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A spit (cognate with the word for a rotisserie bar) or sandspit is a deposition bar or beach landform off coasts or lake shores. It develops in places where re-entrance occurs, such as at a cove's headlands , by the process of longshore drift by longshore currents.
Spit – Coastal bar or beach landform deposited by longshore drift; Strait – Naturally formed, narrow, typically navigable waterway that connects two larger bodies of water; Strandflat – Type of landform found in high-latitude areas; Stack – Geological landform consisting of a steep and often vertical column or columns of rock, and stump
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
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A peninsula can also be a headland, cape, island promontory, bill, point, or spit. [5] A point is generally considered a tapering piece of land projecting into a body of water that is less prominent than a cape. [6] In English, the plural of peninsula is peninsulas or, less commonly, peninsulae. A river which courses through a very tight ...
Spit (archaeology), a term for a unit of archaeological excavation; Spit (landform), a section of land that extends into a body of water; Spit or rotisserie, a rotating device used for cooking by roasting over an open fire; Spit, another word for saliva. Spitting, the act of forcibly expelling saliva from the mouth
Sandspit (landform), a deposition landform found off coasts Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Sandspit .
The southern part of the spit viewed from Arabat Fortress Aerial view of the spit between the Syvash lagoons (left) and Sea of Azov (right). The Arabat Spit (Ukrainian: Арабатська коса; Russian: Арабатская коса; Crimean Tatar: Arabat beli) or Arabat Arrow is a barrier spit that separates the large, shallow, salty Syvash lagoons from the Sea of Azov.