Look up peninsula, byland, or biland in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A small peninsula in Croatia Curonian Spit, a large peninsula in the Baltic Sea Cape Cod, a peninsula of Massachusetts A peninsula (Latin: paenīnsula, "paene-": almost + "īnsula": island; also called a byland or biland) is a piece of land that is surrounded by water but connected to mainland via an isthmus.citation needed In many Germanic and Celtic languages and also in Hungarian, peninsulas are called "half-islands". 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 Contents 1 Oceania 1.1 Australia 2 New Zealand 2.1 Papua New Guinea 3 Europe 3.1 Balkan Peninsula 3.2 Denmark 3.3 Italy 3.4 Iberian Peninsula 3.5 Scandinavian Peninsula 3.6 Turkey 3.7 United Kingdom 3.7.1 England 3.7.2 Scotland 3.7.3 Wales 3.7.4 Northern Ireland 3.8 Republic of Ireland 3.9 Russia 3.10 Other countries 4 Asia 4.1 Kazakhstan 4.2 Eastern Mediterranean 4.3 Persian Gulf 4.4 Indian subcontinent and South Asia 4.5 China 4.6 Korea 4.7 Japan 4.7.1 Kyūshū 4.7.2 Honshū 4.7.3 Hokkaido 5 South East Asia 5.1 Philippines 5.2 Indonesia 5.3 Vietnam 6 North America 6.1 Canada 6.2 United States 6.2.1 Alaska 6.2.2 California 6.2.3 Florida 6.2.4 Michigan 6.2.5 New Jersey 6.2.6 New York 6.2.7 Utah 6.2.8 Virginia 6.2.9 Other states 6.3 Greenland 6.4 Mexico 7 South America 7.1 Other countries 8 Caribbean 9 Africa 10 Antarctica 11 References // Oceania Australia Beecroft Peninsula, New South Wales Bellarine Peninsula, Victoria Cape York Peninsula, Queensland Cobourg Peninsula, Northern Territory Cronulla sand dunes, Kurnell Peninsula Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia Eyre Peninsula, South Australia Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia Freycinet Peninsula, Tasmania Inskip Peninsula, Queensland Jervis Bay Territory Mornington Peninsula, Victoria Redcliffe, Queensland Stockton, New South Wales Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania Tasmania itself was once a peninsula connected to Australia during the great Ice Ages Wilsons Promontory, Victoria Woy Woy, New South Wales Yorke Peninsula, South Australia Younghusband Peninsula, South Australia A beach on the Mornington Peninsula Looking north over the Kurnell Peninsula. New Zealand Aupouri Peninsula, North Island Banks Peninsula, South Island Bluff Peninsula, South Island Bream Head, North Island Cape of Brandon Conde, South Island Cape Brett, North Island Cape Campbell, South Island Cape Foulwind, South Island Cape Kidnappers, North Island Cape Turnagain, North Island Coromandel Peninsula, North Island Farewell Spit, South Island Kaikoura Peninsula, South Island Karikari Peninsula, North Island Mahia Peninsula, North Island Miramar Peninsula, North Island Mount Maunganui, North Island North Auckland Peninsula, North Island Otago Peninsula, South Island Tiwai Point, South Island

Papua New Guinea Gazelle Peninsula, New Britain Huon Peninsula 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. Chalkidiki, Greece Kassandra, Greece Mani Peninsula, Greece Mount Athos, Greece Peloponnese, Greece Sithonia, Greece Pilio, Greece Istria, Croatia/Slovenia Piran Peninsula, Slovenia Pelješac, Croatia Prevlaka, Croatia Split, Croatia Zadar, Croatia Karaburun Peninsula, Albania Luštica, Montenegro Gallipoli, Turkey Denmark Jutland Peninsula, which forms the western half of the country. Djursland Grenen Helgenæs Horne Land Hornsherred Hindsholm Kegnæs Mols Odsherred Salling Stevns Peninsula Italy Satellite view of the famous boot shaped Italian Peninsula Italian Peninsula Calabria Penisola Salentina Promontorio del Gargano Sorrentine Peninsula Promontorio di Orbetello Iberian Peninsula Main article: Iberian Peninsula Encompassing continental Spain and Portugal, Andorra, British overseas territory of Gibraltar and a small amount of southern France. Cabo Espichel, Portugal Cabo Carvoeiro, Portugal Cabo de São Vicente, Portugal Tróia Peninsula, Portugal Cádiz, Spain Gibraltar Scandinavian Peninsula Encompassing present-day Sweden, Norway, and part of Finland Bygdøy, Norway Fornebulandet, Norway Fosen, Norway Hamarøyhalvøya, Norway Hurumlandet, Norway Lista, Norway