Athos, Greece Peloponnese, Greece (now an island, since the Corinth Canal was made) Sithonia, Greece Pilio, Greece

Istria, Croatia/Slovenia Piran Peninsula, Slovenia Pelješac, Croatia Prevlaka, Croatia Split, Croatia Zadar, Croatia Karaburun Peninsula, Albania Luštica, Montenegro Gallipoli, Turkey

Denmark

Jutland Peninsula, which forms the western half of the country. Djursland Grenen Helgenæs Horne Land Hornsherred

Hindsholm Kegnæs Mols Odsherred Salling Stevns Peninsula

Italy

• Italian Peninsula
• Calabria
• Penisola Salentina
• Promontorio del Gargano
• Sorrentine Peninsula
• Promontorio di Orbetello

Iberian Peninsula

Encompassing continental Spain and Portugal, Andorra, British overseas territory of Gibraltar and a small amount of southern France.

Lisbon Peninsula, Portugal Setúbal peninsula, Portugal Peniche, Portugal Cabo Espichel, Portugal Cabo Carvoeiro, Portugal Cabo de São Vicente, Portugal Tróia Peninsula, Portugal

Gibraltar Cádiz, Spain A Coruña, Spain O Morrazo, Spain Anaga, Spain Jandía, Spain La Isleta, Spain

Scandinavian Peninsula

Encompassing present-day Sweden, Norway, and part of Finland.

Bygdøy, Norway Fornebulandet, Norway Fosen, Norway Hamarøyhalvøya, Norway Hurumlandet, Norway Lista, Norway Lyngenhalvøya, Norway Nordkinn Peninsula, Norway

Nesodden, Norway Ofothalvøya, Norway Porsangerhalvøya, Norway Scania, Sweden Snarøya, Norway Stad, Norway Sværholthalvøya, Norway Södertörn, Sweden Varangerhalvøya, Norway

Turkey

• Anatolian Peninsula
• Thracian Peninsula
• Gallipoli Peninsula
• Karaburun Peninsula
• Dilek Peninsula
• Datça Peninsula

United Kingdom

• During the great Ice Ages, all of Great Britain was a peninsula, extending north west from the mainland of Europe/France. The English Channel did not exist at that time.

England

Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, and Dorset - the South West Peninsula, or the West Country, or Wessex Dengie peninsula, Essex The centre of the city of Durham, County Durham The Fylde, Lancashire Hoo, Kent Isle of Dogs, London Greenwich Peninsula, London Gosport, Hampshire

The Lizard, Cornwall Manhood Peninsula, West Sussex Morte Point, North Devon Penwith, Cornwall Isle of Purbeck, Dorset Isle of Portland, Dorset Rotherhithe, London Spurn, Yorkshire Tendring, Essex Wirral, Cheshire and Merseyside

Scotland

Ardnamurchan, Lochaber Black Isle, Ross and Cromarty Cowal, Argyll and Bute Doonie Point, Aberdeenshire Dunnet Head, Caithness Faraid Head, Sutherland Fife

Kintyre, Argyll and Bute Knoydart, Lochaber The Machars, Dumfries and Galloway Morvern, Lochaber Rhins of Galloway, Dumfries and Galloway Strathy Point, Sutherland Point of Hellia, Orkney Point, Outer Hebrides

Wales

Creuddyn Peninsula juts out of the North Wales coast and includes the towns of Llandudno, Rhos-on-Sea and Deganwy. Plus the headlands of Great Orme and Little Orme Gower Peninsula, Swansea Llŷn Peninsula Marloes Peninsula, Pembrokeshire

Pembrokeshire peninsula, West Wales South Pembrokeshire Peninsula. St Davids Head, Pembrokeshire South West Wales - Swansea to New Quay - surrounded by the Bristol Channel, St George's Channel and Cardigan Bay

Northern Ireland

Ards Peninsula, County Down Island Magee

Lecale Peninsula Ramore Head, Portrush

Republic of Ireland

Achill Head Peninsula Donegal Munster - like Ulster, Munster is surrounded on three sides by the sea Beara Peninsula Cooley Peninsula Dingle Peninsula Fanad Peninsula Hook Peninsula

