peninsula
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The reserve supports a wide variety of coastal wildflowers, including plenty of sea aster, which is thought to have finally attracted the bees to the Steart peninsula.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
Crews worked to pump out the knee-high water and reinforce sandbags along the harbor side of the peninsula.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
Dramatic photos and video footage showed homes along the city's peninsula teetering precariously, while its historic boardwalk was partially swept away.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
On the opposite side of the peninsula, the dark waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea surround Sardinia and Sicily.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
Dr. Trefusis accompanied them ashore, and ’twas my pleasure to escort him through the rough terrain of flat stump and loam we have made of the forest, down to the peninsula and to our tent.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
"In all these periods, the present-day islands and peninsulas of Ayvalık would have formed interior zones within an expansive terrestrial environment," explains co-author Professor Kadriye Özçelik, from Ankara University.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2025
“There’s a sequence of island peninsulas that surround the harbor with forts on all of them, and we thought that made for rich pickings as far as the nautical side of the movie.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2024
Racers run across islands and peninsulas, on singletrack trails, roads and rocks, with swimming sections breaking up the running portions.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2023
Our shoreline is vast, over 3,000 miles of it, with hundreds of peninsulas and more than 4,000 islands.
From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2023
The decline in sea levels let the two peninsulas join up.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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