Charleston sits on a peninsula between two rivers and is extremely prone to flooding.
In a peninsula, the borders were relatively well controlled and the rebels had few external sources of support.
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The City on the Bay sits on a peninsula with the Pacific Ocean on one side and San Francisco Bay on the other.
Situated on a peninsula, Ponta dos Ganchos has 25 villas, which feature private verandas and comfortable hammocks for enjoying panoramic water views.
Our hotels have a fleet of cars, including Rolls-Royces, BMWs, MINI Coopers and even a Peninsula tuk-tuk at The Peninsula Bangkok.
The town of Piran is the star, with its vaulting Venetian-era belltower, orange tiled roofs and spectacular setting on a peninsula overlooking the Adriatic.
Since the property is located on a peninsula, there is only one road in and out of the neighborhood, accessible only by a security gate.
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San Francisco is just seven square miles at the tip of a peninsula surrounded by the Pacific and San Francisco Bay, which meet at the Golden Gate.
Located on a peninsula in Kanagawa Prefecture in central Japan, Miura City developed as a military port on the Pacific and a harbour providing shelter to passing ships.
Cape Cod is like a fantasised view of New England, a peninsula covered in trees aflame with colour in the weeks leading up to Halloween, shading perfect lawns and whitewashed fences.
The agency's Envisat satellite shows part of the Larsen Ice Shelf, which lies on a peninsula south of Chile, has decreased from 3, 463 square kilometers (1, 337 square miles) in March 2002 to 1, 670 square kilometers (645 square miles) today, a change the European Space Agency blames on warmer temperatures.
Qatar occupies a small peninsula that juts out into the southwest of the Gulf, bordering Saudi Arabia.
We took a detour to Shark Bay World Heritage Park, on a massive peninsula jutting into the Indian Ocean.
But where housing rose most is on a tiny peninsula in southeast China.
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Start Point Lighthouse, an 1836 structure, stands on a Devon peninsula.
"Today's announcement reflects the common commitment of the participants in the Six-Party Talks to realize a Korean Peninsula that is free of nuclear weapons, " the president said.
One such concerns mine-sweeping, a non-combat activity that Japan might be expected to undertake for American troops making a landing on, say, a Korean peninsula at war.
Over the weekend, U.S. officials informed allies negotiating a Canada-sponsored treaty to ban land mines that it was willing to sign it and drop a previous demand that a Korean Peninsula exemption be written into the document.
The land is heavily covered with mature Douglas firs and maple trees, and rolls across the base of a mountain range on the Olympic Peninsula, with a total onsite elevation change of nearly 600 feet, again huge by golf course standards.
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The Peloponnese, a large and beautiful peninsula connected to the mainland of Greece by a narrow isthmus at Corinth, draws fewer American travelers than the Aegean islands.
The two leaders met at a restored hacienda on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico, a few hours from Cancun.
Mr Kerry said that in his talks with South Korean President Park Geun-hye she had made clear her "bright vision" of a peaceful Korean peninsula free of nuclear weapons.
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Those worried that undue weight is being put on data from the tree rings of a dozen larches on the Yamal peninsula in Siberia, a topic that exercises Mr McIntyre, will be interested to see that some climate scientists shared some of their worries.
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And, for our most discerning customers, The Peninsula Hong Kong offers a unique mode of transportation, The Peninsula helicopter.
He later issued a statement saying the US and China were able "to underscore our joint commitment to the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula in a peaceful manner".
The large Hotel Lone will be on a wooded hillside near the Zlatni Rt national park on the Istrian peninsula, just a few minutes from the Adriatic sea.
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Stan was a tropical storm when it hit the peninsula, but had escalated into a Category 1 by the time it made landfall October 4 about 90 miles southeast of Veracruz, Mexico.
It produced destruction on a different scale than that seen in neighborhoods such as Breezy Point, the Rockaway Peninsula enclave where a fire ravaged dozens of homes and flooding knocked bungalows off their foundations.
Sights you can expect to gawk at in awe on your voyage include a variety of points on the Antarctic Peninsula, the South Shetland Islands, a whole mess of seals, four different types of penguins and a starkly beautiful panorama of unforgiving rock, ice, and snow.
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The British and French government, as the protectors of the Arab state, shall agree that they will not themselves acquire and will not consent to a third power acquiring territorial possessions in the Arabian peninsula, nor consent to a third power installing a naval base either on the east coast, or on the islands, of the red sea.
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