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The Thule Land Bridge, a now-vanished land bridge between the British Isles and Greenland Torres Strait land bridge, Sahul , between modern-day West Papua and Cape York Sundaland , a 1,800,000 km 2 area which connected the islands of Southeast Asia at various points during the last 2.6 million years
Bering Land Bridge National Monument was established in 1978 by Presidential proclamation under the authority of the Antiquities Act. [9] The designation was modified in 1980 to a national preserve with the passage of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA), which would allow both subsistence hunting by local residents and ...
Animal and plant species are hypothesized to have colonized the Antilles by walking from South America over a lost land bridge. The Greater Antilles + Aves Ridge, [1] also known as GAARlandia, is a hypothesized land bridge which is proposed to have connected the Greater Antilles to South America around 33 million years ago (mya).
Beringia sea levels (blues) and land elevations (browns) measured in metres from 21,000 years ago to present. Beringia is defined today as the land and maritime area bounded on the west by the Lena River in Russia; on the east by the Mackenzie River in Canada; on the north by 72° north latitude in the Chukchi Sea; and on the south by the tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula. [1]
Based on current depths, a 55 m (180 ft) reduction in sea level would be sufficient to connect Hokkaidō with the mainland. [3]: 1135 The Sōya land bridge (宗谷陸橋) and Mamiya land bridge (間宮陸橋) — sometimes referred to jointly as the Saghalien land bridge (樺太陸橋) [4] or Sakhalin land bridge — are thus thought to have been in place during most glacial periods.
The Robert L.B. Tobin Land Bridge is a wildlife crossing over Wurzbach Parkway in San Antonio's Phil Hardberger Park that opened on December 11, 2020. [1] The project cost $23 million and is designed for both wildlife and pedestrians.
The area acts as a natural land bridge from South America to North America, which is important for species who use the bridge in migration. Due to the extensive unique habitat types, Mesoamerica contains somewhere between 7 and 10% of the world’s known species. [1] [2] [3]
Image of the Thule Land Bridge in Context with the North Atlantic. The Thule Land Bridge (also called the Thulean North Atlantic Bridge [1]) was a land bridge, now submerged beneath the Atlantic Ocean, that connected the British Isles to central Greenland. [1] The land bridge appeared during the Late Paleocene and disappeared during the early ...