Horn Head Howth Peninsula Inishowen Iveragh Peninsula Loop Head Peninsula Mizen Head Peninsula Mullet Peninsula Old Head of Kinsale Rosguill Sheep's Head Peninsula

Russia

Chukotka Peninsula Curonian Spit, Kaliningrad Oblast (shared with Lithuania) Kamchatka Peninsula Kola Peninsula Rybachy Peninsula

Samland peninsula, Kaliningrad Oblast Taymyr Peninsula Vistula Spit, Kaliningrad Oblast (shared with Poland) Yamal Peninsula

Other countries in Europe

Apsheron, Azerbaijan Au peninsula, Au, Zurich, Switzerland Brittany, France Butjadingen, Germany Cotentin Peninsula, France Crimea, Ukraine Fischland-Darß-Zingst, Germany

Hel Peninsula, Poland Karpass Peninsula, Cyprus North Holland, Netherlands Kakumäe Peninsula, Estonia Sõrve Säär, Estonia Walcheren, Netherlands Zuid-Beveland, Netherlands Tihany, Hungary

Asia

Kazakhstan

• Mangyshlak Peninsula

Eastern Mediterranean

Asia Minor Beirut, Lebanon El Mina, Lebanon Haifa, Israel Acre, Israel Sinai Peninsula, Egypt Kapidagi Yarimadasi, Turkey Datça Peninsula, Turkey Side Peninsula, Turkey

Persian Gulf

• Arabian Peninsula; Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Oman
• Qatar
• Al-Faw peninsula, Iraq
• Musandam peninsula; Oman, United Arab Emirates

Indian subcontinent and South Asia

• Indostanic Peninsula: The Indian subcontinent is itself a peninsula.
• Colaba peninsula, Mumbai
• Deccan peninsula
• Worli peninsula, Mumbai
• Kathiawar Peninsula, Gujarat
• Gwadar peninsula, Pakistan
• Jaffna Peninsula, Northern Sri Lanka

China

• Kowloon Peninsula, (Hong Kong)
• Leizhou Peninsula
• Liaodong Peninsula
• Shandong Peninsula
• Fan Lau, (Hong Kong)
• Sai Kung Peninsula, (Hong Kong)
• Stanley Peninsula, (Hong Kong)
• Chi Ma Wan Peninsula, (Hong Kong)
• Chung Hom Kok Peninsula, (Hong Kong)
• Wan Tsai Peninsula

Korea

The whole land mass encompassing North and South Korea is a peninsula, surrounded by the East Sea (Sea of Japan), on the east, the East China Sea, to the south, and the Yellow Sea to the west, the Korea Strait connecting the first two bodies of water.

Japan

Kyūshū

Nishi-sonogi-hanto Kunisaki-hanto

Satsuma-hanto Osumi-hanto

Honshū

Oshika-hanto Noto-hanto Oga-hanto

Miura-hato Boso-hanto

Hokkaido

• Shiretoko Peninsula
• Shakotan Peninsula

South East Asia

Malay Peninsula

Indochina peninsula

Philippines

Bataan Peninsula, Luzon Bicol Peninsula, Luzon Caramoan Peninsula, Bicol Bondoc Peninsula, Luzon Cavite City, Luzon

San Ildefonso Peninsula, Luzon Zamboanga Peninsula, Mindanao Tinaca Point, Davao del Sur Pujada Peninsula, Mindanao

Indonesia

Poluostrov Yamau Semenanjung Blambangan, Java, Semenanjung Minahassa, Sulawesi

East Peninsula, Sulawesi South-east Peninsula, Sulawesi South Peninsula, Sulawesi

Vietnam

Cà Mau Peninsula, Cà Mau Province Hòn Gốm Peninsula, Da Lat City Sơn Trà Peninsula, Da Nang Ngũ Xã Peninsula, Hanoi Bình Quới Peninsula, Ho Chi Minh City

Cam Ranh Peninsula, Khanh Hoa Province Đầm Môn Peninsula Trà Cổ Peninsula, Quang Ninh Phương Mai Peninsula, Qui Nhơn

