peninsula
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Mary, from Wexford, said she and her children found the turtle while walking on a beach near Castlegregory on the Dingle peninsula in County Kerry after an Atlantic storm.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
During past El Niño seasons, residents have been known to swap their cars for canoes and paddleboards to get around the peninsula after storms and high tides.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
Beneath rotating wind turbines on Sri Lanka's Mannar peninsula, a fishing net is hauled up the beach by tractor winches and 20 men, but once again the catch is meagre.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 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
The archaeological record shows that southern Yucatan was abandoned, while Maya cities in the northern part of the peninsula soldiered on or even grew.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
"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
It is a natural fjord separating the Olympic and Kitsap peninsulas.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 12, 2024
“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
It said clean-up work was continuing "non-stop" in Ower Bay and also along the Goathorn and Arne peninsulas.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2023
Europe has a highly indented coastline, with five large peninsulas that approach islands in their isolation, and all of which evolved independent languages, ethnic groups, and governments: Greece, Italy, Iberia, Denmark, and Norway/Sweden.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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