Peninsula

From Wikinfo

A peninsula is a geographical formation consisting of an extension of land from a larger body that is surrounded by water on three sides.

A peninsula could be a headland.

Peninsulas include:

Continental Europe:

• Balkan peninsula
• Brittany
• Gallipoli of Turkey
• Iberian Peninsula (with Spain and Portugal)
• Istria
• Italy
• Jutland Peninsula in Northern Germany and southern Denmark
• Mount Athos, Greece
• Scandinavian Peninsula (with Sweden and Norway)
• Walcheren and Zuid-Beveland in the Netherlands

Great Britain

• Cornwall
• Gower peninsula
• Spurn
• The Lizard

Asia:

• Bataan Peninsula of the Philippines
• Crimea
• Korea
• Malay Peninsula
• Qatar
• Sinai Peninsula of Egypt
• Kamchatka

Africa:

• Bakassi

Americas:

• Cape Cod
• Delmarva Peninsula
• Florida
• San Francisco Peninsula separating the San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean.
• Upper Peninsula of Michigan and the Lower Peninsula of Michigan
• Yucatan

Australia:

• Mornington Peninsula

New Zealand

• Banks Peninsula
• Coromandel Peninsula
• Karikari Peninsula

References

• Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Peninsula" http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peninsula August 6, 2003