Both Uses of
peninsula
in
Moby Dick
- The long and narrow peninsula of Malacca, extending south-eastward from the territories of Birmah, forms the most southerly point of all Asia.†
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- In a continuous line from that peninsula stretch the long islands of Sumatra, Java, Bally, and Timor; which, with many others, form a vast mole, or rampart, lengthwise connecting Asia with Australia, and dividing the long unbroken Indian ocean from the thickly studded oriental archipelagoes.†
Chpt 85-87
Definition:
a large mass of land projecting into a body of water -- especially if connected to the larger land mass by an isthmus