Crossword Knowledge 6 - peninsula and archipelago
Following on from yesterday's stony theme. Today's broadens from stone to geographical features. Clue: Przylądek w pd. Chile . Firstly, pd. is an abbreviation of południe (south). Przylądek is a cape as in a large / high headland that juts out into a body of water. An example of this, found in south Chile, is Cape Horn. Answer: Horn. In working this one out, I learned that another word for a headland in Polish is cypel , which is a very narrow headland, like Hel on the Baltic coast of Poland. And for a peninsula, the polish word would be półwysep . As far as I can see in both English and Polish, peninsula / półwysep is a broad term for a landform projecting into a body of water that covers cypel and przylądek Elsewhere in the crossword book, there was a clue involving archipelago. The Polish word, archipelag , being very similar. I was aware that it described a collection of numerous small islands, but not much more than that. The word seems t...