List of geographical spits

There are many examples of spits around the world. Some of which include:

By sea

Azov Sea

Russia
  • Achuevsk Spit
  • Beglitsk Spit
  • Chushka Spit
  • Dolgaya Spit
  • Glafirovsk Spit
  • Kamyshevatsk Spit
  • Petrushino Spit
  • Sazalniksk Spit
  • Yasensk Spit
  • Yeysk Spit
Ukraine
  • Belosaraysk Spit
  • Berdyansk Spit
  • Fedotova Spit
  • Krivaya Spit
  • Obytichna Spit
  • Arabat Spit
  • Tuzla Spit

Baltic Sea

  • Curonian Spit, Russia/Lithuania
  • Hel Spit, Poland
  • Priwall, Germany
  • Vistula Spit, Poland/Russia

Skagerrak

  • Grenen, Denmark

By country

Australia

  • Lefevre Peninsula, Adelaide, South Australia
  • Letitia Spit, Fingal Head, New South Wales
  • Sir Richard Peninsula, Goolwa, South Australia
  • Southport Spit, Gold Coast, Queensland
  • Tobias Spit, 1 km northeast of High Island, Frankland Islands, Queensland
  • Younghusband Peninsula, Coorong, South Australia

Brunei

  • Seri Kenangan Beach, Pekan Tutong, Tutong
  • Pelumpong Spit, Serasa, Brunei-Muara
  • Serasa Beach, Serasa, Brunei-Muara

Canada

  • Toronto Islands (former spit, now detached), Toronto, Ontario
  • Leslie Street Spit, man-made spit created as part of new harbour project
  • Long Point, Ontario
  • Point Pelee, Ontario on Lake Erie
  • Rondeau Provincial Park - a crescentric sand spit on Lake Erie
  • Blackie Spit (east section of the Crescent Beach), South Surrey, British Columbia
  • Sidney Spit, Sidney Island, British Columbia
  • La Dune de Bouctouche, Bouctouche, New Brunswick
  • Whiffen Spit, Sooke, British Columbia
  • West Pen Island, Nunavut

China

Hong Kong

  • Central ferry pier
  • Discovery bay
  • Pui O, Lantau
  • Stanley
  • Tsim Sha Tsui before infilling

Croatia

Zlatni Rat, Croatia
  • Zlatni Rat, on island Brač

Denmark

Grenen, Denmark
  • Grenen, the tip of the Jutland peninsula

Ireland

Jamaica

  • Palisadoes, Kingston, Jamaica

New Zealand

  • Aramoana, Otago
  • Farewell Spit, South Island

Pakistan

  • Sandspit, Karachi Pakistan

Russia

  • Russkaya Koshka, Chukotka

Singapore

  • Changi Beach
  • Tanjong Rhu

Spain

  • Cadiz, Andalusia
  • La Manga, Mar Menor, Region of Murcia

Turkey

  • Kum Adası, Çardak, Çanakkale
  • Kumada, Altınova, Balıkesir

United Kingdom

Wales

  • Conwy Morfa, Conwy
  • Fairbourne Spit, Fairbourne, Gwynedd

England

  • Blakeney Point, Norfolk
  • Calshot Spit, Hampshire
  • Chesil Beach, Dorset
  • Dawlish Warren, Devon
  • Hengistbury Head, Dorset
  • Hurst Spit, Hampshire
  • Mudeford Spit, Dorset
  • Orford Ness, Suffolk
  • Spurn Head, Yorkshire
  • Westward Ho! Pebbleridge, Devon

United States

  • Bodie Island and the Currituck Banks, on both sides of the border between Virginia and North Carolina, the northernmost of the Outer Banks
  • Clatsop Spit, Oregon
  • Deveaux Bank, South Carolina
  • Dungeness Spit, Sequim, Washington, the longest natural sand spit in the United States.
  • Ediz Hook, Port Angeles, Washington
  • Fenwick Island, on both sides of the border of Delaware and Maryland
  • Homer Spit, Homer, Alaska
  • Kotzebue, Alaska
  • Long Point, Provincetown, Massachusetts, at the tip of Cape Cod
  • Minnesota Point, Duluth, Minnesota Also referred to by locals as "Park Point", it's also said to be the world's largest freshwater natural spit.
  • Presque Isle, Erie, Pennsylvania
  • Provincetown Spit, Massachusetts
  • Sandy Hook, New Jersey
  • The Spit, Scituate, Massachusetts
  • Willoughby Spit, Norfolk, Virginia

Ukraine

References

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