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Peninsula
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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(Lat. paeninsula, from paene, almost, and insula, an island), in physical geography, a piece of land nearly surrounded by water. In its original sense it connotes attachment to a larger land-mass by a neck of land (isthmus) narrower than the peninsula itself, but it is often extended to apply to any long promontory, the coast-line of which is markedly longer than the landward boundary.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Peninsula'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/p/peninsula.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Peninsula'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/p/peninsula.html. 1910.
