List of isthmuses

An isthmus (from the Greek ἰσθμός Isthmus, plural isthmoi ) is a relatively narrow strip of land, which is bounded on both sides by water and two larger land masses together. The names isthmus or land bridge are common. The actual isthmus is the point at which the width of the strip of land is at its lowest.

An isthmus is often a suitable place for the construction of canals, as to be overcome by the channel distance here is lowest. Outstanding examples are the Corinth Canal and the Panama Canal, both of which reduce the length of qualifying shipping connections drastically, but also the historical Xerxes channel.

Previously, isthmuses favorite locations to go to other transport ships from a sea over the country. So already Thucydides (3.15 ) had testified that ships were drawn across the Isthmus of Corinth. Even Odysseus ' saying " ... ships are dragged up a path; namely all have each a frame " ( 6.264 to 265 ) could be after a popular theory, relate well to the Isthmus of Calabria ( Isthmus of Tiriolo ), where taking advantage of the rivers only a 3,500 -meter-long isthmus from the Tyrrhenian Sea to the Ionian Sea was overcome.

During the isthmus is the appropriate body to overcome land between two bodies of water, the land bridge is the appropriate body to get from one land mass to another. As a counterpart to the isthmus as a combination of land masses applies the strait or strait as narrow connection between two seas (eg the Strait of Gibraltar).

Examples

Bruny Island Kra Isthmus Tombolo Spit (landform)
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