List of peninsulas

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A peninsula is a piece of land that is nearly surrounded by water but connected to mainland via an isthmus.

A peninsula can also be a headland, cape, island promontory, bill, point, or spit.[1]

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[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 composed of many peninsulas, such as the Iberian Peninsula, Scandinavian, etc.

[edit] Balkan "Peninsula"

The Balkans is a peninsula including the Republic of Macedonia, Greece ,Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia, Albania, and Montenegro.

[edit] Denmark

[edit] Italy

[edit] Iberian Peninsula

Main article: Iberian Peninsula

Encompassing continental Spain and Portugal, Andorra and the British overseas territory of Gibraltar.

[edit] Scandinavian Peninsula

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

[edit] Great Britain

  • During the great Ice Ages, all of Great Britain was a peninsula, extending west from the mainland of Europe/France. The English Channel did not exist then, and there was dry land there.

[edit] England

[edit] Scotland

[edit] Wales

[edit] Ireland

[edit] Northern Ireland

[edit] Republic of Ireland

[edit] Russia

[edit] Other countries

[edit] Asia

[edit] Kazakhstan

[edit] Middle East

[edit] Indian subcontinent and South Asia

South India (Peninsular India).

[edit] China

[edit] Korean Peninsula

Main article: 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] North America

[edit] Canada

[edit] United States

[edit] Florida

Florida is a well-known example of a peninsula and has some peninsulas on it.

[edit] Michigan

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 Thumb, Fountain Point, the Leelanau Peninsula, and Old Mission Peninsula. The northern half of Michigan is called the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and contains the Keweenaw Peninsula, the Garden Peninsula and the Stonington Peninsula.

[edit] Other states

[edit] Greenland

[edit] Mexico

[edit] South America

[edit] Chile

[edit] Other countries

[edit] Caribbean

[edit] Africa

[edit] Antarctica

[edit] References

  1. ^ Peninsula. – Britannica Student Encyclopedia. 2007. Encyclopædia Britannica, Retrieved 2007-07-19.
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