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THE attention of those interested in physical geography has long been attracted to the remarkable fact that almost all the great peninsulas of the earth trend southwards, and that the majority, at any rate, have an island, or group of islands, at their southern extremity. Thus Mrs. Somerville, calling attention to this, says: —“The tendency of the land to assume a peninsular form is very remarkable, and it is still more so that almost all the peninsulas trend to the south, circumstances that depend on some unknown cause which seems to have acted very extensively. The continents of South America, Africa, and Greenland, are peninsulas on a gigantic scale, all directed to the south; the peninsula of India, the Indo-Chinese peninsula; those of Korea, Kamtchatka. Florida, California, and Aliaska, in North America; as well as the European peninsulas of Norway and Sweden, Spain and Portugal, Italy and Greece, observe the same direction.…
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LUBBOCK, J. On the Southern Tendency of Peninsulas. Nature 15, 273 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/015273b0
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