List of peninsulas

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For other uses, see Peninsula (disambiguation).
"Peninsular" redirects here. For the Spanish caste, see Peninsulars.
The Arabian Peninsula
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. In many Germanic and Celtic languages and also in Baltic, Slavic, Hungarian, Chinese and Korean, peninsulas are called "half-islands". [citation needed] 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] In English, the plural of peninsula is peninsulas or, less commonly, peninsulae.

Oceania

Australia

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

Papua New Guinea

New Zealand

On North Island:

On 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 the European part of 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 boot shaped 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

  • 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

Scotland

Wales

Northern Ireland

Other countries in Europe

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

Asia

China

Eastern Mediterranean

Indian subcontinent and South Asia

South India (Peninsular India).

Indonesia

Iraq

Japan

See also: List of peninsulas of Japan

Kyūshū

Honshū

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.

Malaysia

Persian Gulf

South East Asia

Philippines

Vietnam

North America

Canada

Greenland

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

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.

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

Other states

South America

Other countries in South America

Caribbean

Africa

The Somali peninsula.

Somalia

Ras Hafun.

Antarctica

References

  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

External links

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

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