Not surprisingly, the name for what feature of geography means 'almost an island' in Latin?
"access to the central highlands. The coastal region extends roughly from north of Baie d'Antongil, the most prominent feature on the Masoala Peninsula, to the far north of the island. The coastline is straight, with the exception of a bay, offering less in the way of natural harbors than the west coast. The Canal des Pangalanes, an -long lagoon formed naturally by the washing of sand up on the island by the Indian Ocean currents and by the silting of rivers, is a feature of the coast; it has been used both as a means of transportation up and down"
"Mare Marginis Mare Marginis is a lunar mare that lies on the very edge of the lunar nearside. In this location the mare is viewed almost from the edge from Earth, and is sometimes hidden from sight due to libration. The selenographic coordinates of this feature are 13.3° N, 86.1° E, and the diameter is 420 km. The name is Latin for ""Sea of the Edge"". This mare differs from most of the nearside maria; it has an irregular outline and it appears to be fairly thin. It has small circular and elongated features in the mare plains that probably"
"mystery for future solution. Mare Marginis Mare Marginis is a lunar mare that lies on the very edge of the lunar nearside. In this location the mare is viewed almost from the edge from Earth, and is sometimes hidden from sight due to libration. The selenographic coordinates of this feature are 13.3° N, 86.1° E, and the diameter is 420 km. The name is Latin for ""Sea of the Edge"". This mare differs from most of the nearside maria; it has an irregular outline and it appears to be fairly thin. It has small circular and elongated features in the"
"the northern edge of the Helmet, and Pi is along the southwest edge. The selenographic coordinates of this feature are 16.8° S, 31.6° W. The Helmet (Oceanus Procellarum) The Helmet is an informal term for a highland mass within southern Oceanus Procellarum on the near side of the Moon, southeast of the crater Herigonius. The astronauts of Apollo 16 used the term to refer to the feature during the mission. The name derives from the roughly semicircular shape of the border of the feature, resembling a helmet. The feature is topographically higher and of a higher albedo than the surrounding"
"Consequently, some geographers believed that Sumatra and Lochcach were near, or extensions of, ""Terra Australis"". In the German cursive script, ""Locach"" and ""Boeach"" look similar. A feature known as the ""Province of Beach"" or ""Boeach"" – from the Latin ""Provincia boëach"" – appears on European maps as early as the 15th century. On a map of the world published in Florence in 1489 by Henricus Martellus, the Latin name ""provincia boëach"" is given to a southern neighbour of Champa. In fact, by 1532, in an edition of Marco Polo's ""Travels"", Locach was changed to ""Boëach"", later shortened to ""Beach"". By"
"and the assaults of the barbarians it had been destroyed, and for a very long time it had been destitute of inhabitants; and a certain lake chances to be close by which was named Castoria. There is an island in the middle of the lake, for the most part surrounded by water; but there remains a single narrow approach to this island through the lake, not more than fifteen feet wide. And a very lofty mountain stands above the island, one half being covered by the lake while the remainder rests upon it."" (Procopius ""Περί κτισμάτων"" /On buildings, book IV,1.3)"
"The Helmet (Oceanus Procellarum) The Helmet is an informal term for a highland mass within southern Oceanus Procellarum on the near side of the Moon, southeast of the crater Herigonius. The astronauts of Apollo 16 used the term to refer to the feature during the mission. The name derives from the roughly semicircular shape of the border of the feature, resembling a helmet. The feature is topographically higher and of a higher albedo than the surrounding mare lava plain. Two mountains within The Helmet are informally named Herigonius Eta (η) and Herigonius Pi (π). Eta is the larger mountain on"
"to the island of ""Anfora"", next to the mouth of the small river Aussa. This lagoon, which covers an area of about 90 square kilometers and has nearly 120 islands, is divided into an eastern sector (called in Italian ""Palud de sopra"") and a western sector (""Palud de soto""). The origins of this lagoon are relatively recent. Until the fifth century the land covered all the area, as evidenced by several archaeological findings, including a Roman road, now entirely covered by water, which connected Aquileia to its port of Grado. Characteristic of the Grado lagoon is the presence of houses"
