Word info

land bridge

Noun

Meaning

(biogeography) An isthmus or other land connection between what at other times are separate land masses.

(Ireland, Britain, travel) Travel by ferry from one country, via another country by road, then by another ferry crossing to a third country. An example is from Ireland by ferry to the UK, by road to the opposite coast, then ferry to France.

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Examples

A drop in the level of the sea has caused the former Lisan Peninsula to become a land bridge dividing the sea into separate northern and southern basins. Source: Internet

A land bridge had existed between the Isle of Man and Cumbria prior to this date, although the location and opening of the land-bridge remains poorly understood. Source: Internet

At the end of the Upper Paleolithic, a group of humans crossed the Bering land bridge and quickly expanded throughout the Americas. Source: Internet

At 366 rolling acres and a pedestrian connection to the Waterfront Renaissance Trail via the artistic Confluence Land Bridge, the fort campus has been called “a green jewel in the heart of the city.” Source: Internet

South America was settled by the even-toed ungulates only in Pliocene some three million years ago when the land bridge at the Isthmus of Panama formed. Source: Internet

By reaching the Lebanese-Israeli border on Dec. 2, Iraqi Shiite militia chief Qais al-Khazali embodied the consummation of Iran’s open land bridge to the Mediterranean. Source: Internet

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