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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
Pages in category "Spits of Canada" ... Long Point, Ontario; P. Point Pelee National Park This page was last edited on 19 August 2017, at 16:51 (UTC) ...
The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources classifies Long Point as a Macrosite, an area that contains numerous ecological or geological significant zones, [6] such as Areas of Natural and Scientific Interest. Inner Long Point Bay covers approximately 78 km 2 (30 sq mi) between the spit and Lake Erie's north shore. The Inner Bay is a diverse ...
The longest spit in a freshwater body of water is Long Point, Ontario, which extends approximately 32 km (20 mi) into Lake Erie. Farewell Spit in New Zealand , at 32 km (20 mi), in the north-west area of South Island , is believed to be caused by the strong prevailing winds and currents, bringing sand eroded from the Southern Alps of the South ...
The Leslie Street Spit, or officially the Outer Harbour East Headland, is a human-made headland in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, extending from the city's east end in a roughly southwesterly direction into Lake Ontario. It is about 5 kilometres (3 mi) long.
Spits of the United Kingdom (2 C, 1 P) Spits of the United States (19 P) This page was last edited on 1 August 2020, at 07:45 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
List of geographical spits From a page move : This is a redirect from a page that has been moved (renamed). This page was kept as a redirect to avoid breaking links, both internal and external, that may have been made to the old page name.
About half of the section "Spits Around the World" appears to be complete nonsense. For instance "Spits in the UK are caused by prevailing southwesterly winds, which give the spits their direction." What about Orford Ness, where the overall longshore drift is from the North (though there are some complexities to this generalisation)? Then we ...