Peninsula

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
Look up peninsula, byland, or biland in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
A small peninsula in Croatia
Curonian Spit, a large peninsula in the Baltic Sea
Cape Cod, a peninsula of Massachusetts

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, Hungarian and Chinese, 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

[edit] Oceania

[edit] Australia

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

[edit] New Zealand

[edit] Papua New Guinea

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Denmark

[edit] Italy

Satellite view of the famous boot shaped Italian Peninsula

[edit] 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.

[edit] Scandinavian Peninsula

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

[edit] Turkey

Main article: Peninsulas of Turkey

[edit] 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.

[edit] England

[edit] Scotland

[edit] Wales

[edit] Northern Ireland

[edit] Republic of Ireland

[edit] Russia

[edit] Other countries in Europe

Au peninsula, Lake Zürich, Switzerland


[edit] Asia

[edit] Kazakhstan

[edit] Eastern Mediterranean

Panoramic view of Beirut.
View of Haifa from the west, the center of Israel's Second Largest Metropolitan Area

[edit] Persian Gulf

[edit] Indian subcontinent and South Asia

South India (Peninsular India).

[edit] China

[edit] 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.

[edit] Japan

See also: List of peninsulas of Japan

[edit] Kyūshū

[edit] Honshū

[edit] Hokkaido

[edit] South East Asia

[edit] Philippines

[edit] Indonesia

[edit] Vietnam

Malaysia

[edit] North America

[edit] Canada

[edit] United States

[edit] Alaska

[edit] California

[edit] 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:

[edit] Michigan

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

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

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

[edit] New Jersey

[edit] New York

[edit] 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

[edit] Virginia

[edit] Other states

[edit] Greenland

[edit] Mexico

The Baja California peninsula
The Yucatán peninsula

[edit] South America

[edit] Other countries in South America

[edit] Caribbean

[edit] Africa

[edit] Antarctica

[edit] References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Peninsulas
  1. ^ Peninsula. – Britannica Student Encyclopedia. 2007. Encyclopædia Britannica, Retrieved 2007-07-19.
  2. ^ http://travelingluck.com/Africa/Sierra%20Leone/Northern/_2409328_Fourah+Point.html#local_map


Earth's landforms
Mountainous landforms
Continental plain
River landform
Fluvial landforms
Glacial landforms
Oceanic and coastal landforms
Volcanic landforms
Aeolian landforms
Artificial landforms
Landforms
Accreting coast Image6.svg

Fernando noronha.jpg
Beaches
Processes
Management
Related
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peninsula&oldid=473920815"
Personal tools
Namespaces
Variants
Actions
Navigation
Interaction
Toolbox
Print/export
Languages