Noun:

Tombolo,

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A tombolo is a sandy isthmus.

A tombolo, from the Italian tombolo, meaning 'pillow' or 'cushion', and sometimes translated as ayre, is a deposition landform.

landforms consisting of an island that is connected to land only by a tombolo: a spit of beach materials connected to land at both ends.

St Ninian's Isle is a small tied island connected by the largest tombolo in the UK to the south-western coast of the Mainland, Shetland, in Scotland.

Silver Strand, or simply The Strand, is a low, narrow, sandy isthmus or tombolo 7 miles (11 km) long in San Diego County, California partially within the.

A tombolo is an isthmus that consists of a spit or bar, and a strait is the sea counterpart.

north, and connected to Robert Island to the south by a 250 m long moraine tombolo.

formed a tombolo, a natural bridge made of different sized rocks and sand – connecting Sharp Island and Kiu Tau (橋頭).

At high tide the tombolo is submerged.

Louisa Island is an island with a short sandy tombolo, located adjacent to the south-western coast of Tasmania, Australia.

The beach is often identified as a tombolo, although research into the geomorphology of the area has revealed that.

beaches such as the Lang Ayre in Northmavine, Shetland, spits, bars or tombolos, but only if formed of shingle.

in northern Greenland, located at the eastern end of Bylot Sound by a tombolo known as Uummannaq, near the current site of the American Thule Air Base.

It was in fact an island earlier in the Holocene, before a tombolo formed joining Paraguaná to the mainland.

Quiberon is connected to the mainland by a tombolo.

The island is connected to a smaller island, Siu Tsan Chau (小鏟洲), by a tombolo.

levels resulted in the island becoming attached to the mainland via a tombolo.

A tombolo is an isthmus that consists of a spit or bar.