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  • noun Plural form of peninsula.

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Examples

  • This again was due to many physical causes such as peninsulas parting from continents as islands, islands joining and making new continents, continents breaking up or effecting junction with or being isolated from one another.

    Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Marchant, James 1916

  • This historical contrast between center and periphery of continents reappears in smaller land masses, such as peninsulas and islands.

    Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897

  • It has happened in spades on the Baja and Yucatan peninsulas where foreigners, mostly Americans, have bragged publicly about acquiring beach front properties in places like Tulum and Ensenada for what they considered chump change forcing the locals into federal housing or dismal swamps or the barest of hillside ghettos while inducing a backbreaking increase in their cost of living.

    Safety in lakeside 2009

  • It has happened in spades on the Baja and Yucatan peninsulas where foreigners, mostly Americans, have bragged publicly about acquiring beach front properties in places like Tulum and Ensenada for what they considered chump change forcing the locals into federal housing or dismal swamps or the barest of hillside ghettos while inducing a backbreaking increase in their cost of living.

    Safety in lakeside 2009

  • It has happened in spades on the Baja and Yucatan peninsulas where foreigners, mostly Americans, have bragged publicly about acquiring beach front properties in places like Tulum and Ensenada for what they considered chump change forcing the locals into federal housing or dismal swamps or the barest of hillside ghettos while inducing a backbreaking increase in their cost of living.

    Safety in lakeside 2009

  • If you want to get away from it all in one of the most beautiful places you'll ever see, head out into the Sounds, the waterways, islands and peninsulas that create the northern boundary of Marlborough.

    Meg Hemphill: A Tour of New Zealand Wine Country Meg Hemphill 2011

  • It has happened in spades on the Baja and Yucatan peninsulas where foreigners, mostly Americans, have bragged publicly about acquiring beach front properties in places like Tulum and Ensenada for what they considered chump change forcing the locals into federal housing or dismal swamps or the barest of hillside ghettos while inducing a backbreaking increase in their cost of living.

    Safety in lakeside 2009

  • It has happened in spades on the Baja and Yucatan peninsulas where foreigners, mostly Americans, have bragged publicly about acquiring beach front properties in places like Tulum and Ensenada for what they considered chump change forcing the locals into federal housing or dismal swamps or the barest of hillside ghettos while inducing a backbreaking increase in their cost of living.

    Safety in lakeside 2009

  • He packed his notebook and camera and set out for the west coast of Canada, north of Vancouver, a vast, rugged mosaic of islands, peninsulas and waterways at the edge of the continent.

    Land’s End The Nag 2009

  • If you want to get away from it all in one of the most beautiful places you'll ever see, head out into the Sounds, the waterways, islands and peninsulas that create the northern boundary of Marlborough.

    Meg Hemphill: A Tour of New Zealand Wine Country Meg Hemphill 2011

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