Talk:List of peninsulas

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Cornwall/England

Steinsky, I think you have missed the point about the Cornwall/England debate. The list of peninsulars gives a geographical location and is not a legal definition (as the Cornwall page states). As the majority of people in Cornwall beleive that Cornwall is a seperate entity to England I think Penwith and The Lizard should be described as Cornwall, United Kingdom rather than England, United Kingdom. Any comments? --Cyr 10:12, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

I suggest changing the whole lot to counties, that will do the job of giving increased geographical information and will avoid POV. Joe D (t) 12:13, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

I think thats a fair compromise. Good Idea Joe D --Cyr 16:27, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

Thoughts on subcontinents and isthmuses

Hellöüw. These are my thoughts: It is often stated that a narrowing of land is the distinguishing feature that sets apart a peninsula (such as, say the Alaskan Peninsula or all of mainland Alaska) from a subcontinent or similarly shaped protrusion (such as, say, the Balkan "Peninsula" or the Southern Cone). Like this:

• ISLAND = Δ
• PENINSULA = Ω
• SUBCONTINENT/PROTRUSION = Λ

If this standard is worth adhering to, then it should make it easier to delimit, rank and enumerate the peninsulas along the lines of the List of islands by area and by population, eh? Or is not that straight-forward? //Big Adamsky 21:15, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

It's all relative of course. I mean following the logic of "flanked by water on three sides", one could call South America a peninsula. So appearantly there are subconscious limits as to what we call a peninsula. I'm not sure it's necessary to delimit all of that stuff explicitly in the article, but well, why not? I mean isn't it an encyclopedia's ultimate task to delimit concepts clearly? That is: if clear limitations exist at all, I mean, the limits as to what land mass is too big to call a peninsula are quite subjective, aren't they, and they will vary from person to person. I sympathize with your above attempt to clearly classify types of land masses according to what shape they have. But I'm sure numerous exceptions exits, I mean I'm pretty sure that plenty of Λ-shaped land masses exist that are still called a peninsula, for instance. And as I said, some land masses may have a Ω-shape, but yet be so big that nobody calls them a peninsula. So I think it will become quite hard to come up with a classification system that is clear, objective and still meaningful. (RagingR2 20:05, 3 April 2006 (UTC))

photo India

the photograph of India is a bit misleading - the Indian SUBCONTINENT is not described as a peninsula in the text - so it shouldn't be stated as one in the picture...

I think India is a peninsula

Gibraltar

Shouldn't Gibraltar be added? As that's often referred to as a peninsular..