Continuing our totally unasked for topography presentation, a peninsula is a piece of land that refuses to be surrounded and connects itself to land using an isthmus, which is part of the jutting out, but keeps the smaller auxiliary piece of land connected to the main one, which, if you’re in Florida, is Georgia, except that there is no isthmus there, unless you count Interstate 95, which I don’t and you shouldn’t either. If you have a horn, like Africa does, it will be in the east and much broader like a cape, which Africa also has, as does Canaveral, which was once a Kennedy and is now estranged, like Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has a neck, which is another name for an isthmus, especially if he were a continent which he, for all intents and purposes, is. While we’re on that subject, other peninsulas have been named after body parts, i.e., the head (as in headland), finger, and the aforementioned neck, which, now that I think about it, I’m not sure Arnold has. I am also thankful that the colon has no geographical counterpart. If your projection of land into water is mostly a gigantic rock, it may be a promontory, but it could be a naze if it is flat and marshy, which I am told the Norwegians get off on when they visit the Stiftelsen Lindesnes fyrmuseum. So the takeaway from this can be summed up in one simple point, a philosophy shared by all peninsulas: “No land is an island.” Next time--islands
Posted on: Sun, 06 Oct 2013 22:59:27 +0000
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