"name is speculative and it was adopted into Slavic and Finnic languages spoken around the sea, very likely due to the role of Medieval Latin in cartography. It might be connected to the Germanic word ""belt"", a name used for two of the Danish straits, the Belts, while others claim it to be directly derived from the source of the Germanic word, Latin ""balteus"" ""belt"". Adam of Bremen himself compared the sea with a belt, stating that it is so named because it stretches through the land as a belt (""Balticus, eo quod in modum baltei longo tractu per Scithicas"
"Quirinal and the river. It was low, from 10 to 15 metres above the level of the sea in antiquity, now 13 to 20, and from 3 to 8 above that of the Tiber, and of course subject to frequent inundations. Ancient writers say that there were several recognizable natural points, such as an oak grove north of the Tiber Island and the Palus Caprae, in the center of the space. In Latin, Campus Martius means ""Field of Mars"", a god highly considered in the Roman pantheon. Paul W. Jacobs III attributes the significance of Mars to his patronage of"
"mid 20th century. Cytherean Cytherean is an adjective meaning ""pertaining to Cythera"" (Greek ""Κύθηρα"", also transliterated ""Kythera"" or ""Kithira""), a small island now part of Greece, southeast of the Peloponnesus. It is also an adjective meaning ""pertaining to the planet Venus"". When planetary scientists began to have a need to discuss Venus in detail, an adjective was needed. Based on Latin principles, the correct adjectival form of the name would be Venerean. However, this term has an unfortunate similarity to the word ""venereal"" as in venereal diseases (related to ""Venerean"" as ""martial"" is to ""Martian""), and is not generally used"
"Peninsula A peninsula ( from ' ""almost” and ' ""island"") is a piece of land surrounded by water on the majority of its border while being connected to a mainland from which it extends. The surrounding water is usually understood to be continuous, though not necessarily named as a single body of water. Peninsulas are not always named as such; one can also be a headland, cape, island promontory, bill, point, or spit. A point is generally considered a tapering piece of land projecting into a body of water that is less prominent than a cape. A river which courses"
"Oestriminis In Latin poetry Oestreminis (""Extreme West"") was a name given to the territory of what is today modern Portugal and Galicia, comparable to ""Finis terrae"", the ""end of the earth"" from a Mediterranean perspective. Its inhabitants were named Oestrimni from their location. The fourth century CE Roman poet on geographical subjects, Rufus Avienus Festus, in ""Ora Maritima"" (""Seacoasts""), a poem inspired by a much earlier Greek mariners' ""periplus"", records that ""Oestriminis"" was peopled by the ""Oestrimni"", a people who had lived there for a long time, who had to run away from their native lands after an invasion of"
"and Latin ""archipelagus"") was the proper name for the Aegean Sea and, later, usage shifted to refer to the Aegean Islands (since the sea is remarkable for its large number of islands). Archipelagos may be found isolated in large amounts of water or neighbouring a large land mass. For example, Scotland has more than 700 islands surrounding its mainland which form an archipelago. Archipelagos are often volcanic, forming along island arcs generated by subduction zones or hotspots, but may also be the result of erosion, deposition, and land elevation. Depending on their geological origin, islands forming archipelagos can be referred"
"Lacus Felicitatis Lacus Felicitatis (Latin for ""Lake of Happiness"") is a small patch of the lunar surface that has been inundated by flows of lava, leaving a level patch with a lower albedo than the surrounding ground. It is located in Terra Nivium, an area of continental ground to the north of the Mare Vaporum. About 70–80 km to the northeast of this area are the Montes Haemus, along the southwestern edge of the Mare Serenitatis. The selenographic coordinates of the Lacus Felicitatis are 19.0° N, 5.0° E, and it has a maximum extent of 90 km. In outline it"
"Cydonia (region of Mars) Cydonia (, ) is a region on the planet Mars that has attracted both scientific and popular interest. The name originally referred to the albedo feature (distinctively coloured area) that was visible from Earthbound telescopes. The area borders plains of Acidalia Planitia and the Arabia Terra highlands. The area includes the regions: """"Cydonia Mensae"""", an area of flat-topped mesa-like features, """"Cydonia Colles"""", a region of small hills or knobs, and """"Cydonia Labyrinthus"""", a complex of intersecting valleys. As with other albedo features on Mars, the name Cydonia was drawn from classical antiquity, in this case from"
"feature is the crater Chevallier and to the southeast lies Carrington. Lacus Temporis Lacus Temporis (Latin for ""Lake of Time"") is a small lunar mare that is located in the northeastern quadrant of the Moon's near side. The selenographic coordinates of this feature are , and it lies within a diameter of 117 km. This small mare is composed of two large, roughly circular patches of relatively smooth surface, with a pair of small, cup-shaped craters located prominently at their intersection. Both of these regions of basaltic lava covered surface have some smaller side lobes, which are most likely impact"
