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Presque-isle
Peninsula with narrow connection to mainland / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the type of peninsula. For other uses, see Presque Isle (disambiguation).
Presque-isle (from the French presqu'île, meaning almost island) is a geographical term denoting a piece of land which is closer to being an island than most peninsulas because of its being joined to the mainland by an extremely narrow neck of land.
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