presque-isle
Sign in to savethumb|Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera, Spain right|thumbnail|260px|The Presque-isle of Quiberon, [[France]] Presque-isle (from the French ''presqu'île, meaning almost island'') is a geographical term denoting a piece of land which is closer to being an island than most peninsulas because of its being joined to the mainland by an extremely narrow neck of land.
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thumb|Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera, Spain right|thumbnail|260px|The Presque-isle of Quiberon, [[France]] Presque-isle (from the French ''presqu'île, meaning almost island'') is a geographical term denoting a piece of land which is closer to being an island than most peninsulas because of its being joined to the mainland by an extremely narrow neck of land.
==List of presque-isles== Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera in Spain Monte Argentario in Italy Quiberon in Brittany, France Saint-Malo in Brittany, France Mahia Peninsula in the Hawke's Bay Region of New Zealand Isle of Portland in Dorset, England Northmavine in Shetland, Scotland Novastoshnah, in St. Paul, Alaska Presqu'ile Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada Presque Isle, Maine, United States Presque Isle State Park in Erie, Pennsylvania, United States Presque Isle Township in Presque Isle County, Michigan Catawba Island Township, Ottawa County, Ohio Presque Isle Park, Marquette, Michigan Presqu'île of Lyon, the central part of the city of Lyon, France Vũng Tàu City, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, Vietnam
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