Malaysia

• NorthWestern Peninsula, Kudat
• semenanjung Malaysia, West Malaysia
• semporna peninsula, Semporna & Tawau
• Sandakan Peninsula, sandakan
• Pitas peninsula, Pitas

North America

Canada

Acadian Peninsula, New Brunswick Adelaide Peninsula, Nunavut Aspotogan Peninsula, Nova Scotia Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador Banks Peninsula, Nunavut Barrow Peninsula, Baffin Island, Nunavut Becher Peninsula, Baffin Island, Nunavut Beekman Peninsula, Baffin Island, Nunavut Bell Peninsula, Baffin Island, Nunavut Bell Peninsula, Southampton Island, Nunavut Blunt Peninsula, Baffin Island, Nunavut Bonavista Peninsula, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador Boothia Peninsula, Nunavut Borden Peninsula, Baffin Island, Nunavut Brodeur Peninsula, Baffin Island, Nunavut Bruce Peninsula, Ontario, extending into Lake Huron Burin Peninsula, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador Burrard Peninsula, British Columbia Chebucto Peninsula, Nova Scotia Colin Archer Peninsula, Devon Island, Queen Elizabeth Islands, Nunavut Collinson Peninsula, Victoria Island, Nunavut Cumberland Peninsula, Baffin Island, Nunavut Diamond Jennes Peninsula, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories Cynthia Peninsula, Ontario (in Lake Temagami) Douglas Peninsula, Northwest Territories Dunlas Peninsula, Melville Island, Northwest Territories/Nunavut Foxe Peninsula, Baffin Island, Nunavut Gaspé Peninsula, Quebec Great Northern Peninsula, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador Hall Peninsula, Baffin Island, Nunavut

Henry Kater Peninsula, Baffin Island, Nunavut Joan Peninsula, Ontario (in Lake Temagami) Kent Peninsula, Nunavut Kingston Peninsula, New Brunswick Labrador Peninsula, encompassing all of Labrador and most of Quebec Leith Peninsula, Northwest Territories (in Great Bear Lake) Long Point, Ontario (in Lake Erie) McLean Peninsula, Ontario (in Lake Temagami) Melville Peninsula, Nunavut Meta Incognita Peninsula, Baffin Island, Nunavut Natkusiak Peninsula, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories/Nunavut Niagara Peninsula, Ontario North Peninsula, Ontario (in Lake Nipigon) Nova Scotia peninsula, Nova Scotia Pangertot Peninsula, Nunavut Parry Peninsula, Northwest Territories Pethel Peninsula, Northwest Territories Penisalota Peninsula, Saskatchewan Point Pelee, Ontario (in Lake Erie) Port au Port Peninsula, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador Prince Albert Peninsula, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories Prince Edward Peninsula, Ontario (in Lake Ontario) Sibley Peninsula, Ontario (in Lake Superior) Simpson Peninsula, Nunavut Siorarsuk Peninsula, Baffin Island, Nunavut Steensby Peninsula, Baffin Island, Nunavut Storkerson Peninsula, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories/Nunavut Saanich Peninsula, Vancouver Island, British Columbia Sunshine Coast Peninsula, Sea-to-Sky Corridor, British Columbia Ungava Peninsula, Quebec Wollaston Peninsula, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories/Nunavut

United States

Alaska

Alaska Peninsula Cleveland Peninsula

Kenai Peninsula Seward Peninsula

California

Bay Farm Island, Alameda and Oakland International Airport Marin County, California, is a southwards-pointing peninsula surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, the northern part of San Francisco Bay, and San Pablo Bay Monterey Peninsula Palos Verdes Peninsula, South Bay, Los Angeles

Point Loma, San Diego San Francisco Peninsula Samoa Peninsula, the larger, northern arm of land separating Humboldt Bay from the Pacific Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach

Florida

Florida is a well-known example of a large peninsula, with its land area divided between the larger Florida peninsula and the smaller Florida panhandle on the north and west. It has several smaller peninsulas within it:

• Fairpoint Peninsula
• Pinellas peninsula including St. Petersburg and Clearwater
• Much of Tampa lies on a peninsula called Interbay Peninsula jutting out into Tampa Bay
• Cape Sable

