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The sandy isthmus or tombolo "The Neck" connects North and South Bruny Island in Tasmania, Australia. An isthmus (/ ˈ ɪ s m ə s, ˈ ɪ s θ m ə s /; [1] pl.: isthmuses or isthmi) [2] is a narrow piece of land connecting two larger areas across an expanse of water by which they are otherwise separated. [3]
This list of isthmuses is an appendix to the article isthmus.The list is sorted by the region of the world in which the isthmus is located. An isthmus (/ ˈ ɪ s θ m ə s / or / ˈ ɪ s m ə s /; plural: isthmuses, or occasionally isthmi; from Ancient Greek: ἰσθμός, romanized: isthmos, lit.
The Isthmus of Panama is a land bridge whose appearance 3 million years ago enabled the Great American Biotic Interchange, in which animals and plants from the north colonized the south, and vice versa.
This glossary of geography terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts used in geography and related fields, including Earth science, oceanography, cartography, and human geography, as well as those describing spatial dimension, topographical features, natural resources, and the collection, analysis, and visualization of geographic ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; ... An isthmus is a landform connecting two larger landmasses, and separating a body of water.
The resulting map corresponded with parts of Paris that were ‘stimulating’ and “worthy of study and preservation”; [citation needed] they then drew red arrows between these parts of the city to represent the fastest and most direct connections from one place to another, preferably made by taxi, [citation needed] as it was seen as the ...
Gulf of Cazones, in southern Cuba; Gulf of Darien, in Caribbean Sea, between Colombian coast and Panama Isthmus; Gulf of the Farallones, between the Farallon Islands and the mainland coast of California, United States; Gulf of Fonseca, of the Pacific Ocean in El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua; Gulf of Gonâve, in the Caribbean Sea off the ...
An isthmus is a strip of land connecting two larger bodies of land. Isthmus may also refer to: Isthmus, a 2022 album by Irish musician Seamus O'Muineachain; Isthmus (Cos), an ancient town on the Greek island of Cos; Isthmus, a monthly newspaper in Madison, Wisconsin; An anatomically narrow part of an organ; see List of anatomical isthmi