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a stubborn ribbon of land refusing to let two oceans hold hands.
means A narrow strip of land connecting two larger landmasses, with water on either side.
from Straight from Greek 'isthmos,' meaning a narrow passage or neck of land — the Greeks knew the type intimately, since the Isthmus of Corinth tethered the Peloponnese to the mainland. Latin borrowed it as 'isthmus,' and English took it up in the 16th century. The original sense seems to lean on the idea of a 'neck' or constriction, fittingly enough for a thin throat of earth between two seas.
- panama job
- Its severing cut a 8,000-mile ocean voyage to nothing
- land bridge
- Animals crossed continents on these for millions of years
- corinth crawl
- Greeks dragged whole ships across one for centuries
- word roots
- From Greek for narrow passage or neck
- climate maker
- Panama's isthmus reshaped global ocean currents entirely
panama canal — connects atlantic and pacific oceans, built 1881-1914, handles 14,000+ ships yearly
isthmus of suez — connects africa and asia, egypt, handles 12% of world trade
isthmus of kra — narrowest point of thailand peninsula at 44km wide, connects southeast asia to malaysia