Lyngenhalvøya, Norway Nordkinn Peninsula, Norway Nesodden, Norway Ofothalvøya, Norway Porsangerhalvøya, Norway Scania, Sweden Snarøya, Norway Stad, Norway Sværholthalvøya, Norway Södertörn, Sweden Varangerhalvøya, Norway Turkey Main article: Peninsulas of Turkey Anatolian Peninsula Thracian Peninsula Gelibolu Peninsula Karaburun Peninsula Dilek Peninsula Datça Peninsula 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 Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, and Dorset - the South West Peninsula, or the West Country, or Wessex Dengie peninsula, Essex The centre of the city of Durham, County Durham The Fylde, Lancashire Hoo, Kent Isle of Dogs, London Greenwich Peninsula, London Gosport, Hampshire The Lizard, Cornwall Manhood Peninsula, West Sussex Morte Point, North Devon Orchard Place, London Penwith, Cornwall Isle of Purbeck, Dorset Isle of Portland, Dorset Rotherhithe, London Spurn, Yorkshire Tendring, Essex Wirral, Cheshire and Merseyside Scotland Scotland itself Ardnamurchan, Lochaber Black Isle, Ross and Cromarty Cowal, Argyll and Bute Doonie Point, Aberdeenshire Dunnet Head, Caithness Faraid Head, Sutherland Fife Kintyre, Argyll and Bute Knoydart, Lochaber Morvern, Lochaber Strathy Point, Sutherland Point of Hellia, Orkney Point, Outer Hebrides Wales Wales itself Creuddyn Peninsula juts out of the North Wales coast and includes the towns of Llandudno, Rhos-on-Sea and Deganwy. Plus the headlands of Great Orme and Little Orme Gower Peninsula, Swansea Llŷn Peninsula Marloes Peninsula, Pembrokeshire Pembrokeshire peninsula, West Wales South Pembrokeshire Peninsula. St Davids Head, Pembrokeshire Vale of Glamorgan - technically a peninsula, as it surrounded on three sides by water - two rivers boundaries and the Bristol Channel South West Wales - Swansea to New Quay - surrounded by the Bristol Channel, St George's Channel and Cardigan Bay Northern Ireland Ards Peninsula, County Down Island Magee Lecale Peninsula Ramore Head, Portrush Republic of Ireland Donegal Munster - like Ulster, Munster is surrounded on three sides by the sea Beara Peninsula Cooley Peninsula Dingle Peninsula Fanad Peninsula Hook Peninsula Horn Head Inishowen Iveragh Peninsula Mizen Head Peninsula Mullet Peninsula Rosguill Sheep's Head Peninsula Russia Chukotka Peninsula Curonian Spit, Kaliningrad Oblast (shared with Lithuania) Kamchatka Peninsula Kola Peninsula Rybachy Peninsula Samland peninsula, Kaliningrad Oblast Taymyr Peninsula Vistula Spit, Kaliningrad Oblast (shared with Poland) Yamal Peninsula Other countries Apsheron, Azerbaijan Au peninsula, Au, Zurich, Switzerland Brittany, France Butjadingen, Germany Cotentin Peninsula, France Crimea, Ukraine Fischland-Darß-Zingst, Germany Hel Peninsula, Poland Karpass Peninsula, Cyprus North Holland, Netherlands Kakumäe Peninsula, Estonia Sõrve Säär, Estonia Walcheren, Netherlands Zuid-Beveland, Netherlands Tihany, Hungary Au peninsula, Lake Zürich, Switzerland

Asia Kazakhstan Mangyshlak Peninsula Eastern Mediterranean Panoramic view of Beirut. View of Haifa from the west, the center of Israel's Second Largest Metropolitan Area Asia Minor Beirut, Lebanon El Mina, Lebanon Haifa, Israel Acre, Israel, Israel Sinai Peninsula, Egypt Kapidagi Yarimadasi, Turkey Datça Peninsula, Turkey Side Peninsula, Turkey Persian Gulf Arabian Peninsula; Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Oman Qatar Al-Faw peninsula, Iraq Musandam peninsula; Oman, United Arab Emirates Indian subcontinent and South Asia South India (Peninsular India). Indostanic Peninsula: The Indian subcontinent is itself a peninsula. Colaba peninsula, Mumbai Deccan peninsula Worli peninsula, Mumbai Kathiawar Peninsula, Gujarat Gwadar peninsula, Pakistan Jaffna Peninsula, Northern Sri Lanka China Kowloon Peninsula, (Hong Kong) Leizhou Peninsula Liaodong Peninsula Shandong Peninsula Fan Lau, (Hong Kong) Sai Kung Peninsula, (Hong Kong) Stanley Peninsula, (Hong Kong) Chi Ma Wan Peninsula, (Hong Kong) Chung Hom Kok Peninsula, (Hong Kong) Wan Tsai Peninsula, Korea Main article: Korean Peninsula The whole land mass encompassing North and South Korea is a peninsula, surrounded by the Sea of Japan (also