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peninsula

noun as in projecting mass of land

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Copenhagen airport, followed by several Danish airports and military sites on the Jutland peninsula, faced drone disruption last week.

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Landslides have been occurring on the peninsula for thousands of years, the geological record shows.

Sanabria Lake, the largest glacial body of water in the Iberian peninsula, is a major local attraction, surrounded by a natural park.

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Discovered in a rather remote seaside region of the Peloponnesian peninsula, rather than an established Greek artistic center, the Pylos Combat Agate might have been made in Crete, a prominent trading partner.

He later became secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council, during a period when pro-Russian separatists began fighting in eastern Ukraine - and when Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the annexation of the Crimea peninsula.

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