Peninsula

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The Baja California Peninsula, Mexico

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.[1] The surrounding water is usually understood to belong to a single, contiguous body,[2][3] but is not always explicitly defined as such.[4] A peninsula can also be a headland (head), cape, island promontory, bill, point, or spit.[5] 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.[6] In English, the plural of peninsula is peninsulas or, less commonly, peninsulae.

Africa

The Horn of Africa also known as the Somali peninsula.

Horn of Africa

Main article: Horn of Africa

The Horn of Africa is a peninsula compassing of the countries of Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and Ethiopia.

Other regions/states

Oceania

Australia

A beach on the Mornington Peninsula
Looking north over the Kurnell Peninsula.

Papua New Guinea

New Zealand

In the North Island:

21 North and 20 South Island locations have the name 'peninsula' on 1:50,000 maps. There are many more peninsulas not named as such on 1:50,000 maps, including Bluff.[7]

In the South Island:

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 Turkey.

Denmark

Iberian Peninsula

Satellite view of the Iberian Peninsula
Main article: Iberian Peninsula

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

Ireland

Italy

Satellite view of the famous Italian Peninsula

Russia

Curonian Spit, a large peninsula in the Baltic Sea

Scandinavian Peninsula

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

Turkey

Main article: Peninsulas of Turkey

United Kingdom

England

Scotland

Wales

Northern Ireland

Other countries in Europe

A small peninsula in Croatia
Au peninsula, Lake Zürich, Switzerland

Asia

China

Turkey

Map of Anatolian Peninsula at the Asian part of Turkey.

Eastern Mediterranean

Indian subcontinent and South Asia

South India (Peninsular India).

Japan

See also: List of peninsulas of Japan

Kyūshū

Honshū

  • Oshika-hanto
  • Noto-hanto
  • Oga-hanto
  • Miura-hanto
  • Boso-hanto

Hokkaido

Kazakhstan

Korea

Main article: Korean Peninsula
Korean Peninsula.

The whole land mass encompassing North and South Korea is a peninsula, surrounded by the 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.

Persian Gulf

South East Asia

Indonesia

Malaysia

Philippines

Vietnam

North America

Canada

Greenland

  • Alfred Wegeners Halvo
  • Hayes Halvo
  • Ingnerit
  • Nuussuaq Peninsula
  • Sigguup Nunaa (Svartenhuk Halvø)

Mexico

The Yucatán Peninsula

United States

Alaska

California

Florida

The Floridian Peninsula, shown by a NASA satellite image.

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:

Maryland

Mid-Atlantic shoreline showing, from the upper right, the Cape May Peninsula of New Jersey, Delaware Bay, the Delmarva Peninsula, and Chesapeake Bay. Also visible are the peninsulas of Maryland and Virginia along the Chesapeake's shores.


Massachusetts

Cape Cod, a peninsula of Massachusetts
  • Cape Cod, Massachusetts, a cape that can be viewed as a peninsula
  • Nahant, a town in Essex County, is on a small peninsula.
  • Nantasket Peninsula, Hull

Michigan

Main articles: Upper Peninsula of Michigan and Lower Peninsula of Michigan
The large Michigan Peninsulas from space, showing both the Upper Peninsula and Lower Peninsula.

Michigan - the only bi-peninsular state - is very distinguishable for its mitten-shaped Lower Peninsula of Michigan which includes:

The rifle-shaped Upper Peninsula of Michigan contains:

New Jersey

New York

Long Island, New York, with its North and South Forks.
  • Irondequoit, NY (Geographical headland)

Utah

  • Antelope Island, Utah, becomes a peninsula when waters are low, on the south shore of the Great Salt Lake
  • Promontory 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

Washington

Other states

South America

Other countries in South America

Caribbean

Antarctica

References

  1. ↑ Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries, ed. (2004). Word Histories and Mysteries: From Abracadabra to Zeus. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 216. ISBN 978-0547350271. OCLC 55746553. 
  2. ↑ "Definition of peninsula". American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. Houghton Mifflin. Retrieved 2013-03-30. 
  3. ↑ "Definition of peninsula". Cambridge Dictionaries Online. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 2013-03-30. 
  4. ↑ "Definition of peninsula". Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 2013-03-30. 
  5. ↑ Peninsula. – Britannica Student Encyclopedia. 2007. Encyclopædia Britannica, Retrieved 2007-07-19.
  6. ↑ http://travelingluck.com/Africa/Sierra%20Leone/Northern/_2409328_Fourah+Point.html#local_map
  7. ↑ http://www.nztopomaps.com/

External links

The dictionary definition of peninsula at Wiktionary
Media related to Peninsulas at Wikimedia Commons

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