Similar to the desert, the peninsula contains mountains in its southern sector that are a geological extension of the Red Sea Hills, the low range along the Red Sea coast that includes Mount Catherine ( Jabal Katrinah ), the country's highest point, at 2, 642 m above sea-level.

The northern peninsula contains active volcanoes such as Mount Lokon, Mount Awu, Soputan, and Karangetang.

The peninsula contains the world's largest reserves of oil.

The Lost Peninsula is administered by Erie Township and most of the peninsula contains a marina.

Down contains two significant peninsulas: Ards Peninsula and Lecale peninsula.

A peninsula which extends into the lake, called Captain's Island, contains 178 houses, and there are another 143 houses along the lake's shores.

Rubha an Dùnain, today an uninhabited peninsula to the south of the Cuillin hills on Skye, contains the small Loch na h-Airde, which is connected to the sea by a short artificial canal.

The western part of the peninsula is covered by two mountain ranges: the Khibiny Mountains and the Lovozero Massif ; the former contains the highest point of the peninsula — Mount Chasnachorr, the height of which is.

Chalkidiki consists of a large peninsula in the northwestern Aegean Sea, resembling a hand with three " fingers " ( though in Greek these peninsulas are often referred to as " legs ") – Pallene ( now Kassandra ), Sithonia, and Agion Oros ( the ancient Acte ), which contains Mount Athos and its monasteries.

* The long southern peninsula, south of Lerwick, has a mixture of moorland and farmland and contains many important archaeological sites.

The peninsula contains many state and national parks, including Anderson Lake, Bogachiel, Dosewallips, Fort Flagler, Fort Worden, Kitsap Memorial, Lake Cushman, Manchester, Mystery Bay, Old Fort Townsend, Potlatch, Sequim Bay, Shine Tidelands, and Triton Cove state parks ; Olympic National Park ; and the Olympic National Forest.

: Located in southwestern Europe this peninsula contains Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar, and Andorra

: Located in the south of Europe, the Italian peninsula contains the states of Italy, San Marino and the Vatican City

The Kamchatka peninsula contains the volcanoes of Kamchatka, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The lake contains eight islands and one other that is sometimes an island and sometimes a peninsula.

Isaribi Park contains the highest point on the Karakuwan peninsula, a restaurant, gift shop, small playground and go-kart track are at the base.

The region contains Mauritania's part of the Cabo Blanco peninsula.

It contains some of the most fertile land on the Korean peninsula, although relatively little of it is now used for agriculture.

To the southeast of Takapuna lies the six-kilometre-long peninsula which contains the suburbs of Belmont and Devonport.

Asia contains the Indian subcontinent, Arabian peninsula, as well as a piece of the North American plate in Siberia.

The south end of the peninsula contains public areas for outdoor activities, recreation, fishing and swimming.

North-west of the District is the Akamas peninsula which contains a national park where the reproduction of the green sea turtle is a protected activity.

This constituency contains the southern half of the Furness peninsula, South Cumbria in the north-west of England.

Strabo ( 7. 2. 1, 4 and 7. 3. 1 ) states that the Cimbri still live on the peninsula ( Jutland ) where they always did, even though some of them liked to wander.

Nigeria began to withdraw its forces, comprising some 3, 000 troops, beginning 1 August 2006, and a ceremony on 14 August marked the formal handover of the northern part of the peninsula.

The population estimates on the Greeks during the 4th century BC, is approximately 3. 5 million on the Greek peninsula and 4 to 6. 5 million in the rest of the entire Mediterranean Basin, including all colonies such as those in Magna Graecia, Asia Minor and the shores of the Black Sea.

The Turks stayed in Otranto and its surrounding areas for nearly a year, but after Mehmed II's death on 3 May 1481, plans for penetrating deeper into the Italian peninsula with fresh new reinforcements were given up on and cancelled and the remaining Ottoman troops sailed back to the east of the Adriatic Sea.

Some 3, 579 islands lie adjacent to the peninsula.

The Sierra Nevada, part of the Sistema Penibético south of Granada, includes the highest mountain on the peninsula and continental Spain, Mulhacén, which rises to 3, 479 m. Other peaks in the range also surpass 3, 000 m.

* February 3, 1825 – Vendsyssel-Thy, once part of the Jutland peninsula that formed westernmost Denmark, becomes an island after a flood drowns its 1 km wide isthmus.

* October 3 – In the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, a railway between Naples and Portici ( 7. 4 km length ) is inaugurated by H. M. King Ferdinand II of Bourbon ( the first railway in the Italian peninsula ).

* February 3 – Vendsyssel-Thy, once part of the Jutland peninsula that formed westernmost Denmark, becomes an island after a flood drowns its 1 km wide isthmus.

Also known as Arabia or the Arabian subcontinent, it is the world's largest peninsula and covers 3, 237, 500 km < sup > 2 </ sup > ( 1, 250, 000 mi < sup > 2 </ sup >).

On May 3, 1535, Cortés claimed " Santa Cruz Island " ( now known as the peninsula of Baja California ), and laid out and founded the city that was to become La Paz later that spring.

The name " Crimea " is traceable to the Crimean Tatar word qırım ( my steppe, hill ), and the peninsula was known as Taurica, ( Peninsula ) of the Tauri, in antiquity ( Strabo 7. 4. 1 ; Herodotus 4. 99. 3, Amm.

They date to between 3, 500 and 2, 500 years BCE, to a period when the Arabian peninsula was subject to much more rainfall than now, and supported a flourishing civilisation in what is now desert, to the west of the mountain range along the Gulf of Oman.

Dronninglund is a town with a population of 3, 326 ( 1 January 2012 ) in Brønderslev Municipality, Region Nordjylland on the peninsula of Jutland's eastern coast in northern Denmark.

Sindal is a town with a population of 3, 090 ( 1 January 2012 ) and a former municipality ( Danish, kommune ) in Hjørring municipality in Region Nordjylland on the island of Vendsyssel-Thy at the top of the Jutland peninsula in northern Denmark.

Holsted is a town with a population of 3, 147 ( 1 January 2012 ) and a former municipality ( Danish, kommune ) in Region of Southern Denmark on the Jutland peninsula in southwest Denmark.

Ølgod is a town with a population of 3, 926 ( 1 January 2012 ) and a former municipality ( Danish, kommune ) in Varde municipality in Region of Southern Denmark on the Jutland peninsula in southwest Denmark.

Løgumkloster (; both mean ' Løgum monastery '), is a town in Tønder municipality in Region of Southern Denmark on the Jutland peninsula in south Denmark with a population of 3, 665 ( 1 January 2012 ).

Skærbæk () is a town with a population of 3, 098 ( 1 January 2012 ) and a former municipality ( Danish, kommune ) on the coast of Tønder municipality in Region of Southern Denmark on the Jutland peninsula in south Denmark.

Great Lakes Relay-Great Lakes Relay A 275 mile 3 day / 2 night event through the northern half of Michigan's lower peninsula.

However, Haplogroup D4 is found at very low frequently in Korean ( 2, 3 %) therefore there was an existence of Japanese immigration in Korea peninsula for a period of a time.

Japanese forces started a siege of the peninsula on January 7, 1942, and launched an all-out assault on April 3, a few months after the Battle of the Points.

The range originally stretched further to Anatolia, the Crimean peninsula and the Balkans, where they had already disappeared 3, 000 years ago.