| For the same reasons sanctuaries were sited at the tip of capes or peninsulas or on an island close to the mainland. |
| But there are myriads of other discrete territories, such as deserts, mountain ranges, peninsulas, and islands, that function as bioregions. |
| The island's 3,700 acres of tropical rainforest are a biological reserve that also includes five surrounding peninsulas on the Panama mainland. |
| Huge currents flowing past islands and peninsulas generate enormous swirls in their wake, occasionally casting off giant whirlpools. |
| In English, the plurals of peninsula are peninsulas and, less commonly, peninsulae. |
| However, the cerebral hemispheres were replaced by 2 thin-walled, fluid-filled cysts with some floating islets and peninsulae corresponding to preserved cortex. |
