Description: Foreword to the 1993 Edition Introduction I. Coast Lines 1. Distorted Coast Lines A Map of the World of 1589 2. Projections and Protuberances Gulf of Mexico 3. Peninsulas The Peninsula of Denmark 4. Peninsulas The Peninsula of Florida 5. Peninsulas The Peninsula of Korea 6. Peninsulas The Peninsula of Tunisia, Africa 7. Peninsulas The Taranaki and Banks Peninsulas, New Zealand 8. Peninsulas The Peninsula of Cornwall, England 9. Peninsulas Saugeen Peninsula and Door Peninsula, Great Lakes Region 10. Peninsulas Keweenaw Point, Lake Superior 11. Two Similar Peninsulas Bayonne Peninsula in New York Harb Digby Neck, Nova Scotia 12. Peninsula Croton Point, Hudson River 13. Some Coastal Irregularities The Hudson River Shore Line 14. Promontories and Points Flamborough Head, England 15. Promontories and Points Spurn Head, Engl The Skaw, Denmark; Hel Peninsula, Poland 16. Promontories and Points. Hooked Points Cape Cod; Monomoy Po Sandy Hook; Rockaway Point 17. Promontories Bill of Portland, Engl Monte Argentario, Italy 18. Simple, Regular Coasts Argentina; Hudson Bay; Israel; Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia 19. Coast Lines with Barrier Islands Texas and Florida 20. Coast Lines with Interrupted Barrier Islands Long Isl New Jersey; Delaware-Maryland-Virginia Peninsula 21. Embayed or Estuarine Coasts The Chesapeake Bay Region: the Northwest Coast of Spain 22. Fiord Coasts Norway, Alaska, Chile, New Zealand 23. Straits The Narrows, New York Harbor 24. Straits The Straits of Dover II. Islands 25. Linear Islands and Peninsulas The Maine Coast; Southwest Irel the Dalmatian Coast 26. Linear Islands Anticosti in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; Öoland and Gotland in the Baltic Sea 27. Linear Islands Long Island, New York 28. Arcuate Islands Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket 29. Elliptical Islands The Islands of Boston Bay 30. Rectangular and Straight-Sided Islands Puerto Rico, Cuba, Haiti; Corsica and Sardinia; Madagascar 31. Zigzag Islands The Dalmatian Islands in the Adriatic Sea; Belcher Islands in Hudson Bay 32. Island Chains or Island Arcs The Aleutians and Other Island Arcs of the Pacific 33. Islands. A Double Chain The Lesser Antilles 34. Oceanic Islands Atolls of the Pacific Ocean 35. Oceanic Islands The Hawaiian Islands 36. Isolated Islands Sable Island off Nova Scotia III. Rivers General Remarks 37. River Embayments The Delaware (Delaware Bay); the Susquehanna (Chesapeake Bay), and the Potomac 38. River Locations The Missouri and the Ohio 39. River Locations Piedmont Rivers. The San Joaquin, the Po, and the Danube Rivers 40. River Patterns. Parallel Rivers The Rivers of Northern France 41. River Patterns. Parallel Rivers Rivers of the Atlantic Seaboard; Some Rivers of Nebraska 42. River Patterns. More Parallel Rivers Yazoo Type. The Yazoo and Mississippi Rivers 43. River Patterns. Trellis Rivers Pennsylvania 44. River Patterns. Rectangular Rivers The Adirondack Mountains 45. River Patterns. Radial Rivers Mount Rainier 46. River Patterns. More Radial Rivers Southern France 47. River Patterns. Centripetal (Center-Flowing) Streams Northern France 48. River Patterns. Ring-Like or Annular Rivers South Dakota 49. River Patterns. Irregularity Branching or Dendritic Streams Western Pennsylvania 50. Interrupted or "Lost" Rivers Southern Indiana; Yugoslavia 51. More Interrupted Rivers Nevada; Mexico; Persia; Australia 52. Water Gaps Delaware Gap; Susquehanna Water Gaps 53. Water Gaps and Wind Gaps The Blue Ridge, Virginia 54. More Water Gaps Columbia River Dalles Across the Cascade Mountains; Sevier River Gap, Utah 55. River Sources. Hot Springs a

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