the person naming land formations really killed it with archipelago. and truly shit the bed with isthmus

Cape is clean. Promontory is suggestive.

Bajadas and arroyos are lovely.

as an isthmus dweller it is the mus

Isthmus sounds like the lead in to a sneeze. Not their best work. I’m also a fan of lagoon and butte

I struggled with how to pronounce archipelago the entire time I was growing up. It wasn't until fairly recently that I figured out the H is silent.

& had to be a perv to look at it & call it a "PENInSula."

ravine is the city mouse. gully is the country mouse.

Peninsula is good too.

Archipelago is one of our loveliest words.

peninsula rolls right off the tongue