"latitude 50° North to about 40° South. The western coasts of these lands, ""America"" in the south and ""Parias"" in the north, are labelled ""Terra ultra incognita"" (""Land beyond unknown"") and ""Vlterius incognita terra"" (""Land further beyond unknown""), indicating it was unknown how far westward they extended. The sea to the west of these lands is labelled ""Oceanus orientalis indianus"" (Eastern Indian Ocean), in accordance with the conclusion reached by Columbus after his third voyage of 1496-1498, when he encountered the South American mainland, which he called a ""Nuevo Mundo"" and identified with Marco Polo’s “greatest island in the world”,"
"Latin Arch Latin Arch or Latin Arc (French, Occitan: """"; Catalan: ""Arc Llatí""; Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Galician: ""Arco Latino"") is a name coined for the littoral around the northwestern Mediterranean Basin, which stretches from the bottom of the Italian Peninsula at Malta, along the eastern coast of Sicily, the west Italian coast, Southern France, the eastern Spanish coast, finishing at Gibraltar, encapsulating the Balearic Islands, Corsica, and Sardinia. This forms the shape of an arch, and seen as the core of Latin Europe. Latin Arch (""Arco Latino"") is also the formal name of an organisation of mutual cooperation between the"
"L'Isuledda The Isuledda (Sardinian for ""Little Island""), also called Isola dei Gabbiani (Italian for ""Island of Seagulls""), is an almost-island in northern Sardinia, Italy, facing the Sardinian channel. Covering an area of approximately 180,000 m², it is almost completely surrounded by the sea, and connected to the mainland by a narrow isthmus of sandy terrain, hence, despite the name, it is in fact a peninsula. It is situated close to the località of Porto Pollo and Barrabisa. The name """"Isola dei Gabbiani"""" comes from the name of the camping that occupied the whole surface up to 2008. The area is"
"one: the islands, nēsoi, versus the mainland, ēpeiros. One etymology relates ēpeir- to the same Indo-European root from which English ""over"" came. The Armenian form means ""bank, coast."" The Greek form must be some sort of ""overland,"" whether continuous land or a coast that looms over. In Latin it became continens terra, ""the continuous land,"" shortened to just continens, stem continent-. Most ships of the Archaic Period were not ocean-going. They followed the shores closely, ready to put in at the first sign of trouble. It is not surprising that the first continents were ""shores,"" as they are in Herodotus,"
"Cytherean Cytherean is an adjective meaning ""pertaining to Cythera"" (Greek ""Κύθηρα"", also transliterated ""Kythera"" or ""Kithira""), a small island now part of Greece, southeast of the Peloponnesus. It is also an adjective meaning ""pertaining to the planet Venus"". When planetary scientists began to have a need to discuss Venus in detail, an adjective was needed. Based on Latin principles, the correct adjectival form of the name would be Venerean. However, this term has an unfortunate similarity to the word ""venereal"" as in venereal diseases (related to ""Venerean"" as ""martial"" is to ""Martian""), and is not generally used by astronomers. The"
"are visible throughout the area so the surface is relatively young. Medusae Fossae Formation The Medusae Fossae Formation is a large geological unit of probable volcanic origin on the planet Mars. It is named for the Medusa of Greek mythology. ""Fossae"" is Latin for ""trenches"". Located roughly at , it straddles the highland - lowland boundary near the Tharsis and Elysium volcanic areas. The Medusae Fossae Formation lies partly in five quadrangles: the Amazonis quadrangle, the Tharsis quadrangle, the Memnonia quadrangle, the Elysium quadrangle, and the Aeolis quadrangle. The Medusae Fossae Formation is a soft, easily eroded deposit that extends"
"(pl. ""plana"") is Latin for plateau or high plain. It is a descriptor term used in planetary geology for a relatively smooth, elevated terrain on another planet or moon. The Hesperia region of Mars was named by Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli in 1877 for an intermediate-toned albedo feature centered at lat. 20°S, long. 240°W between two darker regions. Believing the dark areas were bodies of water, Schiaparelli interpreted Hesperia to be a floodplain or marsh bridging two adjacent seas, the Mare Tyrrhenum and Mare Cimmerium. Although the existence of seas on Mars had been discounted by the early 20th century,"
