half-island

plural half-islands · alternative half island

1. A piece of land which is "halfway" an island; a byland; peninsula.

   For some time, the Midianites controlled part of the AraBa territories of Negeb desert and the half Island of Sinai.

   2010, Martin Abroquah Akanba, Revelation: The Movement of the Akan People from Kanaan to Ghana

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   Because of its half-island identity, the Korean peninsula has instilled among those who live along its coasts and on some of the over three thousand mostly small offshore islands, a long-term interest in fisheries.

   2005, Edward A. Olsen, Korea, the Divided Nation

   Therefore, полуóстров is а half-island, or peninsula. Incidentally, the word peninsula is formed in the same way, from the Latin words раеnе (almost) and insula (island).

   2011, Marita Nummikoski, Troika

   Here the Chinese navy sees little but trouble and frustration in what Chinese strategists call the First Island Chain, which, going from north to south, comprises Japan and the Ryuku^([sic – meaning Ryukyu]) Islands, the “half-island” of the Korean Peninsula, Taiwan, [...]

   2011, Robert D. Kaplan, Monsoon, page 284

2. An area of land occupying part or half of an island.

   Yunen finds the "study of the half-island" to be no better than a "half-study," one whose artificially narrow scope blocks the understanding of shared problems and the finding of shared solutions.

   2003, Eugenio Matibag, Haitian-Dominican counterpoint