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East Pen Island, sometimes referred to shortly as Pen Island, is one of several uninhabited Canadian arctic islands in Nunavut, Canada located within southwestern Hudson Bay. It is part of the Pen Islands, though West Pen Island is more properly termed a spit , rather than an island.
Falkland Islands Explorer Map. Scale 1:365000. Ocean Explorer Maps, 2007; Falklands Topographic Map Series. Scale 1:50000, 29 sheets. DOS 453, 1961-1979; Falkland Islands. Scale 1:643000 Map. DOS 906. Edition 3-OS, 1998; Map 500k--xm20-4. 1:500000 map of Weddell Island and part of West Falkland. Russian Army Maps (for the world)
Long Island was once a peninsula connected to North America during the great Ice Ages, and includes two large peninsulas at its east end: the South Fork and the North Fork. Cumberland Head; Coney Island was an island until it was expanded through land reclamation into the Coney Island Creek, thus becoming a peninsula.
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The Arctic Archipelago, also known as the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, is an archipelago lying to the north of the Canadian continental mainland, excluding Greenland (an autonomous territory of Denmark, by itself, much larger than the combined area of the archipelago) and Iceland (an independent country)
For example, the water level may change, which causes a peninsula to become an island during high water levels. [25] Similarly, wet weather causing higher water levels make peninsulas appear smaller, while dry weather make them appear larger. [26] Sea level rise from global warming will permanently reduce the size of some peninsulas over time. [27]
Highlighted map from 1890s indicating the Arginusae islands (now Garip Islands and Kalem Island). Original map by Heinrich Kiepert (1818–1899) In classical antiquity , the Arginusae ( Ancient Greek : Ἀργινοῦσαι Arginousai ) were three islands off the Dikili Peninsula on the coast of modern-day Turkey , famous as the site of the ...
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