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Перевод: isthmus

[существительное]
перешеек ; суженное место; узкая соединительная часть

Тезаурус:

1. spotting a narrow isthmus on the map near Northton we opted for a large portage; half a kilometre would be a long way but, following our Griminish Point experience, the safer option seemed favourable.
2. The mountains swing away to the east, running into Venezuela, but the volcanic chain after a short gap in the dreary and fever-ridden jungles of the Isthmus of Panama, reappears in full vigour in Costa Rica, and extends throughout the Central American republics of Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala, which are by reputation as unstable and explosive politically as the many volcanoes that they contain.
3. From the end of the road at Bracorina, a track continues along the lochside to South Tarbet Bay where it crosses a narrow isthmus to Tarbet on Loch Nevis.
4. Balboa was constructive in his approach to the Isthmus, generally compassionate to the Indians, inventive in his plans for exploration and the furthering of Imperial aims.
5. Seven months before, while Castile was - in his intemperate view - still dithering, he had set sail from Santa Maria for the coastal town of Acla, at what Indians told him was the narrowest and least topographically inconvenient part of the Panamanian isthmus.
6. He was so distraught by the "vernal desolation of avarice" after 1809 at Lodore and Manesty that "dreading farther mischief," he made drawings of the lake margin from Stable Hills to Isthmus.
7. Those who had carried on far enough reached South America, which much later became cut off when the seas rose across the isthmus of Panama.
8. The Dannewerk at the narrowest point of the isthmus of Schleswig, reached from sea to sea, and remained as a strategic position in wars between Danes and Germans until as late as the nineteenth century.
9. President Roosevelt first contacted Colombia to get rights to build a canal through the isthmus of Panama, which was then within its boundaries.
10. Define the following geographical terms, and give an example of each - Estuary, Straits, Volcano, Isthmus, Watershed.
11. The post was offered as somewhat grudging recognition that he had been a signal success as leader of the first European colony in South America, a village called Santa Maria de la Antigua, on the Atlantic coast of the Isthmus.
12. The first is usually ignored and forgotten: it consists of farmers and peasants who live miles from anywhere in the largely inaccessible tangle of mountain and forest that make up much of the land area of the eastern end of the Central American isthmus.
13. An isthmus.