List of geographical spits
There are many examples of spits around the world. Some of which include:
By sea
Azov Sea
- Achuevsk Spit
- Beglitsk Spit
- Chushka Spit
- Dolgaya Spit
- Glafirovsk Spit
- Kamyshevatsk Spit
- Petrushino Spit
- Sazalniksk Spit
- Yasensk Spit
- Yeysk Spit
- Belosaraysk Spit
- Berdyansk Spit
- Fedotova Spit
- Krivaya Spit
- Obytichna Spit
- Crimea (disputed between Russia and Ukraine)
Baltic Sea
By country
Australia
- Lefevre Peninsula, Adelaide, South Australia
- Letitia Spit, Fingal Head, New South Wales
- Southport Spit, Gold Coast, Queensland
- Tobias Spit, 1 km northeast of High Island, Frankland Islands, Queensland
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
Hong Kong
- Central ferry pier
- Discovery bay
- Pui O, Lantau
- Stanley
- Tsim Sha Tsui before infilling
Ireland
- Inch Strand, Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry.
- Donabate Beach, Donabate, County Dublin.
- Portrane Beach, Portrane, County Dublin.
Jamaica
New Zealand
Pakistan
Russia
Singapore
Spain
Wales
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
References
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