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land bridge
noun as in continental shelf
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The Sinai is the land bridge between Africa and Asia; it is also the gateway to Gaza and Israel from Egypt.
A little geological turnover, a swampy land bridge formed in the right spot, and the lizards began to wander up beacon valley.
They may have come into America across the Siberia-Alaska land bridge a million or so years ago.
The destruction of this old land-bridge, he thinks, must have taken place before the commencement of the Glacial period.
The new-comers had migrated from some centre of culture in North Africa, and appear to have crossed over the Italian land-bridge.
The easiest crossing to Britain was over the English Channel land-bridge.
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On this page you'll find 8 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to land bridge, such as: continental platform, continental slope, offshore rights, submarine canyon, territorial waters, and three-mile limit.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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