"fully contains the feature. Terra Nivium Terra Nivium (Latin for ""Land of Snows"") is a roughly triangular highland region on the Moon. In his ""Almagestum novum"", the notable selenographer Giovanni Riccioli named the various highland regions terrae. However, unlike his naming scheme for craters and lunar maria, his nomenclature for the continental areas of the Moon never came into common use. It lies to the north of the Mare Vaporum and is bounded along the northwest by the rugged Montes Apenninus range, and to the northeast by the less impressive Montes Haemus mountains. Portions of this area have been penetrated"
"the obverse, an island on the sea with a large bay tree towering over a town, bearing the Latin inscription, ""Non Laedor Alidor"", ""Not even perils touch it."" ""Non laedor"" is Latin for ""I am not hurt"". But the word ""alidor"" does not exist in Latin. Other medals used the Latin term for God, in the phrase ""Flavit Deus et Dissipati Sunt"", and featured on the obverse, the biblical phrase of Matthew 2, 18: In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are"
"shore. The stilt houses reminded Vespucci of the city of Venice, (, ), so he named the region """"Venezuela"","" meaning ""little Venice"" in Spanish. The suffix ""-uela"" is used as a diminutive term (e.g., ""plaza / plazuela"", ""cazo / cazuela""); some have argued that the suffix was also intended to be pejorative. (Examples of palafitos can still be found in ""Santa Rosa"", an area in the city of Maracaibo.) Although the Vespucci story remains the most popular and accepted version of the origin of the country's name, a different reason for the name comes up in the account of Martín"
"variety of plant and animal life, and particularly the formation of extensive wetlands. In addition, the additional local humidity due to evaporation usually creates a microclimate supporting unique types of organisms. The word ""littoral"" is used both as a noun and an adjective. It derives from the Latin noun ""litus, litoris"", meaning ""shore"". (The doubled 't' is a late medieval innovation and the word is sometimes seen in the more classical-looking spelling 'litoral'.) In oceanography and marine biology, the idea of the littoral zone is extended roughly to the edge of the continental shelf. Starting from the shoreline, the littoral"
"megamullion in the world. The original Spanish name of the islets is normally used for the geological formations, hence, Parece Vela megamullion, Parece Vela ridge, Parece Vela rift or Parece Vela basin. The waters around the reefs are potentially rich in oil and other mineral and fisheries resources and it lies in an area of potential military significance. At high tide, one area of the reefs is , roughly the size of a twin bed, and pokes just out of the ocean. The other is , the size of a small bedroom, and rises , about twice as high. The"
"on its southern end. The island is also called Helicopter Island because its limestone cliffs resemble the shape of a helicopter when it is viewed from a considerable distance. The island itself is small by land mass, but is rich in vegetation and has a thick, dense rainforest, along with some bare rock, that seems to rise directly out of the deep blue sea. Pangulasian has wide stretch of powdery white beaches in El Nido, which is very ideal for sun bathing, sunset viewing, and other beach activities. The waters fronting the beach are clusters of coral reefs that make"
"through a very tight meander is also sometimes said to form a ""peninsula"" within the (almost closed) loop of water. In English, the plural versions of peninsula are ""peninsulas"" and, less commonly, ""peninsulae"". Peninsula A peninsula ( from ' ""almost” and ' ""island"") is a piece of land surrounded by water on the majority of its border while being connected to a mainland from which it extends. The surrounding water is usually understood to be continuous, though not necessarily named as a single body of water. Peninsulas are not always named as such; one can also be a headland, cape,"
"comes from the Latin word ""latus"", meaning ""wide"", expressing the idea of ""flat land"" meaning the Roman Campagna. Much of Lazio is in fact flat or rolling. The lands originally inhabited by the Latini were extended into the territories of the Samnites, the Marsi, the Hernici, the Aequi, the Aurunci and the Volsci, all surrounding Italic tribes. This larger territory was still called Latium, but it was divided into Latium adiectum or Latium Novum, the added lands or New Latium, and Latium Vetus, or Old Latium, the older, smaller region. The northern border of Lazio was the Tiber river, which"
"is marked with the legends ""terra ultra incognita"" (""land beyond unknown"") in the south and in the north ""terra ulterius incognita"" (""land further beyond unknown""). There is a conjectural sea to the west of the islands. On the gores of Waldseemüller's globe of 1507, the sea to the west of the notional American west coast is named the ""Occeanus Occidentalis,"" that is, the Western or Atlantic Ocean, and where it merges with the ""Occeanus Orientalis"" (the Eastern, or Indian Ocean) is concealed by a latitude staff. The island of ""Zipangri"" (Japan) and the island of ""Hispaniola"", which Columbus considered identical,"