List of geographical spits
Appearance
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There are many examples of spits around the world. Some of which include:
By sea
[edit]Azov Sea
[edit]- Achuevsk Spit
- Beglitsk Spit
- Chushka Spit
- Dolgaya Spit
- Glafirovsk Spit
- Kamyshevatsk Spit
- Petrushino Spit
- Sazalniksk Spit
- Yasensk Spit
- Yeysk Spit
Baltic Sea
[edit]Skagerrak
[edit]By country
[edit]Australia
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Seri Kenangan Beach, Pekan Tutong, Tutong
- Pelumpong Spit, Serasa, Brunei-Muara
- Serasa Beach, Serasa, Brunei-Muara
Canada
[edit]- 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 [1]
- Sidney Spit, Sidney Island, British Columbia
- La Dune de Bouctouche, Bouctouche, New Brunswick[2]
- Whiffen Spit, Sooke, British Columbia
- West Pen Island, Nunavut
China
[edit]Hong Kong
[edit]- Central ferry pier
- Discovery bay
- Pui O, Lantau
- Stanley
- Tsim Sha Tsui before infilling
Croatia
[edit]- Zlatni Rat, on island Brač
Denmark
[edit]Ireland
[edit]- Inch Strand, Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry.
- Donabate Beach, Donabate, County Dublin.
- Portrane Beach, Portrane, County Dublin.
Jamaica
[edit]New Zealand
[edit]Pakistan
[edit]- Sandspi,it, Karachi Pakistan
Russia
[edit]Singapore
[edit]Spain
[edit]Turkey
[edit]- Kum Adası, Çardak, Çanakkale
- Kumada, Altınova, Balıkesir
United Kingdom
[edit]Wales
[edit]England
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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