Michigan

Michigan is very distinguishable for its mitten-shaped Lower Peninsula of Michigan which includes:

Dyke Peninsula Fountain Point Leelanau Peninsula

Old Mission Peninsula The Thumb Woodtick Peninsula

The northern third of Michigan is called the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and contains:

Abbaye Peninsula Garden Peninsula

Keweenaw Peninsula Stonington Peninsula

New Jersey

Barnegat Peninsula Cape May Peninsula Sandy Hook New Barbadoes Neck lies between the Hackensack River and Passaic River Caven Point in Jersey City is a part of Liberty State Park and Port Liberte.

Bergen Point and Constable Hook are two peninsulas in Bayonne, which itself lies on peninsula surrounded by Upper New York Bay, Newark Bay, and the Kill van Kull, formerly known as Bergen Neck Droyer's Point and Kearny Point mark the mouth of the Hackensack River MOTBY and Port Jersey are man-made peninisulas extending in Upper New York Bay

New York

The Bronx, New York, and Yonkers, New York Long Island was once a peninsula connected to North America during the great Ice Ages

Cumberland Head Coney Island was once an actual island until the island was expanded through land reclamation into the Coney Island Creek, thus becoming a peninsula. Rockaway Peninsula in southeastern Queens

Utah

Antelope Island, Utah, becomes a peninsula when waters are low, on the south shore of the Great Salt Lake Promentory Peninsula, on the north eastern shore of the Great Salt Lake

Stansbury Peninsula, becomes an island when waters are high, on the south shore of the Great Salt Lake

Virginia

Delmarva Peninsula, encompassing parts of Maryland and Virginia, and all of Delaware Middle Peninsula, on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay

Northern Neck, on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay Virginia Peninsula, on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay

Other states

Cape Cod, Massachusetts, a cape that can be viewed as a peninsula Delmarva Peninsula, encompassing parts of Maryland and Virginia, and all of Delaware Door Peninsula, Wisconsin, in Lake Michigan Key Peninsula, Washington, in Puget Sound Kitsap Peninsula, Washington, in Puget Sound

Mokapu, Hawaii Nahant, Massachusetts Olympic Peninsula, Washington Presque Isle, Erie, Pennsylvania Port Bolivar, Texas, On the Texas Coast.

Encinal Peninsula, Flour Bluff, Corpus Christi, Texas.

Greenland

Alfred Wegeners Halvo Hayes Halvo Ingnerit

Nuussuaq Peninsula Sigguup Nunaa (Svartenhuk Halvø)

Mexico

Baja California Peninsula, Mexico, containing the state of Baja California and state of Baja California Sur

Yucatán Peninsula, partly separating the Gulf of Mexico from the Caribbean

South America

• Tierra del Fuego of Chile/Argentina was once a peninsula extending south from South America during the great Ice Ages

Other countries in South America

Península de Azuero, Panama Placencia Peninsula, Belize Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica Araya Peninsula, Venezuela Paraguana, Venezuela

Paria Peninsula, Venezuela Guajira Peninsula, Venezuela/Colombia Paracas Peninsula, Peru Verde Peninsula, Argentina Valdes Peninsula, Argentina Punta del Este, Uruguay

Caribbean

Peninsula de Samaná, Dominican Republic Barrio Obrero, Puerto Rico Zapata Peninsula, Cuba

Guanahacabibes Peninsula, Cuba Hicacos Peninsula, Cuba

Africa

Bakassi, Cameroon but disputed with Nigeria Buri Peninsula, Eritrea Cabo Blanco, Mauritania/Morocco Cape Peninsula, South Africa Cap Bon, Tunisia Cap-Vert, Senegal Ceuta, Spain

Punta Durnford, Morocco Horn of Africa or Somali peninsula, Somalia Raas Xaafuun peninsula/Ras Hafun, Somalia Ponta de São Lourenço, Madeira Islands (Portuguese Territory)

Antarctica

Antarctic Peninsula Edward VII Peninsula Fletcher Peninsula

Fowler Peninsula Martin Peninsula

References

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