known as the East Sea) 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. Japan See also: List of peninsulas of Japan Kyūshū Nishi-sonogi-hanto Kunisaki-hanto Satsuma-hanto Osumi-hanto Honshū Oshika-hanto Noto-hanto Oga-hanto Miura-hato Boso-hanto Hokkaido Shiretoko Peninsula Shakotan Peninsula South East Asia Malay Peninsula Indochina peninsula Philippines Bataan Peninsula, Luzon Bicol Peninsula, Luzon Caramoan Peninsula, Bicol Bondoc Peninsula, Luzon Cavite, Luzon San Ildefonso Peninsula, Luzon Zamboanga Peninsula, Mindanao Tinaca Point, Davao del Sur Pujada Peninsula, Mindanao Indonesia Poluostrov Yamau Samostanjung Matthew Semenanjung Blambangan, Java, Semenanjung Minahassa, Sulawesi East Peninsula, Sulawesi South-east Peninsula, Sulawesi South Peninsula, Sulawesi Vietnam Cà Mau Peninsula, Cà Mau Province Hòn Gốm Peninsula, Da Lat City Sơn Trà Peninsula, Danang Ngũ Xã Peninsula, Hanoi Bình Quới Peninsula, Ho Chi Minh City Cam Ranh Peninsula, Khanh Hoa Province Đầm Môn Peninsula Trà Cổ Peninsula, Quang Ninh Phương Mai Peninsula, Qui Nhơn North America Canada Acadian Peninsula, New Brunswick Adelaide Peninsula, Nunavut Aspotogan Peninsula, Nova Scotia Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador Banks Peninsula, Nunavut Barrow Peninsula, Baffin Island, Nunavut Becher Peninsula, Baffin Island, Nunavut Beekman Peninsula, Baffin Island, Nunavut Bell Peninsula, Baffin Island, Nunavut Bell Peninsula, Southampton Island, Nunavut Blunt Peninsula, Baffin Island, Nunavut Bonavista Peninsula, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador Boothia Peninsula, Nunavut Borden Peninsula, Baffin Island, Nunavut Brodeur Peninsula, Baffin Island, Nunavut Bruce Peninsula, Ontario, extending into Lake Huron Burin Peninsula, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador Burrard Peninsula, British Columbia Chebucto Peninsula, Nova Scotia Colin Archer Peninsula, Devon Island, Queen Elizabeth Islands, Nunavut Collinson Peninsula, Victoria Island, Nunavut Cumberland Peninsula, Baffin Island, Nunavut Diamond Jennes Peninsula, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories Cynthia Peninsula, Ontario (in Lake Temagami) Douglas Peninsula, Northwest Territories Dunlas Peninsula, Melville Island, Northwest Territories/Nunavut Foxe Peninsula, Baffin Island, Nunavut Gaspé Peninsula, Quebec Hall Peninsula, Baffin Island, Nunavut Henry Kater Peninsula, Baffin Island, Nunavut Joan Peninsula, Ontario (in Lake Temagami) Kent Peninsula, Nunavut Kingston Peninsula, New Brunswick Labrador Peninsula, encompassing all of Labrador and most of Quebec Leith Peninsula, Northwest Territories (in Great Bear Lake) Long Point, Ontario (in Lake Erie) McLean Peninsula, Ontario (in Lake Temagami) Melville Peninsula, Nunavut Meta Incognita Peninsula, Baffin Island, Nunavut Natkusiak Peninsula, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories/Nunavut Niagara Peninsula, Ontario North Peninsula, Ontario (in Lake Nipigon) Nova Scotia peninsula, Nova Scotia Pangertot Peninsula, Nunavut Parry Peninsula, Northwest Territories Pethel Peninsula, Northwest Territories Point Pelee, Ontario (in Lake Erie) Port au Port Peninsula, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador Prince Albert Peninsula, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories Prince Edward Peninsula, Ontario (in Lake Ontario) Sibley Peninsula, Ontario (in Lake Superior) Simpson peninsula, Nunavut Siorarsuk Peninsula, Baffin Island, Nunavut Steensby Peninsula, Baffin Island, Nunavut Storkerson Peninsula, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories/Nunavut Saanich Peninsula, Vancouver Island, British Columbia Sunshine Coast Peninsula, Sea-to-Sky Corridor, British Columbia Ungava Peninsula, Quebec Wollaston Peninsula, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories/Nunavut United States Alaska Alaska Peninsula Cleveland Peninsula Kenai Peninsula Seward Peninsula California Bay Farm Island, Alameda and Oakland International Airport Marin County, California, is a southwards-pointing peninsula surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, the northern part of San Francisco Bay, and San Pablo Bay Monterey Peninsula Palos Verdes Peninsula Point Loma, San Diego San Francisco Peninsula Florida

