peninsula
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The Evans clan has been running cattle on the peninsula for 150 years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
His organization is already restoring native plants and rebuilding natural waterways in parts of the peninsula.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
The conflict between the two occupants of the Korean peninsula has been effectively frozen since an armistice was signed in 1953.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
The contested isles are part of the volcanic Kuril archipelago, which runs in a broad arc from Russia's Kamchatka peninsula down to Japan's main northern island Hokkaido.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
Not surprisingly, the peninsula embraced the competition with zeal.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
"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
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
The decline in sea levels let the two peninsulas join up.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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Physical Geography - Introductory
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