Question

A landmass bounded by sea on the three sides is referred to as ________.

A) Coast

B) Isthmus

C) Island

D) Peninsula

Answer 1

Hint:  India is a great example of how it is surrounded by the Arab Sea to the west, the Indian Ocean to the south, and the Bay of Bengal to the east.

Complete answer:

A landmass bounded by the sea on three sides is referred to as Peninsula. It is surrounded by water on the majority of its border while being connected to a mainland from which it extends. The surrounding water is continuous in nature and it doesn’t necessarily have to be a single water body. There are various names for a Peninsula like headland, cape, point, fork, spit etc.

The word comes from the Latin word ‘paene insula’ which means ‘almost an island’. In the USA, Florida is the most obvious peninsula. It’s not always that peninsulas are skinny little bits of land. Entire Europe is sometimes considered a large peninsula.

Now let us analyze the given options:

Coast: The coast is defined as the region where the sea or ocean meets the ground, or as a line that forms the boundary between the ocean or lake and the land thus this option is wrong.

Isthmus: a narrow strip of land with sea on either side, forming a link between two larger areas of land.

Island: The island is the land that is surrounded by water from all directions thus this option is wrong too.

Peninsula: The land which is surrounded by water from three sides is known as peninsula thus this option is correct.

Hence, the correct answer is option (D).

Note: It is also often said that a river flowing through a very tight meander forms a "peninsula" within the (almost closed) water circle. The plural versions of the peninsula in English are peninsulas and, less often, peninsulas.