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: Fairpoint Peninsula Pinellas peninsula including St. Petersburg and Clearwater Much of Tampa lies on a peninsula called Interbay Peninsula jutting out into Tampa Bay Cape Sable The Floridian Peninsula, shown by a NASA satellite image. 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: Dyke Peninsula Fountain Point Leelanau Peninsula Old Mission Peninsula The Thumb Woodtick Peninsula The northern half of Michigan is called the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and contains: Abbaye Peninsula Garden Peninsula Keweenaw Peninsula Stonington Peninsula New Jersey Barnegat Peninsula Cape May Peninsula, New Jersey New Jersey Peninsula - This state can be viewed as a peninsula surrounded by the Delaware River, Atlantic Ocean and the Delaware Bay Sandy Hook New York The Bronx, New York, and Yonkers, New York Long Island, was once a peninsula connected to North America during the great Ice Ages Cumberland Head Coney Island, was once an actual island until the island was expanded through land reclamation into the Coney Island Creek, thus becoming a peninsula. 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 Delmarva Peninsula, encompassing parts of Maryland and Virginia, and all of Delaware Middle Peninsula, on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay Northern Neck, on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay Virginia Peninsula, on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay Other states Cape Cod, Massachusetts, a cape that can be viewed as a peninsula Delmarva Peninsula, encompassing parts of Maryland and Virginia, and all of Delaware Door Peninsula, Wisconsin, in Lake Michigan Key Peninsula, Washington, in Puget Sound Kitsap Peninsula, Washington, in Puget Sound Mokapu, Hawaii Nahant, Massachusetts Olympic Peninsula, Washington Presque Isle, Erie, Pennsylvania Port Bolivar, Texas, On the Texas Coast. Encinal Peninsula, Flour Bluff, Corpus Christi, Texas. Greenland Alfred Wegeners Halvo Hayes Halvo Ingnerit Nuussuaq Peninsula Sigguup Nunaa (Svartenhuk Halvø) Mexico Baja California Peninsula, Mexico, containing the state of Baja California and state of Baja California Sur The Baja California peninsula Yucatán Peninsula, partly separating the Gulf of Mexico from the Caribbean Sea The Yucatán peninsula South America Tierra del Fuego of Chile/Argentina was once a peninsula extending south from South America during the great Ice Ages Other countries Península de Azuero, Panama Placencia Peninsula, Belize Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica Araya Peninsula, Venezuela Paraguana, Venezuela Paria Peninsula, Venezuela Guajira Peninsula, Venezuela/Colombia Paracas Peninsula, Peru Verde Peninsula, Argentina Valdes Peninsula, Argentina Punta del Este, Uruguay Caribbean Peninsula de Samaná, Dominican Republic Barrio Obrero, Puerto Rico Zapata Peninsula, Cuba Guanahacabibes Peninsula, Cuba Hicacos Peninsula, Cuba Africa Bakassi, Cameroon but disputed with Nigeria Buri Peninsula, Eritrea Cabo Blanco, Mauritania/Morocco Cape of Good Hope, South Africa Cap Bon, Tunisia Cap-Vert, Senegal Ceuta, Spain Punta Durnford, Morocco Horn of Africa or Somali peninsula, Somalia Raas Xaafuun peninsula/Ras Hafun, Somalia Ponta de São Lourenço, Madeira Islands (Portuguese Territory) Cape Agulhas, South Africa, southern tip of Africa, and the official dividing point between the Atlantic and Indian oceans.3 Antarctica Antarctic Peninsula Edward VII Peninsula Fletcher Peninsula Fowler Peninsula Martin Peninsula References Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Peninsulas ^ Peninsula. – Britannica Student Encyclopedia. 2007. Encyclopædia Britannica, Retrieved 2007-07-19. ^ http://travelingluck.com/Africa/Sierra%20Leone/Northern/_2409328_Fourah+Point.html#local_map ^ "Limits of Oceans and Seas, 3rd edition". International Hydrographic Organization. 1953. http://www.iho-ohi.net/iho_pubs/standard/S-23/S23_1953.pdf. Retrieved 7 February 2010. 

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